Monday afternoon at the Fortune Gym, Sergio Martinez
had his media day. Lou DiBella, his promoter, was there. I asked Lou what he
thought of a bet WBC President-for-Life Jose Sulaiman had made with my leaveitintheringradio.com co-host David Duenez, picking Chavez
Jr. The bet was dinner, which I did not include in my original question but
mentioned to Lou later. But in the interim, he went off and people filmed it
and made it into a story.
As Lou would tell me, he was overzealous.
“While I prefer he didn’t make a dinner bet,” Lou
told me later in the evening, “it’s not a federal offense. I overreacted.”
I gotta say, it brought a little life into the
presser. Martinez appears very focused on the task at hand. His normally longer
answers were short across the board.
I cannot wait for this fight.
