Should Martinez retire Now

[Foreign Soil]

Yes he is finished. His timing and hand to eye coordination is gone. Also, he lacked the energy to move his hands enough and not to mention his lost of reflexes and stamina. He looked very old and rusty in there tonight. He threw fewer punches tonight and landed even fewer of them when Cotto is not the hard to find and hit. There's no need for him to risk further damage and permanent injury to his body by prolonging his career. It's time for him to retire.

I wouldn't doubt that his timing being off was due to barely getting any real sparring in due to his knees. I have serious doubts he could train to be near 100% again, and with that in mind, he definitely needs to hang them up. His mobility was absolute garbage. Pretty shameful to take that fight.. but they were banking on Cotto being the smaller man, that's all.

[mathed]

yeah, as a serious supporter of his, it was clear to see he was done as a top fighter after that first round finished. i think i should be respectable to cotto and give him his props for actually throwing the shots that wobbled and dropped martinez, but at the end of the night, i really think any top 5 154/160 lber would've defeated martinez tonight. he is physically done as a fighter. i don't want to sound "butthurt", but that's really what it looked like. hopefully he hangs them up after tonight. enjoy the money and fame he's achieved from this career. sucks to see him go out like this, but it was a good run. i really enjoyed supporting him and watching him fight.

I agree, Martinez, looked like he was old, it was sad to see him falling on the canvas like he was.

Cotto looked like a million bucks though..never seen him that sharp.

[Wesker115]

Personally I think after what he had to say and how his trainer pulled him out. I think he's done. But I think a lot of that has to do with how he had never fought a fighter like Cotto. He cut off the ring so well and didn't give Serg a chance. At 39, he may as well go out on top. It would be different if he had an Argentine fighter to fall back on for a top local fight. But the man has nothing to prove and was a true gentleman in defeat.

[RA-Box]

Martinez is hands down my favourite fighter in all of boxing, but yeah he's done. Completely done.

[champion4ever]

I wouldn't doubt that his timing being off was due to barely getting any real sparring in due to his knees. I have serious doubts he could train to be near 100% again, and with that in mind, he definitely needs to hang them up. His mobility was absolute garbage. Pretty shameful to take that fight.. but they were banking on Cotto being the smaller man, that's all.

I agree. That extra 14 month rest he took off to heal from his injuries may have adversely effected his overall conditioning. So there probably wasn't enough time for him to have a proper training camp in order to get himself into boxing shape. Moreover, because of the extra pounds he may have added from that long layoff, he probably had to work at least twice as hard just to make the 159 lbs weight limit. However, accepting Cotto's challenge was his choice. He shouldn't have taken the fight if his body wasn't 100 percent whole and properly healed. Perhaps a tuneup would have sufficed in this matter.

[kiaba360]

I wouldn't doubt that his timing being off was due to barely getting any real sparring in due to his knees. I have serious doubts he could train to be near 100% again, and with that in mind, he definitely needs to hang them up. His mobility was absolute garbage. Pretty shameful to take that fight.. but they were banking on Cotto being the smaller man, that's all.

He looked bothered with the height difference, which could've been helped through sparring.

[Boxing Goat]

I'm so demoralized right now. I have never, ever, seen a performance like that from Cotto before. I hate to say it but Sergio should think about hanging them up, he looked slow and off-balance. Props to Cotto..............I'll say this with 10000% honesty. I have no doubt that the Cotto from tonight destroys Mayweather. That performance was so precise from beginning to end, no fading, no signs of being hurt, hurting the much larger opponent. That display was scary.....one of the best I think I have ever seen.

I wouldn't say he destroys Floyd but he certainly stands a much better chance beating him then he did then they fought originally. Floyd now has a ton of respect for Cotto. I would be interested in a rematch but it will not happen.

[Boxing Goat]

Cotto looked good. But he didn't look any better than Chavez did September 2012, when he whooped Martinez's ass and was robbed.
Today was exactly what Martinez for his constant cherry picking of British janitors and European goatfarmers. He got in the ring with a real fighter and was beaten from pillar to post, exposed as the washed-up,sad excuse of a boxer he always was.

Hold up now...........

Was that serious?

[Ray Corso]

Time to become a full time actor because his part time acting job is OVER!
He just got beat up by a junior middle who isn't a huge puncher by any means
but Cotto beat him up bad enough to stop him on his stool. He's done and he never was that good to begin with. Cotto just showed you that! Ray

[New England]

absoF#ckinglutely.


the guy who fought last night was a fraction of what martinez used to be.


in his prime, he was a terrific fighter.