Comments Thread For: Sergio Martinez Responds To Attack By Former Coach

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Gabriel Sarmiento, the former trainer of WBC middleweight champion Sergio Martinez, was recently paroled after being sentenced to eight years, in 2011, for a physical confrontation that took place in a nightclub in Guadalajara in 2008. When Saermiento was captured by Interpol in 2011, his brother Pablo Sarmiento took over as trainer.

Now Gabriel, who says he was never involved in the nightclub beating, is now talking with the press and says he was betrayed by his brother, and Martinez. Gabriel said he fled Spain when the conviction was coming down, just to continue training Martinez. But when he was finally jailed - he says Martinez and Pablo turned their backs on him. He also said he never agreed, or gave permission, for his brother Pablo to take over as the head trainer. [Click Here To Read More]

[mathed]

Man, Sarmiento sounds very bitter. How can he not understand that you can't be a trainer while you are in prison? He sounds jealous of Sergio's success with his brother as head trainer as if he was secretly hoping for failure after he went to prison.

[feroth]

wtf his coach makes no sense with that comment...what did he want him to do not hire a new trainer? isn't it better that he kept it in the family and let his brother take over?

The only ****ed up part is that Martinez and his brother didn't even go visit him in jail not sure how that works

[Coyotefury]

Wow didnt Sergio say in an interview that even though Gabriel was in jail Martinez was still giving him a cut as a trainer, so he would have money when he would get out.

[Doctor_Tenma]

Great response by Martinez, as for the visitation, that's kind of fucked up what whatever I guess...

[_original_]

Gabriel sounds irrational expecting Martinez to stop boxing until he's released. Guess what buddy, the world goes on with or without you, and nobody forced you to commit those crimes.

[GrandpaBernard]

should he have been locked up in Spain

[#1Assassin]

Man, Sarmiento sounds very bitter. How can he not understand that you can't be a trainer while you are in prison? He sounds jealous of Sergio's success with his brother as head trainer as if he was secretly hoping for failure after he went to prison.

i dont think he seems bitter at all, but hes mad and i think hes got a right to be.

its not about sergio getting someone else to work his corner while hes in jail, thats obvious. its about how he treated him as a friend.

gabriel not only made sergio the fighter he is today, he took him in when he came to spain with no job or money. let him live in his house, had his wife cook for him. in fact i think his wife cooked for sergio while he was in camp up until gabby fled the US.

gabriel considered them to be brothers, all three of them. then he gets into trouble and both sergio and pablo completely ignore him and dont even make the trip from oxnard to LA to visit him once. they just move on like he never existed and keep working by themselves without so much as a conversation. they didnt even talk to him about being replaced then they go on TV and lie about gabriel giving them the green light.

even now all sergio is talking about is the professional side of things "i cant have a trainer who is in jail", well thats obvious but how about being there for your friend whos in jail? how about visiting the man who took you in when you came to spain with nowhere to go, treated you like family and made you a champion.

to work with someone for about 10 years thinking you are friends and then have them act like it was just business all along and now that you cant help them you are just useless to them. to help someone whos got nothing, turn them into a millionaire and see them ignore you when you are at your darkest hour. i for one cant blame gabriel for feeling betrayed.

[Los Zetas]

Am I missing something? The guy isn't mad that Sergio didn't train with him, how could he? But he is upset that he never got visited.


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[Nicolino]

Fact is Sergio's corners have looked like beginners since Gabriel left. Gabriel is complaining probably because he was told that he wouldn't join the team anymore, which i think is at least disrespectful because Sergio wouldn't have achieve what he is now without Gabriel Sarmiento.