Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. turns 26 today, will fight on June 2nd in Los Angeles likley against Margarito
February 16th, 2012
By Jason Kim: WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (45-0-1, 31 KO’s) turned 26-years-old today, and his promoter Bob Arum is planning on bringing him back for his next fight on June 2nd at either the Staples Center or the Home Depot Center in Los Angeles, according to Steve Kim at Maxboxing.com.
Lee is a strong possibility, but he may lose out due his southpaw stance, his two-fisted power and his ability to move around the ring. A fight between Lee and Chavez Jr. might turn out to be a mismatch because of all the things that Lee can do in the ring. He fight in close, fight at a distance and he can also move really well.
Lee is like the Wladimir Klitschko in the middleweight division and that’s not a good thing for a one-paced plodder with average power power and limited defensive skills. Arum might be using Lee’s name to disguise who he might really want to put in with Chavez Jr. and that’s probably going to be 33-year-old Margarito. Arum has to find a money fight for Margarito and there really isn’t too many big fights out there in terms of in house fights, which is what Arum will likely do.
Arum won’t put Margarito in with a top junior middleweight contender like James Kirkland, Saul Alvarez or Sergiy Dzinziruk. Margarito would get torn apart by either. There’s really on Chavez Jr. The World Boxing Council President Jose Suliaman says he won’t give his blessing for a fight between Chavez Jr. and Margarito, but I think at the end of the day Arum will make that fight anyway.
Lee will be just be used as a name to make it seem like there’s choices, but I think Arum is looking at Margarito all the way as the guy to put in with Chavez Jr. It’ll be an in house Top Rank fight and Chavez Jr. will remain unbeaten, winning on size along against the aging Margarito. The fight will make more money than Lee vs. Chavez Jr. but at the cost of being seen as a joke by hardcore boxing fans.
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Julio Cesar Chavez Jr and his Udad and bob arum are a bunch of drunk crooks.
Chavez jr is a coward that needs to find another job.
Pacquiao & Chavez Jr 2 biggest jokes in Boxing.
Fcuk Chavez & Bob please die soon you crook
On May 6th you internet idiots will have to come up with some excuses for Cotto. FMJ will be a champion at 154. You can always go to your normal move of trying to insult a man who loves to be hated. You will buy the ppv, dummies.
Where do these fans come from? Do they even try to be sensible about boxing? This is a horrible match up. Margarito has the heart to fight anyone. But to fight his overgrown middleweight with a bad right eye is insane. Margo will be out weighed by 20 ibs. on fight night and is slow and easy to hit. In fact he invites you to hit him. That eye could be permanently damaged. He should not be given a license.
chavez will suffer his first proffessional lost against margarito . It be a good setup for magarito and cotto part lll . Dallas Cowboys Stadium
i hate bob arum he is killing boxing
they should put this fight as a co-main event for the pacquiao-bradley fight. just like mosley-alvarez is for the mayweather-cotto.
Any attempt at PPV would be even bigger insult to boxing fans.
Not surprised if that happens bob aru is a joke
he should fight canelo!
jccj and mp are the today’s biggest frauds in boxing!
Who cares?