By Dan Ambrose: Top Rank promoter Bob Arum says he plans on getting his suspended and heavily fined fighter Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (46-1-1, 32 KO’s) back in the ring on June 16th, either in Mexico or Texas. Chavez Jr. received a 9 month suspension and a $900,000 fine from the Nevada State Athletic Commission earlier today for his positive marijuana test dating back to his fight against Sergio Martinez last September. The suspension ends on June 15th, so Arum has him booked a day later against one of six possible opponents.
Arum said to ESPN “He’s [Chavez Jr] going to fight on June 16, we’ve cleared it with the Commission…we’re not going to take this fight to Las Vegas anyway. We have a hold on a building in Texas or we may do the fight in the new arena in Mexico City.”
Chavez Jr. will have to pay the $900K fine, there’s no way getting around that. He can’t get out of the hefty fine simply by not fighting in Las Vegas anymore.
According to Rafael, the Nevada Commission executive director Keith Kizer says that if Chavez Jr. refuses to pay the fine and avoids fighting in Las Vegas, they’ll be able to get the money by “attaching his purse paid by another commission.” I’m sure that Chavez Jr. wouldn’t avoid paying the fine, but just in case he does it doesn’t look like it would work out judging by what Kizer is saying.
As for Chavez Jr’s possible opponents for his June 16th fight date, he’ll likely be facing someone like Matthew Macklin, Brian Vera, Marco Antonio Rubio, Darren Barker, or Matt Karobov. We won’t see Chavez Jr. fighting for a world title against the likes of WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin. That would be too tough of a fight for Chavez Jr., and he’d likely lose badly. My guess is Chavez Jr. fights Macklin or Rubio next.
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