FULL FIGHT REPORT AND PHOTOS: MARTINEZ WON THE MENTAL GAME AND THE FIGHT
By Ed de la Vega, DDS
PhilBoxing.com
Sun, 16 Sep 2012
Thomas and Mack Arena, Las Vegas, NV:- Most pundits knew that Martinez will win the fight and grab the belt of the young Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.
But they didn?t have a clue that the fight will go the way it did.
Sergio Martinez won 11 of the 12 rounds for a wide unanimous decision by cleverly outfoxing Chavez.
No one knew that Chavez will fight the way he did, looking for a KO all night long and not throwing many punches. Chavez did not make excuses. He knew he lost big.
Was Chavez huge loss a mental lapse and a coaching error? Does it have anything to do with his unusual training regimen?
Who knows?
Chavez almost pulled it off in the last round when he knocked down the Argentinean who in his quest for a dramatic knockout in the last round almost got knock out himself.
Only Martinez? experience saved him from the stupid mistake of wanting to ?have it all? when he knew he was far ahead in points and did not need a knockout to show his superiority over the young son of the legendary Mexican boxers JC Chavez, Sr.
Martinez with the victory thus got his belt back which was ?taken away? from him by Jose Sulaiman, the perennial WBC President from Mexico.
Incidentally, some reports indicate that Chavez is the godson of Sulaiman and the old man is partial towards him. But that?s a story for another time.
At the post fight presscon, there were talks of a re-match and I am pretty sure Bob Arum will try his best to get it done.
After all they sold out the Thomas and Mack the first time they fought and I see no reason why they can not sell out the MGM or even the Texas Stadium where an offer to host a re-match was already made by its owner, according to Arum.
The other fight results:
Wale Omotoso (23-0-0, 19 KO) UD over Daniel Sostre (11-7-1, 4KO)
Willie Nelson (19-1-1, 11KO) UD over John Jackson (13-1-0, 12KO)
Michael Medina (26-3-2, 19KO) dropped James Winchester (15-5-0,5KO) once in the first round and again in the eighth and won going away via a UD with a the three judges all scoring 80-70.
Mike Lee (12-0-0,6KO) won via UD over a mismatched Paul Harness(4-4-1,3KO)
Ex-Cuban Olympian Guillermo Rigondeaux dropped a very good Roberto Marroquin in rounds 5 and 12 and won via UD with scores as follows: 118-108, 118-108, 118-109. With the win the Cuban kept his WBA Super bantamweight title.
Roman Martinez (26-1-1, 16KO) and Miguel Beltran (27-1-0-1, 17KO) fought a very exciting fight whose excitement level was second only to the main event itself. Martinez won via a close UD with the scores as follows: 116-111,114-113 and 114-113.
Mathew Macklin (29-4-0,20KO) made short work with Joachim Alcine winning via a TKO at 2:36 of round 1.
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