The medium Buenos Aires Sergio “Maravilla” Martínez came to the crossroads of the versions that gave him about to hang up his gloves permanently and from Madrid announced that he will step into the ring next October: “In a couple of weeks I will have more specific news.”
he andxsuper welterweight and middleweight world champion expressed enthusiasm for the possibility of making his fifth fight effective since his return after more than six years of inactivity.
In June 2014 he had been knocked out by the Puerto Rican Miguel Coto and once he found the right treatments to solve his chronic knee problems, he decided to return to boxing in general and look for a chance at the world championship in particular.
In that context ofHe defeated the Spanish José Miguel Fandiño in August 2020, the Finnish Jussi Koivula in December of that same year and the British Brian Rosa in September 2021 and McGowan in January 2022.
Their meteoric rise in the ranks of the World Boxing Association profiled Maravilla as a challenger to Ryota Muratabut when the Japanese was knocked out by the Kazakh Gennady Golovkin, everything seemed to fall apart.
“I can’t do anything for Sergio anymore. His was possible when boxing was reactivated in a pandemic, but not now, that possibility died,” warned WBA president, Venezuelan Gilberto Mendoza..
Far from giving up, Martínez trains daily in Madrid, underlining one of his favorite fillers (“I am a boxer who also does other things”) and offers the details that he feels pertinent to offer: “I have been training since July 11 after come back from Argentina and take a few days off”.
“I don’t want to get mysterious, in the next few weeks I will have the confirmation of the place, date and rival, but in October they will see me again on top of the ring“, the unique Quilmeño boxer referred in dialogue with the Télam agency and immediately expanded on his recent experience as a leading actor in the movie “Búfalo”.
In that sense, he narrated that it was about “a truly spectacular experience. A not so small production that required a lot of me physically. It was very hard to work, very hard to record, because I lived the life of a mixed martial arts fighter. It is a sport that, although it has punches and knockouts, has nothing to do with boxing, but the strength of the people who compete is enormous.”
“Those guys are the strongest people I’ve ever met. By far, huh. On an emotional level it cost me. The story of a fighter who falls into jail and when he gets out the true love story begins. A nice story: he fights to recover the love of his son. I spent two months in a shed with a small competition shorcito, with temperatures below zero, three, four and even five degrees below zero in the cities of 25 de Mayo, Azul and Bolívar. I almost died of cold! I’m not complaining, because I know that in those experiences one learns and gets new resources,” he added.
“But, of course, I never stopped being a boxer. I have a new manager, I signed a new contract and in October I will go into the ring to nurture a dream that I have not departed from.“, concluded Martínez, 47 years old and a record of 55-3-2 with 30 definitions before the limit.
“Maravilla” Martínez prepares his next challenge in the ring on the eve of the 10-year high point of his career, when he defeated Mexican Julio César Chavez Jr. by unanimous decision and won the middleweight title of the Consejo World Boxing Championship (WBC)on September 15, 2012 at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas.
