Comments Thread For: Loss to Martinez made Barker much more confident

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NEW YORK — The last time Darren Barker came from England to the United States to fight for a middleweight title, he wasn’t even certain he could compete at boxing’s elite level.

Barker was undefeated before he fought Sergio Martinez in October 2011, but his 23-0 record had been built against an unremarkable group of opponents almost exclusively in Great Britain. It wasn’t until the previously untested contender’s strong showing against the heavily favored southpaw from Argentina that Barker began believing he is a championship-caliber fighter.

The London resident thinks the considerable confidence boost he got from that 11th-round knockout defeat will help him defeat Daniel Geale and leave Revel in Atlantic City with a middleweight title Saturday night. [Click Here To Read More]

[TheMexHurricane]

@ "Loss To Martinez Made Barker Much More Confident"

Well then he should try to get another a*s whupping so he'll be supremely confident.

[mrbigshot]

@ "Loss To Martinez Made Barker Much More Confident"

Well then he should try to get another a*s whupping so he'll be supremely confident.

are you an idiot, he put in a competitive fighter with the worlds best middleweight and he held his own! come on man thats called having nmore belief in yourself.

talk about being dumb!

[danktrees]

are you an idiot, he put in a competitive fighter with the worlds best middleweight and he held his own! come on man thats called having nmore belief in yourself.

talk about being dumb!

define competitive? he may have caught martinez with an uppercut to make his nose bleed but other than that i dont think anyone at any point thought he was winning or going to win. he also didnt come close to winning, since that's the case i dont see how it was competitive. he did better than expected but that's about it. if you compare his performance against martinez with his other performances you see he was a lot more defensive than normal. not saying that's right or wrong but obviously you'll last longer if you stick more to defense than offense. ask narvaez about that. he went a full 12 rounds with donaire.

he also got ktfo of commission for a while from that fight and couldnt even keep his balance/equilibrium by the end of it, not so sure he held his own.