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According to Bob Arum, Maravilla just needs to win another fight, and if everything happens according to plans, he could he fighting Murata for the WBA MW title in 2021.
Maravilla wants to fix again in November/December of this year.
Sorry for the looong story... some newspapers like to write long stories.
Exclusive: Maravilla Martínez, very close to fighting for the world crown against Ryota Murata in Japan.
Bob Arum, president of Top Rank, admitted that all the Argentine boxer will need is to perform a new preparatory fight to face his client in six months
He stepped into the ring with the trembling smile of someone who will be reunited with an abandoned love.
Everything went as planned against a strong, comfortable and inexperienced rival consuming six rounds - the necessary ones - with growing development and voluntary dominance.
The "friendly" fights have always existed; They are those in which there is a manifest superiority of one over another and whose result should respond to a natural logic without intent. Many champions have returned with fights of this type from Nicolino Locche (with Juan Carlos Peralta between Kod Pambelé and Alfonso Peppermint Frazer 71′-72 ′) to Muhammad Alí (with Jerry Quarry between license suspension and Joe Frazier with Bonavena in the middle in 70 ') passing through Carlos Monzón (with Roy Dale between Briscoe and Griffith 72'-73') or Mike Tyson (with Peter McNeeley after prison and before Frank Bruno in 95 ').
Returning champions have always needed to test themselves before the public with inevitable media exposure. They are those fights that allow him to speak with the partner in the full development of the match once he has secured his overwhelming and irreversible advantage. This is how you could ask the occasional adversary to collaborate in what you still want to try, such as making more rounds (or less), going to the string to answer short blows, attack, travel the ring less, request a transition of the rhythm or go deep. during the last 30 seconds to offer good round closings.
The only thing Maravilla tested for herself was the behavior of her body, especially the joints of her knees. Everything else he already knew, since he had undergone a highly demanding training that allowed him to show an impeccable aesthetic.
By the way it will never be the KO against Williams or the 11th round against Chavez in Las Vegas. None of us will be who we were in 2012; However, in the case of Maravilla, it is not the same as 2014 when a 34-year-old veteran Cotto and no longer illusions revealed the painful physical inferiorities insinuated against Murray in Vélez.
Throughout its history, several dozen notable boxers - we will only mention a few examples - attempted their returns to the ring for two fundamental reasons:
A) Due to financial necessity (Ray Sugar Robinson, Joe Louis, Tommy Hearns, Max Schmeling, among many).
B) Out of the need to rediscover glory (George Foreman –alcohol and drugs–, Sugar Ray Leonard –surgical intervention for retinal detachment–, Muhammad Alí –three-year sanction for refusing to be a soldier in the middle of the Vietnam War– or Mike Tyson who was in prison almost four for **** ...).
The vast majority of those who returned to boxing for money did not feel the ecstasy of victory again; On the other hand, those who did it to recover their portion of illuminated sky succeeded.
Maravilla Martinez is on this payroll, that of those who want to rediscover the lost apotheosis. And the most approximate referential case was that of George Foreman since he returned in 1987, ten years after leaving boxing after losing tightly by decision to Jimmy Young (3-17-77) in which it was considered "the fight of the year". And it was.
But the great George was 38 when he returned to the gyms, he kept a high percentage of his punch, he had not set deadlines or objectives. He had simply returned to the profession to save his life, be worthy, walk a path of religious faith, be healthy and maintain sportsmanship, away from *******, pills, alcohol and the fringe gang of his ruin. In addition, George felt his defeat against the great Muhammad Ali in Kinshasa as humiliating, perhaps something that Maravilla can feel after losing against Cotto ... It was so four years after his return and when he completed the fight 25 of his second he was just He fell to Evander Holyfield in an unforgettable fight but his watchword was to carry on. In such a way that in the 29th –four bouts later– he lost again, this time against Tommy Morrison and also on points.
The differences between Foreman and Maravilla are the objectives in time since the "engineer" of George's return did not force himself to do anything more than program it continuously, hoping that the performance, the results and the physical responses would set the guidelines for his point of departure. inflection. That wise businessman is Bob Arum, president of Top Rank who met Foreman in 1974 on the eve of the fight against Muhammad Ali in the Congo. At that time Bob - who was a lawyer for the Kennedy family - was making his debut as a boxing promoter in partnership with Mike Malitz. That was how 20 years later, on November 5, 1994, Foreman and Bob were to give an example of how to transform the chimera into reality, since Foreman at 45 years old - the age that Maravilla travels today - recovered the heavyweight crown (WBA and IBF) by beating Michael Moorer by KO in the 10th round at MGM in Las Vegas after seven long years of action and patience in which he fought 33 of the 76 fights of his prodigious record.
Maravilla does not have that time; Worse still, as seen in his reappearance against the Spanish José Miguel Fandiño, it would be advisable for Martínez to fight for the WBA middleweight world crown against the Japanese Murata as soon as possible. Obviously this will require special consideration from the president of the WBA, Gilberto Mendoza, to grant Sergio an exceptional “per saltum” that validates the validity of the match for the crown.
According to our evaluation, these are the reasons for such a risky opinion:
1 °) The time to elapse will favor more the technical improvement of Murata who today is an attack fighter who unloads with rigorous continuity fast straight blows to the head and only some short ascents to the easily neutralized abdominal area. The Japanese is 1.83 but his left jab is not long and has a vulnerable defense as his feet are usually on the same line and he fights with his head held high.
2nd) Murata would impose 50 percent more risk on Maravilla than a partner chosen by him (especially fighting at home in Japan) and 30 percent if the match were held in the United States. But shortening the deadline to achieve a fight for the title would compensate for the effort because it will reduce the risks that a 45-year-old body always carries beyond the virtues of its rival: cuts, cramps, fatigue, new injuries and resentment from old women. ailments.
3rd) Champion Murata's race is managed by Teiken (Japan) companies in partnership with Top Rank (USA). And both are associated with DAZN to sell Murata fights in their international application. That is why the next defenses of the Japanese will have to take place in a city in Japan or in Shanghai (China) where Top Rank has landed more than two years ago. In any case, the feasibility of realization has two conditions:
A) that the Pandemic allows programming with a certain date
B) that Maravilla, if the WBA grants him exceptional status, is ready to fight in March / April 2021 since the Olympic Games to be held between July 23 and August 8 in Tokyo will devalue the interest in any another sporting show to be held in Japan.
Planning in these terms would allow Maravilla to make one more preparatory fight - just one - and get a chance against the world champion, Ryota Murata, who is 34 years old and 18 fights, of which he won 16 (13 by KO) and lost. 2. Someone whose biggest endorsement came when he won the gold medal at the London Olympics in 2012.
It was there when in the 16th round he beat an Algerian (Abdelmaler Rahou by 21-12), a Turk (Adem Kiucci by 17 to 13), an Uzbek (Abbos Atoey by 13 to 12 in the semifinal) and the Brazilian Dodge Fiorentino (14-13) the Olympic middleweight title. As can be seen, all his triumphs were adjusted against rivals from countries with no Olympic boxing tradition. The champions of the World Council (Jermall Charlo), the World Boxing Organization (Demetrius Andrade) and the International Boxing Council (Gennady Golovkin) are superior to the Japanese and inaccessible to Maravilla. And by the way, don't even think about the super champion Saul Canelo Alvarez.
In terms of professionalism, what Murata achieved is still meager: he won the crown from 36-year-old Cameroonian (based in France) Hassan N’Dam N’Jikam in the second between the two because when they did it for the first time he lost his undefeated. That was in 2017 and in Japan. And the only time he went to expose his crown at Park MGM in Las Vegas, he was defeated on points by the American Rob Brant, 29 years old and 28 fights. Nine months later in Osaka (2019) he regained the title by TKO in the 2nd round against Brant himself. In other words, too little, too little for the champion of a category that was illuminated among so many Robinson, Leonard, Monzon, Hagler, De la Hoya (training to return), Bernard Hopkins, Tommy Hearns ...
I spoke a few days ago with Bob Arum on this subject and his qualified opinion was the following:
- ”At 45 years old it is very difficult to develop good fights, due to age and the logical wear and tear; it does not matter that the boxer is in good physical condition. Time makes it difficult for an athlete to perform the same at that age as when he is younger, "said Arum. And continued:
- ”There are some specific exceptions. Foreman was an exception. We handled his return to the ring with great care and he had the advantage that he was heavyweight and we prepared him for a long time (7 years) before the fight with Michael Moorer ”, confessed who was the driver of that pugilistic miracle. And concluded:
- “To get to Murata well, the ideal would be for Martinez to have a single fight; just one. At his age, making a series of preparatory fights could be dangerous. If I were his promoter I would just have one more fight and then voila, to face Murata. I do not handle Martínez, I am not the one who would advise him, but if that were the case, I would not allow him to do more than one… ”, concluded the“ wise ”Bob Arum, Murata's promoter, the organizer of the unforgettable fight that Maravilla won against Chavez Jr. in Las Vegas and one of the hundred most momentous fights of the last fifty years in boxing history. It is not difficult to interpret his predisposition to facilitate Martinez a fight with Murata since he is the one who manages it.
It's like this: Maravilla can improve your download speed in attack by between 20 and 30 percent. And its power in the punch by 20 percent. All you have to do is “talk” to your knee to see if it can respond to your need for quick movements in the face of Murata's attacks. He doesn't have to be the one who shone, beating the Macklin, the Dzinziruk, the Williams, the Pavlik or the Chavez because we won't see him again. And this one today is overwhelmingly superior to Ryoki Murata the world champion.
Maravilla will have to do what Michelangelo did in 1515 at the end of "Moses", his most famous work of Renaissance realism. It was then that Michelángelo Buonarroti, seeing so much perfection sculpted in the marble, struck the right knee of the Moisés and exclaimed “Speak, why don't you speak to me ?!”.
It's time to know Maravilla, hit your right knee and ask him, can you bench me to the world title?
Source: https://www.infobae.com/america/depo...rata-en-japon/
Maravilla wants to fix again in November/December of this year.
Sorry for the looong story... some newspapers like to write long stories.
Exclusive: Maravilla Martínez, very close to fighting for the world crown against Ryota Murata in Japan.
Bob Arum, president of Top Rank, admitted that all the Argentine boxer will need is to perform a new preparatory fight to face his client in six months
He stepped into the ring with the trembling smile of someone who will be reunited with an abandoned love.
Everything went as planned against a strong, comfortable and inexperienced rival consuming six rounds - the necessary ones - with growing development and voluntary dominance.
The "friendly" fights have always existed; They are those in which there is a manifest superiority of one over another and whose result should respond to a natural logic without intent. Many champions have returned with fights of this type from Nicolino Locche (with Juan Carlos Peralta between Kod Pambelé and Alfonso Peppermint Frazer 71′-72 ′) to Muhammad Alí (with Jerry Quarry between license suspension and Joe Frazier with Bonavena in the middle in 70 ') passing through Carlos Monzón (with Roy Dale between Briscoe and Griffith 72'-73') or Mike Tyson (with Peter McNeeley after prison and before Frank Bruno in 95 ').
Returning champions have always needed to test themselves before the public with inevitable media exposure. They are those fights that allow him to speak with the partner in the full development of the match once he has secured his overwhelming and irreversible advantage. This is how you could ask the occasional adversary to collaborate in what you still want to try, such as making more rounds (or less), going to the string to answer short blows, attack, travel the ring less, request a transition of the rhythm or go deep. during the last 30 seconds to offer good round closings.
The only thing Maravilla tested for herself was the behavior of her body, especially the joints of her knees. Everything else he already knew, since he had undergone a highly demanding training that allowed him to show an impeccable aesthetic.
By the way it will never be the KO against Williams or the 11th round against Chavez in Las Vegas. None of us will be who we were in 2012; However, in the case of Maravilla, it is not the same as 2014 when a 34-year-old veteran Cotto and no longer illusions revealed the painful physical inferiorities insinuated against Murray in Vélez.
Throughout its history, several dozen notable boxers - we will only mention a few examples - attempted their returns to the ring for two fundamental reasons:
A) Due to financial necessity (Ray Sugar Robinson, Joe Louis, Tommy Hearns, Max Schmeling, among many).
B) Out of the need to rediscover glory (George Foreman –alcohol and drugs–, Sugar Ray Leonard –surgical intervention for retinal detachment–, Muhammad Alí –three-year sanction for refusing to be a soldier in the middle of the Vietnam War– or Mike Tyson who was in prison almost four for **** ...).
The vast majority of those who returned to boxing for money did not feel the ecstasy of victory again; On the other hand, those who did it to recover their portion of illuminated sky succeeded.
Maravilla Martinez is on this payroll, that of those who want to rediscover the lost apotheosis. And the most approximate referential case was that of George Foreman since he returned in 1987, ten years after leaving boxing after losing tightly by decision to Jimmy Young (3-17-77) in which it was considered "the fight of the year". And it was.
But the great George was 38 when he returned to the gyms, he kept a high percentage of his punch, he had not set deadlines or objectives. He had simply returned to the profession to save his life, be worthy, walk a path of religious faith, be healthy and maintain sportsmanship, away from *******, pills, alcohol and the fringe gang of his ruin. In addition, George felt his defeat against the great Muhammad Ali in Kinshasa as humiliating, perhaps something that Maravilla can feel after losing against Cotto ... It was so four years after his return and when he completed the fight 25 of his second he was just He fell to Evander Holyfield in an unforgettable fight but his watchword was to carry on. In such a way that in the 29th –four bouts later– he lost again, this time against Tommy Morrison and also on points.
The differences between Foreman and Maravilla are the objectives in time since the "engineer" of George's return did not force himself to do anything more than program it continuously, hoping that the performance, the results and the physical responses would set the guidelines for his point of departure. inflection. That wise businessman is Bob Arum, president of Top Rank who met Foreman in 1974 on the eve of the fight against Muhammad Ali in the Congo. At that time Bob - who was a lawyer for the Kennedy family - was making his debut as a boxing promoter in partnership with Mike Malitz. That was how 20 years later, on November 5, 1994, Foreman and Bob were to give an example of how to transform the chimera into reality, since Foreman at 45 years old - the age that Maravilla travels today - recovered the heavyweight crown (WBA and IBF) by beating Michael Moorer by KO in the 10th round at MGM in Las Vegas after seven long years of action and patience in which he fought 33 of the 76 fights of his prodigious record.
Maravilla does not have that time; Worse still, as seen in his reappearance against the Spanish José Miguel Fandiño, it would be advisable for Martínez to fight for the WBA middleweight world crown against the Japanese Murata as soon as possible. Obviously this will require special consideration from the president of the WBA, Gilberto Mendoza, to grant Sergio an exceptional “per saltum” that validates the validity of the match for the crown.
According to our evaluation, these are the reasons for such a risky opinion:
1 °) The time to elapse will favor more the technical improvement of Murata who today is an attack fighter who unloads with rigorous continuity fast straight blows to the head and only some short ascents to the easily neutralized abdominal area. The Japanese is 1.83 but his left jab is not long and has a vulnerable defense as his feet are usually on the same line and he fights with his head held high.
2nd) Murata would impose 50 percent more risk on Maravilla than a partner chosen by him (especially fighting at home in Japan) and 30 percent if the match were held in the United States. But shortening the deadline to achieve a fight for the title would compensate for the effort because it will reduce the risks that a 45-year-old body always carries beyond the virtues of its rival: cuts, cramps, fatigue, new injuries and resentment from old women. ailments.
3rd) Champion Murata's race is managed by Teiken (Japan) companies in partnership with Top Rank (USA). And both are associated with DAZN to sell Murata fights in their international application. That is why the next defenses of the Japanese will have to take place in a city in Japan or in Shanghai (China) where Top Rank has landed more than two years ago. In any case, the feasibility of realization has two conditions:
A) that the Pandemic allows programming with a certain date
B) that Maravilla, if the WBA grants him exceptional status, is ready to fight in March / April 2021 since the Olympic Games to be held between July 23 and August 8 in Tokyo will devalue the interest in any another sporting show to be held in Japan.
Planning in these terms would allow Maravilla to make one more preparatory fight - just one - and get a chance against the world champion, Ryota Murata, who is 34 years old and 18 fights, of which he won 16 (13 by KO) and lost. 2. Someone whose biggest endorsement came when he won the gold medal at the London Olympics in 2012.
It was there when in the 16th round he beat an Algerian (Abdelmaler Rahou by 21-12), a Turk (Adem Kiucci by 17 to 13), an Uzbek (Abbos Atoey by 13 to 12 in the semifinal) and the Brazilian Dodge Fiorentino (14-13) the Olympic middleweight title. As can be seen, all his triumphs were adjusted against rivals from countries with no Olympic boxing tradition. The champions of the World Council (Jermall Charlo), the World Boxing Organization (Demetrius Andrade) and the International Boxing Council (Gennady Golovkin) are superior to the Japanese and inaccessible to Maravilla. And by the way, don't even think about the super champion Saul Canelo Alvarez.
In terms of professionalism, what Murata achieved is still meager: he won the crown from 36-year-old Cameroonian (based in France) Hassan N’Dam N’Jikam in the second between the two because when they did it for the first time he lost his undefeated. That was in 2017 and in Japan. And the only time he went to expose his crown at Park MGM in Las Vegas, he was defeated on points by the American Rob Brant, 29 years old and 28 fights. Nine months later in Osaka (2019) he regained the title by TKO in the 2nd round against Brant himself. In other words, too little, too little for the champion of a category that was illuminated among so many Robinson, Leonard, Monzon, Hagler, De la Hoya (training to return), Bernard Hopkins, Tommy Hearns ...
I spoke a few days ago with Bob Arum on this subject and his qualified opinion was the following:
- ”At 45 years old it is very difficult to develop good fights, due to age and the logical wear and tear; it does not matter that the boxer is in good physical condition. Time makes it difficult for an athlete to perform the same at that age as when he is younger, "said Arum. And continued:
- ”There are some specific exceptions. Foreman was an exception. We handled his return to the ring with great care and he had the advantage that he was heavyweight and we prepared him for a long time (7 years) before the fight with Michael Moorer ”, confessed who was the driver of that pugilistic miracle. And concluded:
- “To get to Murata well, the ideal would be for Martinez to have a single fight; just one. At his age, making a series of preparatory fights could be dangerous. If I were his promoter I would just have one more fight and then voila, to face Murata. I do not handle Martínez, I am not the one who would advise him, but if that were the case, I would not allow him to do more than one… ”, concluded the“ wise ”Bob Arum, Murata's promoter, the organizer of the unforgettable fight that Maravilla won against Chavez Jr. in Las Vegas and one of the hundred most momentous fights of the last fifty years in boxing history. It is not difficult to interpret his predisposition to facilitate Martinez a fight with Murata since he is the one who manages it.
It's like this: Maravilla can improve your download speed in attack by between 20 and 30 percent. And its power in the punch by 20 percent. All you have to do is “talk” to your knee to see if it can respond to your need for quick movements in the face of Murata's attacks. He doesn't have to be the one who shone, beating the Macklin, the Dzinziruk, the Williams, the Pavlik or the Chavez because we won't see him again. And this one today is overwhelmingly superior to Ryoki Murata the world champion.
Maravilla will have to do what Michelangelo did in 1515 at the end of "Moses", his most famous work of Renaissance realism. It was then that Michelángelo Buonarroti, seeing so much perfection sculpted in the marble, struck the right knee of the Moisés and exclaimed “Speak, why don't you speak to me ?!”.
It's time to know Maravilla, hit your right knee and ask him, can you bench me to the world title?
Source: https://www.infobae.com/america/depo...rata-en-japon/
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