A very difficult fight for Williams. Martinez is a very good technical boxer with better then you think speed.

I think this fight in some ways will be harder then the Pavlik fight.

I think the 160lb thing maybe an indication that Williams isn't returning to 147lbs?

Why don't they make it a 154lb big fight anyhow, with the titles involved?

Neither of them are "real" champs. Both are "interims". So what we can actually get is an interim unification at 154lbs.

A bout unique in the annals of boxing, no less!

Ah,...

Its also pretty short notice for PW to drop another 6lbs and be totally fight fit isnt it? Though I've been saying for a while he's not going back down to welter.

I don't think he will go back to 147, but if there's a big fight then I think he will. Otherwise I don't see the point.

The reason he won't go to 154 for this fight is because I guess it's only a month away, and losing the 6 pounds is probably difficult (maybe he put on too much muscle or something), and he's still trying to fit into the middleweight division...

and who knows, maybe this is a request by Martinez' camp sicne they weren't even in training and can't get down to 154. That's very well possible, and at the age of 34, losing weight is harder.