Full Name: Sergio Gabriel Martinez
Nickname: Maravilla
Weight Class: Middleweight
Birthdate: February 21, 1975
Birthplace: Quilmes, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Record: 45-2-2, 24 KOs
Stance: Southpaw
Height: 5'10"
Reach: 76"
Trainer: Juan Leon Diaz

Accomplishments

• WBC Super Welterweight Champion, May 21, 2009 to April 17, 2010
• WBC Middleweight Champion, April 17, 2010 to present
• WBO Middleweight Champion, April 17, 2010 to present
• The Ring Middleweight Champion, April 17, 2010 to present

Biography

Sergio Gabriel Martinez is an Argentine Middleweight professional boxer based in Oxnard, California. He is the current WBC, WBO and The Ring World Middleweight Champion, and WBC Light Middleweight Champion, The Ring Magazine currently rates Martinez as the number eight P4P boxer in the world.

Martinez was a former professonal cyclist and soccer player, and only began his boxing career at the age of 20. His professional record consists of 45 wins, 2 losses and 2 draws. Perhaps his most notable wins came against Kelly Pavlik, a fight in which he bcame the Middleweight champion.

Martinez had his first professional fight on December 27, 1997 in Ituzaingo, Buenos Aires, Argentina against an opponent named Christian Marcelo Vivas, who was disqualified in the second round, giving Martinez his first win. Martinez fought the first 17 fights of his career in hs native Argentina, compiling a record of 16-0-1.