By Dan Ambrose: If there’s one thing that WBC Diamond middleweight champion Sergio Martinez can do to help improve his chances of beating WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. in their fight on September 15th, it’s for Martinez to make sure that the ring size is a normal sized championship ring and not the small ring that Chavez Jr. used to defeat Andy Lee last Saturday night in El Paso, Texas.

Being the champion, Chavez Jr., his promoter Bob Arum and trainer Freddie Roach, will likely try and push for a tiny ring for the Chavez Jr-Martinez fight in order to give Chavez Jr. a big edge in the fight.

The smaller the ring the easier it will be for the heavy-footed, plodding Chavez Jr. to cut off the ring on Martinez and force him into an inside fight like Chavez Jr. was able to do against Andy Lee. Martinez isn’t a great inside fighter like Chavez Jr. and he’s probably going to be outweighed by as much as 15 pounds at the minimum by Chavez Jr. on September 15th.

As such, it’s imperative that Martinez doesn’t let Chavez Jr. get a small ring in order for him to be able to trap Martinez. The fighters need to agree on a mid-level ring if there’s an issue. I can see this thing being an issue that caused a lot of problems in the negotiations because Chavez Jr’s team will, knowing they have a slow fighter with limited offensive skills on the outside, will likely be trying their utmost to get as small a ring as possible for him to have a better chance of beating Martinez.