Comments Thread For: Sergio Martinez: Canelo Made Smart Business Move With GGG

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Brooklyn, New York- The last time the WBC middleweight championship of the world was defended at a 160-pounds, the man who held the title was Sergio Martinez. Since he lost the lineal title to Miguel Cotto in 2014, the belt has not been defended at 160.

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[Lou Cipher]

Canelo is the A-Side. Top fighter in the world. Fraud Pedcheater Jr did this his entire career. Canelo is a warrior...but he is the A-Side

[NEETzsche]

nice to see some solidarity between duckers

[Eastcoast]

Sergio knows what he's talking about.

[bronx7]

I understand the business part the Floyd plan. Canelo has blind followers will pay to see him against anyone so fight softest guys possible. But even the ex champ drinking the koolaid that Canelo would be giving up too much fighting at 160. He walks around at 190 fights fight time 180 what is he giving up?

[Bronx2245]

Canelo is the A-Side. Top fighter in the world. Fraud Pedcheater Jr did this his entire career. Canelo is a warrior...but he is the A-Side

"For those that seek to undermine him -- due, in many cases, to personal disdain for one of boxing’s more unpleasant characters -- he belongs nowhere near the top ten welterweights in history. This being the case, I’ve endeavored to stay away, as far as it is possible in this entry, from opinion. I’ll deal in fact.

Floyd Mayweather defeated more ranked welterweight contenders than Thomas Hearns (rankings by Ring/TBRB). He defeated more top five contenders than almost anyone outside the top ten, aside from the likes of Jackie Fields – but Fields also lost to a handful of welterweights. Mayweather was unbeaten.

Mayweather defeated more welterweight lineal champions than Barney Ross. Working by the scorecards of the judges he was, for the most part, in non-competitive fights at the weight. He made a past-prime Manny Pacquiao, his #1 contender at the weight, look like a journeyman. He defeated more #1 ranked fighters (champions or top rated contenders) than all but the most storied of fighters. He boxed only three unranked men at the weight, two of whom were soft touches (Sharmba Mitchell, his first fight at the weight, and Andre Berto) and Ricky Hatton, the light-welterweight champion of the world and universally recognized pound-for-pounder, who he knocked out.

He was one of the few men to become a two-time lineal world-welterweight champion and the only man who ever did it without losing a fight, coming out of retirement to do what Barbados Joe Walcott and Benny Leonard both failed to do. During his welterweight career, moments of true danger were extremely rare; he was run close just once, in the first fight with Marcos Rene Maidana, a narrow victory he rendered wide in the rematch..."

http://www.thesweetscience.com/news/...part-five-10-1

[Toltec77]

Hey Cotto pulled the same crap when it came down to fight Canelo, making his queen diva demands because he was the A side like his cry baby fans were saying!three times it took cotto to finally man up! So Canelo has 2 more times before it equals that to fight GGG. i think it was a great move by Canelo,now he can demand big money and not slip with GGG, because it a very risky fight.

[ИATAS]

Martinez is the **** who created this entire mess at middleweight in the first place. Cherry picked Cotto & got his ass beat lol

[Eff Pandas]

nice to see some solidarity between duckers

LOL same thing I was thinking. Cotto chim in on this yet?

And this is truly a sign of the times. Boxers big upping other boxers for their business moves lol.

[NaijaD]

Martinez is the **** who created this entire mess at middleweight in the first place. Cherry picked Cotto & got his ass beat lol

Who was he supposed to defend it against at the age of 39 and at the end of his career??

I get it that GGG is getting a lot of unfair stick from certain fans but you don't get to criticise Martinez for fighting Cotto, he took one gimme after pretty much fighting top middleweights one after the other. So piss off calling him a c*nt.