Chavez Jr. to fight on June 22nd against Macklin or Vera

By Boxing News - 03/29/2013 - Comments

chavez423By Dan Ambrose: Former WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (46-1-1, 32 KO’s) says he’ll be back in the ring on June 22nd against Brian Vera (22-6, 13 KO’s) or Matthew Macklin (29-4, 20 KO’s) in Mexico. Chavez Jr. says he’ll be staying with his trainer Freddie Roach. Chavez Jr. had been trainer shopping after his loss to Sergio Martinez, but he’s decided to stay with Roach.

Chavez Jr. is currently still serving a suspension for testing positive for marijuana from his last fight against Sergio Martinez last September. The suspension ends on June 16th.

What’s interesting about Chavez Jr’s June 22nd fight on HBO is that his promoter Bob Arum is running it against Showtime’s arguably much bigger fight on the same night between Adrien Broner and WBA World welterweight champion Paulie Malignaggi. Arum doesn’t see any problem with putting his fights up against other promoters’ fights on the same night. In this case his card will be competing with Golden Boy Promotions.

Chavez Jr. said to deportes.univision “Matthew Macklin and Brian Vera. These are two names that we’re looking at. Both are known globally and are ranked. No, I will not change coaches. I will continue with Freddie Roach…Sure, the rematch with ‘Maravilla’ has to take place because it’s what the people want.”

One thing that Chavez Jr. shouldn’t be doing is assuming he’ll get past Vera or Macklin because those guys would have a great chance at beating Chavez Jr. with the way he fought in his last bout against Martinez.

If Chavez Jr. wants the rematch with Martinez then he’s going to have to agree to accept random blood testing during the training period for the fight because Martinez says he won’t bother fighting Chavez Jr. this time unless he agrees to the testing.



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