NY Times article on Martinez: He Was Robbed, Then Became Champion

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  • DoktorSleepless
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    NY Times article on Martinez: He Was Robbed, Then Became Champion

    Apparently he's made more money from his businesses and investments than he has from boxing. Pretty cool.
    Another story: After Martinez, now 37, became an unlikely boxing champion, after years of fighting nobodies for nothing, he partnered with a financial adviser, Miguel Angel de Pablos. They took Martinez’s boxing money and started a security consultation company. They invested in businesses and markets. They entered the volatile world of boxing management.

    The thread, throughout, remained consistent. The fearful became the fearsome, the poor boy a rich man. And the cyclist who accidentally became a boxer, who obtained his titles and athletic acclaim far later in life than most, has made more money from investments than from fighting, has made millions outside the ring, according to his advisers.
    The whole article is good.
    http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/17/sp...1&pagewanted=1
    There's also an article in the Wall Street Journal about Martinez wanting to become a comedian.
  • -Spinal-
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    DiBella first realized the poverty Martinez came from when the fighter showed him a picture in which Martinez wore neither shirt nor shoes. His mother, Martinez told DiBella, made the pants he wore in the picture from a tablecloth.

    Damn that's just sad. Wow. I just pictured myself with pants made of tablecloth.

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    • Medved
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      #3
      Originally posted by EngorgedW/Blood
      DiBella first realized the poverty Martinez came from when the fighter showed him a picture in which Martinez wore neither shirt nor shoes. His mother, Martinez told DiBella, made the pants he wore in the picture from a tablecloth.

      Damn that's just sad. Wow. I just pictured myself with pants made of tablecloth.
      I was wearing tablecloth pants before they were popular..... by a brand u never heard of cuz they dont sell out man

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      • Mazatleco17
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        #4
        I got nothing but respect for Sergio.

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        • DoktorSleepless
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          #5
          At the Parlour on West 30th Street, Martinez held out his left hand, the middle knuckle smaller than the others, as if Martinez had sanded it away. He first broke the knuckle in 1996. Doctors did not discover the injury for four years, despite repeated pain that almost forced Martinez to retire. An X-ray after the Margarito bout revealed the break, which Martinez said he fixed with surgery after faking forms on his ex-girlfriend’s insurance.
          Pictures of his knuckles.





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          • Medved
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            #6
            ^ Are you related to sergio or his promoter?

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            • mushahadeen
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              #7
              I feel robbed watching his fights.

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              • Check_hooks
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                #8
                That still doesn't give him the right to duck and dodge Pirog and call out fighters 2 weight classes below him

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                • DoktorSleepless
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                  #9
                  Originally posted by Medved
                  ^ Are you related to sergio or his promoter?
                  No, just a sergiosexual. And I'm hyped up about the new fight. The rate of threadmaking will fall tommorrow.
                  Last edited by DoktorSleepless; 03-17-2012, 03:34 PM.

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                  • RA-Box
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                    #10
                    Props to the Doc. Always has great posts.

                    And to the guy who posted earlier, refusing a guaranteed robbery in russia is not ducking and your hero is a fraud 154 champ.

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