By Dan Ambrose: WBC middleweight champion Sergio “Maravilla” Martinez (50-2-2, 28 KO’s) isn’t going to make it easy for former WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (46-1-1, 32 KO’s) to try and get revenge against him in a rematch. Martinez wants Chavez Jr. to first agree to have anti-doping tests in the lead up to their possible September rematch before Martinez will agree to fight him again. Chavez Jr. has been caught in the past with diuretics in his system before one of his fights.
Martinez said on his twitter “Jr. [Chavez Jr] shouldn’t talk about revenge. First, [there needs to be] anti-doping controls that he accepts, because there’s not the slightest option [the fight will take place without them.”
Diuretics is a weight water draining drug that some fighters use to lose a lot of water weight so that they can fight in weight classes that their body would normally not let them fight in. The fighters use the diuretics to make weight and then they rehydrate back up to a much higher weight than what they weighed in for.
Chavez Jr. was also recently caught with marijuana in his system for his last fight against Martinez last September.
It looks like Martinez is getting really serious about wanting to have Chavez Jr. tested in the lead up to the fight. I don’t know if Martinez suspects that Chavez Jr. is using performance enhancing drugs or if he’s trying some gamesmanship to mess with his mind. However, if Martinez does insist on the blood testing to be done during the training up until the day before the fight it’s going to be really interesting to see if Chavez Jr. will agree to all of those tests.
It would make sense for him to agree to them because it might be the only way he can get the fight, but some fighters don’t like being told they have to jump through hoops in order to get the fight.
Martinez is fighting on April 27th against unbeaten Martin Murray in Argentina. If Martinez wins this fight he’ll likely look towards a rematch with Chavez Jr. for September at the Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas.
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