News - Paul Williams

In a much anticipated rematch, WBC middleweight champion Sergio Martinez (46-2-2, 25 KOs) destroyed former 147lb and 154lb champion Paul Williams (39-2, 27 KOs) on Saturday night at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey. An explosive left hook on the jaw dropped Williams face first for the count 1:10 into round two. After the two picked up where they left off in their controversial 2009 classic in round one read more ...

The weights are in for tomorrow's very anticipated rematch at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City. Both fighters were in great shape. WBC middleweight champion Sergio Martinez (45-2-2, 24 KOs) was ripped and ready at 157.5-pounds. The challenger, "Punisher" Paul Williams (39-1, 27 KOs) was 156-pounds. The fight is being fought at a catch-weight of 158-pounds. The fight is a rematch of last December's war at the same venue, which Williams won by way of a close majority decision read more ...

On Friday, reigning WBC middleweight champion Sergio “Maravilla” Martinez and three-time world champion Paul “The Punisher” Williams went to the scales for the Official WBC 30-day Weigh-In. Martinez weighing in at 176, from his camp in Oxnard, CA and from Wash., DC, Williams weighed 162 pounds. The contract weight for the Saturday, November 20 bout at Atlantic City Boardwalk Hall is 157-pounds read more ...

Zsolt Erdei, the former light heavyweight and cruiserweight world champion, who is yet to lose a fight as a professional, has signed a promotional deal with DiBella Entertainment. Born and residing in Hungary, Erdei (31-0, 17 KOs), who has fought his entire professional career in Europe thus far, is looking to make a big splash in America his grand finale read more ...

Middleweight champion Sergio Martinez will return to the site of his title triumph when he defends his WBC belt against Paul Williams at Boardwalk Hall on Nov. 20. Martinez (45-2-2) won the belt with an impressive unanimous decision over Kelly Pavlik in April, four months after a thrilling mixed-decision loss to Williams in the same building read more ...

Ricardo Mayorga is back on the scene again and this time he is trying to secure a fight against Ukrainian Sergiy Dzinziruk, current junior middleweight champion of the WBO, for a date of October 2. The rumored opponent for Dzinziruk was Luis Collazo, who recently said he was not interested in accepting the fight at this time and needed a tuneup or two read more ...

Sources close to the situation have advised BoxingScene.com that HBO is heavily leaning on the team of Paul Williams (39-1, 27KOs) to have a rematch with WBC middleweight champion Sergio Martinez (45-2, 24KOs) on October 2. I've been told the only other opponent HBO is willing to entertain for Williams, is a fight with undefeated WBO 154-pounds champion Sergei Dzinziruk (37-0, 23KOs) read more ...

As if boxing has not seen enough unusual occurrences inside or outside of the ring, Saturday night at the Home Depot Center in Carson could be another chapter added to the book of oddities in boxing. Paul Williams won a bizarre and unsatisfying four round technical split decision over Kermit Cintron on Saturday night. Unsatisfying that a bout where fireworks were expected early and often brought about boos from the crowd. Bizarre for the way the fight ended read more ...

BoxingScene.com spoke with a furious Kermit Cintron, who vowed to walk away from boxing if the California State Athletic Commission denies his planned petition to reverse Saturday's split decision loss to Paul Williams, which took place at the Home Depot Center in Carson. The first three rounds of the fight was more or less a boxing match, but the two former champions began to exchange hard punches in the fourth read more ...

The self-proclaimed “most feared fighter in the world,” three-time world champion Paul “The Punisher” Williams (39-1, 27 KOs) won an unsatisfying split technical decision over former welterweight champion Kermit “The Killer” Cintron (32-3-1, 28 KOs) on Saturday night at the Home Depot Center in Carson, California. The much taller Williams fought from the outside while Cintron didn’t apply much pressure read more ...