What's up with Ward and Martinez??

[BafanaBafana]

Martin Murray didn't do either. Go figure.

Martinez wouldn't be stripped of his title fighting Martin Murray. Further, being a British opponent, the Murray fight is much more marketable in Argentina where Martinez's team are hoping to sell out a soccer stadium.

[mathed]

Not true.

Martinez fought top fighters in 2011 and rightfully won FOTY.

After that, his run has been boarderline atroscious with the likes of Darren Barker and soon to be Martin Murray level fighters.

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1 Sergio Martinez 1084 50(28)-2(1)-2

1997 37 southpaw

Oxnard, California, USA

2 Gennady Golovkin 663 25(22)-0-0

2006 30 orthodox

Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

3 Daniel Geale 659 28(15)-1-0

2004 31 orthodox

Mt Annan, New South Wales, Australia

4 Peter Quillin 555 28(20)-0-0

2005 29 orthodox

Brooklyn, New York, USA

5 Felix Sturm 530 37(16)-3(1)-2

2001 33 orthodox

Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

6 Julio Cesar Chavez Jr 483 46(32)-1-1

2003 26 orthodox

Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico

7 Matthew Macklin 409 29(20)-4(2)-0

2001 30 orthodox

Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom

8 Dmitry Pirog 409 20(15)-0-0

2005 32 orthodox

Gelendzhik, Russia

9 Sam Soliman 395 42(17)-11(1)-0

1997 39 orthodox

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

10 Martin Murray 347 25(11)-0-1

2007 30 orthodox

St Helens, Merseyside, United Kingdom

11 Darren Barker 339 24(15)-1(1)-0

2004 30 orthodox

Barnet, London, United King

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Somehow the guys he beat got respect from some type of ranking authority. How many of the other guys in this list have fought the other names on this list? Sturm, Geale, Macklin, and Murray are the only other ones to even fight top 10 competition at MW period. Chavez, 3G, Quillin haven't done shizz....