Chavez Jr. TKOs Manfredo; Clottey stops Green
November 19th, 2011
By Dan Ambrose: A huge looking WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (44-0-1, 31 KO’s) defeated hand-picked opponent Peter Manfredo Jr. (37-7, 20 KO’s) in a 5th round stoppage tonight at the Reliant Arena in Houston, Texas. Chavez Jr. hurt Manfredo with a right hand in the 5th and then flurried on him until referee Lawrence Cole stopped the fight. It looked like a really premature stoppage, however, as Manfredo may have been able to recover.
With this win, Chavez Jr. is now going to have to make a huge decision whether to fight former WBC middleweight champion Sergio Martinez next or not. The WBC is saying that Chavez Jr. will have to fight Martinez next and Chavez has said he will do that. However, he would most definitely lose and lose badly to Martinez if the fight were to be made. It’s likely Chavez Jr. will vacate the title rather than facing Martinez and getting knocked out or easily beaten.
After the fight, Chavez Jr. said he’d leave it up to his promoter who he fights next but it’ll be between the following fighters: Saul Alvarez and Sergio Martinez.
In other action on the card:
Joshua Clottey TKO 2 Calvin Green
Marcus Johnson UD 6 Billy Bailey
Mickey Bey Jr UD 8 Hector Velazquez
Ivan Otero MD 4 Gino Escamilla
Wale Omotoso UD 8 Lanardo Tyner
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WBC needs to force Chavez to the ring to defend his title against Martinez or strip him of the title and ask Martinez and Rubio to fight for the belt.
Rubio Vs Martinez would be such a great fight.. PPV money in this one.
Chavez vs cotto
manfredo is a C or D level pug. garbageman type. nice guy though.
They show’d Sergio Martinez at the fight like this was suppose to be some indication he’s going to be a future opponenet for Chavez.
wow there are a lot of very very ignorant people on this forum that are completely cluless about boxing, chavez jr is a fraud and a c omplete joke, he has fought nobodies with a super super low knock out %. he has cancelled 3 fights in the past due to from what ive heard binge drinking and coke! this fool will be his own worst enemy just like his father, the apple doesn’t fall to far from the tree, just watch how he self destructs,
Premature stoppage, are you kidding? I thought it should have been stopped a bit earlier. Manfredo was wobbling all over the place, sinking on the ropes, not throwing anything back.
I’d like to see Chavez vs Canelo, and the winner battling Martinez.
A pre mature stoppage indeed .He landed a clean shot but missed a lot on his finishing flurry.The reff. once again failed the boxing fans on a decent fight.
If Manfredo is # 4, then boxing middlewieght division is the worse it has been since it,e inception.
Chavez summed up in one word. Overrated!
i laugh at guys who go base of of records lol records are only as impressive as the opponents you face chavez has a good record but not really stepped up to the big dogs yet
Martinez overrated, put him in there wit Clottey.
another record for pac imagine he survives almost 20 foot stopper! attack by JMM…hes the greatest boxer ver no one can do that even in the movies ive watched..all of them was knock out…another record for pacman this time….10 20 its nothing to beat pacquaio….this only means that no one can beat him even those dirty tactics…his the greatest boxer ever been born…thats imposible…FOOT STOPPER COULD BEAT PACQUIAO!!!
most of the guys cant wait ,,,,just wait for the fight before making any comments….chavez is undefeated high KO record…i choose chavez vs martinez…the record is martinez 48 w 27 ko 2 loss while chavez jr 44w 31 ko 0 loss wew!! great this is great..2 loss for martinez ..im on chavez but if knock out chavez his the best to much up pacquaio.
chavez has bettr record than floyd why not see for it..floyd advantage is he is an african american,,,,….
well i for one didn’t see this mess, chavez is a fake and a paper champion and a good for nothing want to be! this guy is feeding of his dad’s name if he want respect he will have to earn it, Maraavilla and canelo are waiting by the phone.
Chavez is a BUM! Face Martinez you coward!
@Big brown Doggy
Get real Maravilla is #2 p4p, everybody knows who he is. Chavez jr is just a bum. A scared little boy thats been using his daddy’s name.
Chavez needs to man up already and fight Sergio Martinez!
Canelo is next. Big money there. Nobody knows Martinez.
He basically said that he respects Maravilla and thinks he is a good fighter. He also said that he wants to fight the best opposition but it does not depend only on him, basically saying that it is his promoter who decides who he will be facing next. At the end he said that he fears no one.
I hope this means that he could fight either: Maravilla, Canelo or the fight that I would like to see the most, against Veneno Rubio.
Would someone please be kind enough to relay to me what Chavez jr said in the post fight interview? I heard them ask about maravilla but couldn’t hear the response. Thanks in advance!