SERGIO “MARAVILLA” MARTINEZ VISITS WBC HEADQUARTERS IN MEXICO

World Boxing Council (WBC) Emeritus and Diamond middleweight champion Sergio “Maravilla” Martinez, who was unanimously elected as “Champion of the Year 2010,” and also awarded the “KO of the Year 2010,” visited Mexico to appear on a great reality show.

The WBC has ratified the status of the middleweight division.

Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. won the WBC middleweight world championship as a mandatory challenger by defeating former champion Sebastian Zbik by unanimous decision on June 4, 2011, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.

It is anticipated that Chavez and Martinez will meet in the first quarter of 2012 in a sensational showdown in the middleweight division.

Marco Antonio Rubio is the mandatory challenger of the division, and his time for the challenge, as stipulated in the WBC Rules and Regulations, is scheduled to be one year after the last mandatory fight in the division, which was Zbik vs. Chavez.

WBC Fall Schedule:

Sep. 8 – Wroclaw Stadium – Wroclaw, Poland

Heavyweight World Championship

Champion Vitali Klitschko vs. mandatory challenger Tomasz Adamek

Sep. 17 – MGM Grand – Las Vegas

Welterweight World Championship

Champion Victor Ortiz vs. Floyd Mayweather

Vacant Super Lightweight World Championship

Erik Morales vs. Jorge Rodrigo Barrios

Sep. 17 – Staples Center – Los Angeles

Super Welterweight World Championship

Champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez vs. Alfonso Gomez

Sep. 30 – Pechanga Resort – Temecula

Super Lightweight Final Eliminator

Ali Chebah vs. Ajose Olusegun

Oct. 1 – Boardwalk Hall – Atlantic City

WBC Diamond Middleweight Championship

Champion Sergio Martinez vs. Darren Barker

Oct. 1 – MGM Grand – Las Vegas

Super Bantamweight World Championship

Champion Toshiaki Nishioka vs. Rafael Marquez

Oct. 15 – Staples Center – Los Angeles

Light Heavyweight World Championship

Champion Bernard Hopkins vs. Chad Dawson

Vacant Lightweight World Championship

Jorge Linares vs. Antonio DeMarco

Oct. 29 – Boardwalk Hall – Atlantic City

Super Middleweight World Championship

Champion Carl Froch vs. WBA champion Andre Ward

Plus Super Six World Boxing Classic Final