Paul Williams Wins a Close, Exciting Fight with Sergio Martinez

In Atlantic City, the man labeled the most feared fighter in boxing, Paul "the Punisher" Williams, won a close exciting fight with Sergio Martinez. Williams was initially slated to fight middle weight champion Kelly Pavlik but Pavlik pulled out of their fight twice citing a staff infection.

Sergio Martinez one of the top 154 lb fighters moved up in weight to fight Williams in a middle weight non title fight instead.

Williams started off strong as he does in most of his fights being the more aggressive fighter coming forward and throwing high volume punches. One long punch from an odd angle landed on Martinez knocking him off balance and sending him down to the canvas.

Martinez got up not showing any visible pain and even knocked Williams down hard from a big right hand as the round concluded.

Martinez began to counter Williams with big right hands and strong right hooks that landed quite frequently and cleanly to the face causing Williams to be rocked and be thrown off his fight plan for the majority of the early rounds.

As the fight went on to the middle and late rounds both fighters continued to fight with fight of the year worthy action round after round. It was toe to toe action trading shots and such close range that the referee had to split both fighters up several times over and over.

Many ring side press media experts had the fight judged a close one and most commonly a draw. The official judges of the fight had it: 114 to 114, 115 to 113, and 119 to 110.

All three judges were American and many had cried a biased judging for the American fighter Paul Williams who. Even HBO commentator Max Kellerman took a minute to call out judge Pierre Benoist who was the judge who scored it 119 to 110 for Williams.

In the post fight interview Williams said he was open to fighting rematch with Martinez and stated that he is always willing to take on the hardest fights out there.