Sergio Martinez Agrees To Rematch With Darren Barker At Wembley On AJ Show [Tweet]

[Zaryu]

Not entirely sure why Martniez is doing this. Is he truly trying to mount a comeback? Is he hurting for money?

[Citizen Koba]

Glad to see Barker again, felt he retired prematurely and he(along with Macklin and Murray), gave Martinez his 3 toughest fighters in his prime(before he was a cripple against Cotto)

Barker's entire career was plagued with hip injuries, man. He retired after it gave out again against Sturm (whom I think he might well have beaten at that time). Damn shame - not an elite fighter, sure, but a good dude and a solid top 10ish kind of guy.

This is a dude with no hip against a dude with no knees and between them close to a decade out of the ring.

[soul_survivor]

Pointless and ****** but it'd be great seeing martinez again

[TheSlickster]

Barker's entire career was plagued with hip injuries, man. He retired after it gave out again against Sturm (whom I think he might well have beaten at that time). Damn shame - not an elite fighter, sure, but a good dude and a solid top 10ish kind of guy.

This is a dude with no hip against a dude with no knees and between them close to a decade out of the ring.

My bad, meant career getting 'Cut short' lol

[Randall Cunning]

Not entirely sure why Martniez is doing this. Is he truly trying to mount a comeback? Is he hurting for money?

DAZN are launching in Spain, beginning of 2019. Maybe has something to do with that, maybe him and Hearn going to start working together in a promoting capacity aswell? Though does also sound like hes interested in a comeback, apparently Chavez Jr wanted a tuneup before fighting after the initial talks, caught wind it wasn't just gunna be an exhibition type fight

[Eff Pandas]

Absolutely zero interest in this matchup.

Is Sergio broke or something? I thought he was a model & promoting now & had a bum f#cking knee?

Seems like a silly decision to fight again unless he's getting really good money for it. I was assuming he was getting nice money for a DAZN main event vs JCC Jr., but this seems like a far less alluring matchup to me. Idk doe. If they are gonna pay him nice for it fair play to him I guess.

[Tony Trick-Pony]

it'll be good to include disabled boxing on the cards, along with women's boxing being shown more.

Martinez has the knees of a 70 year old cripple and i'm sure Barker has had some form of hip replacement, no joke.

Who needs substance when you have novelty?

[Zaryu]

DAZN are launching in Spain, beginning of 2019. Maybe has something to do with that, maybe him and Hearn going to start working together in a promoting capacity aswell? Though does also sound like hes interested in a comeback, apparently Chavez Jr wanted a tuneup before fighting after the initial talks, caught wind it wasn't just gunna be an exhibition type fight

I hope it works out, would hate to see him get hurt.

[Amber_TKO]

This has gotta be a joke, right?

[pillowfists98]

I'd watch this.