Boxing: Martinez ‘danced’ to train for fight

WASHINGTION: Argentina’s Sergio Martinez is set to fight WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Junior this weekend in Las Vegas with one fighter promising punishment and the other warning his opponent to prepare for retirement. “I trained a long time dancing,” said Martinez at the final pre-fight news conference. “That’s all I need to break his face a thousand times. I will punish him a lot and then I will knock him out. He will suffer.” Not surprisingly, Chavez predicted a different outcome for his 37-year-old opponent when the two fighters meet on Saturday. “I’m not only going to beat you, I’m going to retire you,” said Chavez.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 14^th, 2012.