Fight Name: | The Threat Is Real |
Fight Date: | March 12, 2011 |
Location: | Foxwoods Resort Casino, Mashantucket, Connecticut, U.S. |
Titles: | The Ring middleweight championship |
Fighter1: | Sergio Martínez |
Nickname1: | "Maravilla" |
Hometown1: | Quilmes, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
Purse1: | $1,200,000 |
Record1: | 46–2–2 (25 KO's) |
Height1: | 5 ft 10 in |
Weight1: | 159 lb |
Style1: | Southpaw |
Recognition1: | The Ring Middleweight Champion The Ring No. 4 ranked pound-for-pound fighter 2-division world champion |
Fighter2: | Sergiy Dzinziruk |
Nickname2: | "Dzyna" |
Hometown2: | Brovari, Ukraine |
Purse2: | $850,000 |
Record2: | 37–0 (23 KO's) |
Height2: | 6 ft 0 in |
Weight2: | 159 lb |
Style2: | Orthodox |
Recognition2: | WBO Junior Middleweight Champion The Ring No. 8 Ranked Junior Middleweight |
Result: | Martínez defeats Dzinziruk via 8th round knockout. |
Sergio Martínez vs. Sergiy Dzindziruk, billed as The Threat Is Real.was a professional boxing match contested on March 12, 2011, for The Ring middleweight championship.[1]
Having stripped by the WBC after HBO declined to broadcast a bout between him and "Interim" champion Sebastian Zbik,[2] Sergio Martínez defended his Lineal and Ring titles on the line against WBO 154 champion, Sergiy Dzindziruk.
Martínez stopped Sergiy Dzinziruk in the eighth round, knocking down the Ukrainian middleweight five times during the fight, and three times in the 8th/last round. In Round 5, Dzinziruk was knocked down again by a left hand just seconds before the bell rang. He got up smiling, but Martínez now firmly appeared to be in control of the fight. Referee Arthur Mercante Jr. stopped the bout at the eighth after Martínez of Oxnard, California, sent Dzinziruk down for the third time.[3] [4]
Martínez would next Darren Barker, after new WBC champ Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., Daniel Geale, Miguel Cotto, Andy Lee and Paul Williams, all refused to fight him.[5]
Confirmed bouts:[6]
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HBO |