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WBO interim light-middleweight champion Paul Williams 37-1 (KO 27),
will face WBC light-middleweight champion Sergio Martinez 44-1-2
(KO 24), on December 5th at Boardwalk Hall’s Adrian Phillips Ballroom
in Atlantic City. The bout will be fought at 160lbs with no belts on
the line.
- November 5th, 2009',
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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. |
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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?
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| Martin wrote: | 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.  |
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| Batman wrote: | | Martin wrote: | 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! 
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| Batman wrote: | | Neither of them are "real" champs. Both are "interims". So what we can actually get is an interim unification at 154lbs. |
Ah,...
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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.
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| Martin wrote: | 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? |
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. |
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