While lineal middleweight champion Sergio Martinez had a 2011 campaign that was definitely successful, with two HBO-televised victories over opponents with a combined 60-0 record with 37 knockouts, it goes without saying that it didn?t quite stack up to his marvelous 2010 run.
In that year Martinez would pull of an upset over Kelly Pavlik in April as he rallied late in the fight after being knocked down midway and followed that up seven months later with a chilling, second-round knockout over Paul Williams in Atlantic City. Those two outings led Martinez to collect Fighter of the Year honors and bigger things seemed to be just around the corner for him.
