Fight Sergio Gabriel Martinez W RTD 11 (12) Matthew Macklin

Birmingham’s Matthew Macklin fell just short when challenging consensus middleweight king Sergio Martinez at New York’s Madison Square Garden last night when the 29-year-old’s trainer, Buddy McGirt, withdrew the challenger from the fight after two knockdowns late in the eleventh round. Macklin rose to his feet both times only for McGirt read more ...

Sergio Martinez pulled away down the stretch, outlanding Matthew Macklin 56-30 in power shots over the last three rounds to secure a TKO victory at the end of the eleventh round read more ...

NYSAC Martinez-Macklin Official Scorecard read more ...

World middleweight champion Sergio «Maravilla» Martinez was losing on all three scorecards after a controversial knockdown in round seven before scoring a dramatic come-from-behind knockout of Matthew «Mack the Knife» Macklin Saturday night in the Theater at Madison Square Garden. «It was a complicated fight,» Martinez admitted. "He wasn’t open on defense. I knew it was a 12-round fight read more ...

Middleweight champion Sergio Martinez (49-2-2, 28 KOs) scored a spectacular eleventh round TKO over Matthew Macklin (28-4, 19 KOs) on Saturday night before a sellout crowd inside The Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York City. In a much closer fight than people expected, Martinez recovered from a seventh round knockdown to outbox Macklin down the stretch before blasting Macklin to the deck twice in round eleven read more ...

"It will be a great fight. I need eight weeks of training, which I just started, so I cannot tell you what I predict because I need to see how I do in the eight weeks...the only thing I’m thinking about is Macklin and I will not think about anybody else at this moment. I want to respect Macklin because he is a great fighter, and I need to train properly for that fight...I’m doing the same thing Macklin is doing for me read more ...

Promoter Lou DiBella has advised BoxingScene.com that middleweight contender Andy Lee (27-1, 19KOs) is ready and willing to fight WBA champion Felix Sturm (36-2-2, 15KOs) - and the Irish boxer has no issue with traveling to Germany to make the fight happen read more ...

Sergio Martinez held a press conference in Argentina to announce that he’s vacating the WBC Diamond title. Martinez expresed his anger over the WBC’s failure to honor their promise of a mandatory fight with their full middleweight champion, Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. At the recent WBC convention at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, the organization ordered Chavez to defend the title against Martinez by the end of March read more ...