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Sergio Martinez
(Sergio Gabriel Martinez; "Maravilla")

BORN   February 21 1975; Quilmes, Buenos Aires, Argentina
HEIGHT 5-10
WEIGHT 145 1/2 - 159 1/2 lbs
MANAGERS Ricardo Sanchez Atocha, DiBella Entertainment
TRAINERS Gabriel Sarmiento, Juan Leon Diaz, Pablo Daniel Sarmiento

Martinez is a handsome man and a splendid boxer who punches quickly with both hands and carries a stiff punch; He is a harder hitter than given credit for; Sergio is left-handed and a natural athlete; Besides boxing, he has participated in soccer and cycling; Sergio is a collector of titles - during his career, he has won the WBO Middleweight Championship of the World, the WBC Middleweight Championship of the World, the WBC Light Middleweight Championship of the World, the WBC Latino Light Middleweight Championship, the IBO Light Middleweight Championship of the World, the IBO Light Middleweight Championship of the World, the FAB Welterweight Championship of Argentina and the WBO Latino Welterweight Championship

He has defeated such men as Kelly Pavlik, Paul Williams, Darren Barker, Alex Bunema, Serhiy Dzinziruk, Matthew Macklin, Sergio Ernesto Acuna, Adrian Stone, Richard Williams, Saul Roman, Francisco Antonio Mora, Ariel Gabriel Chaves, Albert Airapetian and Paulo Alejandro Sanchez

1997
Dec 27 Cristian Marcelo Vivas     Ituzaingo, Argentina               WF  2

1998
Feb 20 Julio Cesar Villalva       Cipolletti, Argentina              TK  1
Mar 14 Mario Javier Nieva         Buenos Aires, Argentina             D  4
Jul 25 Mario Javier Nieva         Buenos Aires, Argentina             W  6
Aug 22 Juan Mauricio Marino       Buenos Aires, Argentina             W  6
Sep  4 Luis Alberto Baldomir      Buenos Aires, Argentina            TK  5
Dec  4 Gabriel Leonidas Leiva     Buenos Aires, Argentina            TK  3

1999
Mar  5 Arnaldo Gabriel Molina     Mar del Plata, Argentina           TK  5
Mar 19 Ignacio Ramon Caceres      Quilmes, Argentina                 TK  4
Apr 17 Jose Antonio Perez         Quilmes, Argentina                  W  8
May 15 Elio Vaca Anglarill        Quilmes, Argentina                  W  8
Jun 26 Silvio Walter Rojas        Quilmes, Argentina                  W 10
Jul 17 Paulo Alejandro Sanchez    Villa Dominico, Argentina           W 10
Aug 28 Ariel Gabriel Chaves       Quilmes, Argentina                  W 10
Sep 11 Walter Fabian Saporiti     Quilmes, Argentina                 TK  2
Oct  9 Silvio Walter Rojas        Ciudad Evita, Argentina             W 10
Oct 22 Paulo Alejandro Sanchez    Quilmes, Argentina                  W 10

2000
Feb 19 Antonio Margarito          Las Vegas, Nv                      LT  7
Apr 15 Raul Eduardo Bejarano      Quilmes, Argentina                  W  6
May  5 Javier Alejandro Blanco    Santa Rosa, Argentina               W  8
Jun 16 Adrian Walter Daneff       Quilmes, Argentina                 KO  4
          -WBO Latino Welterweight Championship

2001
May 19 Elbio Felipe Gonzalez      Nueve de Julio, Argentina          TK  6
Jul 14 Enrique Areco              Caseros, Argentina                 TK  8
Sep  8 Javier Alejandro Blanco    Buenos Aires, Argentina             W 10
          -FAB Welterweight Championship of Argentina
Oct 27 Sergio Ernesto Acuna       Buenos Aires, Argentina            TK  7
          -FAB Welterweight Championship of Argentina

2002
Feb  2 Francisco Antonio Mora     Buenos Aires, Argentina             W 10
Apr 26 Alvaro Moreno Gamboa       Barcelona, Spain                    W  8
Jul 12 Vasile Surcica             Parla, Spain                        W  8

2003
Feb  7 Miguel Angel Perez         Madrid, Spain                      KO  1
May  9 Frank Oppong               Leganes, Spain                      W  8
Jun 21 Richard Williams           Manchester, England                 W 12
          -IBO Light Middleweight Championship of the World
Oct  9 Adrian Stone               Bristol, England                   KO 12
          -IBO Light Middleweight Championship of the World

2004
Apr 17 Richard Williams           Belfast, Ireland                   TK  9
          -IBO Light Middleweight Championship of the World

2005
Jan  7 Jorge Teixeira Pina        Lugo, Spain                        TK  5
Mar  4 Albert Airapetian          Leon, Spain                        KO 11
          -WBC Latino Light Middleweight Championship
Oct  5 Alvaro Moreno Gamboa       La Linea, Spain                    KO  2
          -WBC Latino Light Middleweight Championship
Nov  4 Tamaz Tskrialashvili       Leganes, Spain                     TK  6

2006
Apr  1 Presente Brito             Estadio Rayo Vallecano, Spain      TK  1
May 26 Vasile Surcica             Ibiza, Spain                        W 12
          -WBC Latino Light Middleweight Championship
Oct  7 Oliver Tchinda             Fuenlabrada, Spain                 KO  5

2007
Apr 27 Saul Roman                 Houston, Tx                        KO  4
Oct  6 Pavel Florin Madalin       Madrid, Spain                      TK  4
Dec  6 Russell Jordan             Bronx, NY                          TK  4

2008
Feb 16 David Toribio              Las Vegas, Nv                       W  4
Jun  7 Archak TerMeliksetian      Uncasville, Ct                     TK  7
Oct  4 Alex Bunema                Temecula, Ca                       TK  8
          -WBC Light Middleweight Championship of the World

2009
Feb 14 Kermit Cintron             Sunrise, Fl                         D 12
          -WBC Light Middleweight Championship of the World
Dec  5 Paul Williams              Atlantic City, NJ                   L 12

2010
Apr 17 Kelly Pavlik               Atlantic City, NJ                   W 12
          -WBC Middleweight Championship of the World;
          WBO Middleweight Championship of the World
Nov 20 Paul Williams              Atlantic City, NJ                  KO  2
          -WBC Middleweight Championship of the World

2011
Mar 12 Serhiy Dzinziruk           Mashantucket, Ct                   TK  8
          -WBC Middleweight Championship of the World
Oct  1 Darren Barker              Atlantic City, NJ                  KO 11
          -WBC Middleweight Championship of the World

2012
Mar 17 Matthew Macklin            New York, NY                       TK 11
          -WBC Middleweight Championship of the World
Sep 15 Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.     Las Vegas, Nv                       W 12
          -WBC Middleweight Championship of the World

2013
Apr 27 Martin Murray              Buenos Aires, Argentina             W 12
          -WBC Middleweight Championship of the World
2014
Jun  7 Miguel Angel Cotto         New York, NY                       LT 10
          -WBC Middleweight Championship of the World

Review courtesy of Tracy Callis, Historian, International Boxing Research Organization
 
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