Potential opponents for Chavez Jr’s next bout: Saul Alvarez, Sergio Martinez, Andy Lee, & Marco Antonio Rubio
November 20th, 2011
By Dan Ambrose: Photo credit: Naoki Fakuda – WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. beat the fighter that his promotional company put in front of him last night in a 5th round TKO of Peter Manfredo Jr. in Houston, Texas. It was a so-so win for Chavez Jr. He finished strong but looked very average though most of the fight, certainly not good enough to beat the best fighters in the middleweight division like Sergio Martinez, Andy Lee, Peter Quillin, Dmitriy Pirog, Gennady Golovkin, or Felix Sturm, to name just a small handful of guys that look better than Chavez Jr.
Here’s the list of guys that his promoter will be picking from for Chavez’s next fight:
Saul Alvarez: This is the fight that Bob Arum wants for Chavez Jr. because there’s downside in this fight. Even if Chavez Jr. gets wiped out, it will still bring big money for all those involved.
Sergio Martinez: If you were to pick out the least likely opponent for Chavez Jr. in his next fight it would be this guy. Martinez is much too good for Chavez Jr. and there’s no way Arum will allow this fight to be made now or anytime soon unless Martinez suddenly becomes 100% shot.
Marco Antonio Rubio: This guy has got too much power, experience, skills and composure for Arum to risk putting Chavez Jr. in with him. We just saw Rubio beat a better fighter than Chavez Jr. in David Lemieux, who punches a lot harder than Chavez Jr. Arum won’t let Chavez Jr. tangle with this guy. Rubio can really punch and retains his power late in his fights without gassing out like a lot of fighters.
Andy Lee: Chavez Jr. would have a lot of problems with Lee, in particular with his southpaw stance, hand speed and power. Lee is just a much better fighter than Chavez Jr. can ever hope to be. It would be brutal early on, as Lee would be unloading everything but the kitchen sink on Chavez Jr. And later in the fight, after Chavez Jr. start to fade like he always does, Lee would be teeing off at will. No way does Lee get picked out for Chavez Jr’s next fight.
I doubt any of these guys will get selected by Arum to fight Chavez Jr. next. I know Arum badly wants the 21-year-old Alvarez next, but that fight won’t get made because of the problems with trying to find the correct weight, purse split, ring size and other matters. Chavez Jr. out-weighs Alvarez by a lot of weight, and that’s going to make it hard to put this fight together.
If I were to guess who will likely end up facing Chavez Jr. next it’ll probably be from this bunch of fighters:
Darren Barker
Domenico Spada
Koji Sato
Michael Oliveira
Grzegorz Proksa
Nobuhiro Ishida
By picking from this group, it will be in keeping with the B level quality that Chavez Jr. has been exclusively matched against his entire career. This will thus allow him to keep his unbeaten record intact and keep the gravy train flowing.
Tags: Chavez vs. Manfredo, Chavez-Manfredo ,Andy Lee, Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., Marco Antonio Rubio, Saul Alvarez, Sergio Martinez20 Responses to “Potential opponents for Chavez Jr’s next bout: Saul Alvarez, Sergio Martinez, Andy Lee, & Marco Antonio Rubio”
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To Bad you HATE Mexiacans & CHAVEZ would beat Everyone you mentioned & you kno it!!!!!!!
I thought the purpose of the Manfredo fight was to get Chavez to learn to be more patient and not gungho. Manfredo did well I thought be he has always lacked that edge, Chavez should fight Martinez.
Absolutely agree. Lee would wipe the floor with Chavez!! Way too skilled
With so many fights not being made, this division has become a farce. Sick, just sick. PIROG anyone?
@ Olberman Belts don’t mean anything, you should know that. All I expect are fighters to be challenged in each bout and that means matched up based on comparable skill levels — that makes an entertaining fight. Mismatches to defend, or win, a belt is waste of time. So again, as long as Chavez Jr is being challenged each time out, I’m okay with it.
patrick when you hold a belt that say’s champion you must cary what goes with it, and slack is not part of what goes with it, if he can’t fight the best out there then he needs to leave the belt to someon who can and get in line for an opportunity for when he is ready, champion means exactly that the best at that weight! a break means if he was top then or ranked #2 or #3 then he gets a break because that fightere is not claiming to be the best.
Alvarez will win Chavez on points…jr has bad stamina no head movement
Very slow
He should target Andy Lee next. He could win that one; that’s a good match-up. The other three would punish Chavez. As for Chavez being a “fraud, cut him some slack. He had no amateur career. He’s learning the “job” as a pro. Not an easy task. No, he’ll never be a top fighter, but if he’s matched well he can at least be entertaining.
The biggest FRaud in Boxing without any dought is Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FRAud Fraud Fraud Fraud
Darren Barker and Barker will win on points
He will fight Marco Antonio Rubio and Andy Lee,Daddy Arum won’t let him face Canelo,and they know he’ll lose to Martinez!!!Bob Arum once again get’s in the way of boxing!Saul Alvarez and Sergio Martinez will beat Chavez JR,you guy’s watch him beat up mediocare fighters and act like he’s the greatest…Bob Arum won’t risk his mid-level Cash cow,just like he won’t risk his prized Cash cow,the biggest farce in the history of boxing,Manny Pacquiao,the stealer and tarnisher of a real HOFer,and Legacy Juan Manuel Marquez,who fought too a draw 1 and what should have been 2 victories against a cheating,liar of a man,who has cheated the fans,other fighters,as well as himself out of the truth…
in summary the only thing chavez did last night is seal what everyone knows and that is that he is a pathetic individual that has a lot of limitations and is feeding of his father’s name. he is a paper champion and a c omplete joke, he represents everything that is wrong with boxing today and the corruption and manipulation, in essense he is a FRaud.
chavez jr, is expecting an HBO contract so he can do what bute does and that is to fight nobodies, he has zero intentions to actually fight Canelo, rubio and he will never i rrepeat never do a suicide fight against pound per pound kind maravilla.
roy jones is a has been that went to germany to make a fool out of himself he is a pathetic man that does’t have the common sense as to when to retire. so he is just bein diplomatic everytime he opens his pie hole.
Mike wicks must be on medication! chavez is not fighting neither one of these guys, maravilla will retire this paper champion that is and will continue on leaching of his father’s last name
first it controls your mind,
then it destroys your body
Chavez looked good last night, with the exception of his lack of defense. He really needs to step it up in terms of his level of opposition. Given his soft matchups, I’m sure Arum will choose the lesser of the opponents.
Andy Lee will not last 3 rounds with Chavez
You’re right Dan. Time for Chavez to step up.
He won’t fight any of these.