By Dan Ambrose: Former WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr (48-1-1, 31 KOs) is once again unloading on WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (32-0, 29 KOs) in giving his opinion of his talent. Chavez Jr sees Golovkin as nothing special as a fighter, and he says that they should fight each other.
If Golovkin wins, he gets $2 million. If he just wins a decision then nobody gets the money. It’s assumed that Chavez Jr would want to get $2 million if he knocks Golovkin out.
Golovkin will only be gaining $1 million if he were to KO Chavez Jr, who is known for having one of the strongest chins in the sport.
“I put one million dollars. He, Golovkin, put a million dollars too. He, Golovkin, knock me out, he wins the two million, but he win a decision or I win a decision, then nobody wins the money,” Chavez Jr said via Fighthype.com. “I don’t see nothing special in the skills for Golovkin.”
Golovkin would obviously have to move up in weight to take the fight with Chavez Jr, and the only thing we don’t know is whether the fight would take place at 168 or at 172, like Chavez Jr’s fight against Andrzej Fonfara. Asking Golovkin to come up to 168 and potentially face a guy weighing in the 190s is one thing, but if Golokvin has to fight Chavez Jr at 172, then it’s going to be a lot tougher.
Golovkin can do it, but I don’t think it’s going to be realistic to ask him to knockout Chavez Jr if he’s weighing close to 200 pounds. If the weight is at 172 then you have to figure that Chavez Jr will rehydrate to the mid-190s.
Chavez Jr recently said this about Golovkin on his twitter:
”Without his [Golovkin] power, he’s not that good of a boxer. I’ll bet you GGG a million dollars of the purse that I’ll knock you out if we fight. Come to my weight class GGGboxing, 168 or 170. But first, I need to beat Andrzej Fonfara and he is bigger and stronger.”
There is no 170 pound weight class. Chavez Jr is obviously talking about another catch-weight above the super middleweight division. I don’t see why Chavez Jr doesn’t just move up to light heavyweight and get it over with instead of fighting at catch-weights in the light heavyweight division.
This is similar to what Saul “Canelo” Alvarez is doing in fighting his opponents at catch-weights of 155 pounds in the middleweight division instead of at junior middleweight.
Boxing fans are starting to wonder why the red-headed, 24-year-old Canelo simply doesn’t move up to the middleweight division and fight guys at a legitimate weight rather than fighting guys at a made up weight of 155. It’s strange. If there were another sport it would look odd if there were catch-weights involved for guys looking to gain an edge.
Chavez Jr will be fighting next month on April 18th against Fonfara at the SubHub Center in Carson, California. We still don’t know for sure if the fight will take place though, because Chavez Jr’s past promoter Bob Arum is looking to stop the fight from taking place due to him saying that Chavez Jr still has one fight left on his contract with Top Rank.
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