Sergio Martinez vs Paul Williams face to face

November 20
At Atlantic City, N.J. (HBO): Sergio Martinez vs. Paul Williams, 12 rounds, rematch, for Martinez's Ring/WBC middleweight title

PW is listed at 6'1 and Martinez at 5'10, but Williams looks more ten 3 inches taller. This will be the best fight in a November to remember.

Is Sergio's trainer Blind? lol

Sergio isn't a small man but he looks tiny next to Williams.

This is who I think of when I see Maravilla's trainer.

LOL

That dude is good, one of the better corner man Ive seen recently

Precise instructions in between rounds

gomez1012 wrote:

LOL

That dude is good, one of the better corner man Ive seen recently

Precise instructions in between rounds

Yup, hes taken Maravilla this far, he must be doing something good. He just knows how to do his job, right.

Can someone clarify the name of Martinez's trainer?

In the Williams fight it was "Sarmiento," and in the Pavlik fight it was "Juan Leon Diaz."

Boxrec lists Sarmiento as a former trainer and Diaz as the current one.

"Sarmiento" was also the man in Cayo's corner against Maidana (Martinez was a second assist in the corner).

Recent interviews are also not consistent. I've heard both Sarmiento and Diaz as his trainer. It would be a wacky coincidence that both guys always wore sunglasses indoors (unless they come from a strange gym and both work with Sergio).This leads me to believe they are the same person.

lol it's been bugging me for a while.

Groundhog_Day wrote:

Can someone clarify the name of Martinez's trainer?

In the Williams fight it was "Sarmiento," and in the Pavlik fight it was "Juan Leon Diaz."

Boxrec lists Sarmiento as a former trainer and Diaz as the current one.

"Sarmiento" was also the man in Cayo's corner against Maidana (Martinez was a second assist in the corner).

Recent interviews are also not consistent. I've heard both Sarmiento and Diaz as his trainer. It would be a wacky coincidence that both guys always wore sunglasses indoors (unless they come from a strange gym and both work with Sergio).This leads me to believe they are the same person.

lol it's been bugging me for a while.

Google has it listed as Beatnik Rooster.

Ali_1748 wrote:

Sergio isn't a small man but he looks tiny next to Williams.

Yeah I mean how in hell does Williams make 154 let alone 147? I suppose the answer of course is he doesn't. He seems bigger than Heanrs because he IS bigger than Hearns FOUGHT around 147, Williams probably has never actually FOUGHT much under 155 or so.

hardcoreBEE24 wrote:

Google has it listed as Beatnik Rooster.

lol, Gabriel Sarmiento is his name

Older interview with him

Maybe he's got glaucoma ?

Diego408 wrote:

gomez1012 wrote:

LOL

That dude is good, one of the better corner man Ive seen recently

Precise instructions in between rounds

Yup, hes taken Maravilla this far, he must be doing something good. He just knows how to do his job, right.

A dramatically undervalued trait in life.

His trainer gives precise instructions and Martinez follows them. He sees thinks tactically. He isn't doing the normal trainer mumbo jumbo of move your hands, use your jab, blah blah blah.

Can't they find guys who are even close to the same height to fight anymore?

Wolfgangsta wrote:

Can't they find guys who are even close to the same height to fight anymore?

The sport has always had freaky height guys.

Panama Al Brown was a 5'11 bantamweight, Arguello was a 5'10 featherweight, Hearns was a 6'1 welter.

captainanddew wrote:

His trainer gives precise instructions and Martinez follows them. He sees thinks tactically. He isn't doing the normal trainer mumbo jumbo of move your hands, use your jab, blah blah blah.

Who was that training A Peterson? Is it Barry Hunter? Man that was bad

Tearing in Peterson over the damn jab, but that was it

Wolfgangsta wrote:

Can't they find guys who are even close to the same height to fight anymore?

Sherk vs Dunham.