By Jason Kim: This Saturday night, unbeaten middleweight contender Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (41-0-1, 30 KO’s) will face the smaller junior middleweight Billy Lyell (22-8, 4 KO’s) in a 12 round bout at the Estadio Banorte, in Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico. Chavez Jr. is ranked an incredible number #1 by the WBC and needs a win over the 5’9″ Lyell to get a title shot against the newly appointed WBC middleweight champion Sebastian Zbik next. It would have been nice had Chavez’s handlers put him in with a middleweight contender, even a fringe one, instead of the much smaller light middleweight Lyell.
Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.
Julio Chavez Jr
Julio Cesar Chavez junior vs. Saul Alvarez vs. David Lemieux: Promoters could makes these fights reality
By Francisco Hernandez: It could be that in the proximate future Julio Cesar Chavez junior could be fighting David Lemieux. If Lemieux gets past Marco Antonio Rubio he will be in position to fight Chavez junior if Chavez gets a win against Billy Lyell and then titlist Sebastian Zbik of Germany.
Roach thinks Chavez Jr. will be a champion
By Eric Thomas: According to the latest boxing news, Freddie Roach, the trainer for unbeaten Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (41-0-1, 30 KO’s), thinks that Chavez Jr. will soon be the middleweight champion and thinks he can be a great fighter. Chavez Jr. is facing fringe junior middleweight contender Billy Lyell (22-8, 4 KO’s) on Saturday night at the Estadio Banorte, in Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico. The fight is a tune-up/stepping stone to the 24-year-old Chavez’s fight against WBC middleweight paper champion Sebastian Zbik in May.
Chavez vs. Lyell: Billy says he’s 100% ready for Saturday’s clash
By Jason Kim: Unbeaten middleweight contender Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (41-0-1, 30 KO’s) is probably facing the best opponent of his eight year pro career this Saturday night against 26-year-old Billy Lyell (22-8, 4 KO’s) at the Estadio Banorte, Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico. Chavez, 24, has effectively been filling in for not having much of an amateur career by extending his time facing B and C level fighters.
Julio Cesar Chavez Junior: Many don’t believe in him
By Francisco Hernandez: Julio Cesar Chavez junior has not fought in his homeland of Sinaloa for over six years. Now he will be amongst his people once again when he fights Billy Lyell on the 29 of January 2011. It makes sense that Chavez junior fight in his hometown because that is surely his last remaining fan base. Chavez junior has turned into a typical Arum fighter, reminds one of Nonito Donaire, Manny Pacquiao and other sheltered or well matched boxing stars.
Top Rank and the WBC will reach their objective with Chavez Jr.
By Reynaldo Sanchez: What doe’s mean “Emeritus”?, In accordance with ‘ Wilkipedia “The term is used when a person of importance in a given profession retires and/or hands over the position, so that his former rank can still be used in his title. This is particularly useful when establishing the authority of a person who might comment, lecture or write on a particular subject. The word is typically used as a postpositional adjective but can also be used as a preposition adjective.
Chavez Jr. to face Zbik for WBC crown after the Lyell fight
By Dan Ambrose: It sure helps being the son of boxing great Julio Cesar Chavez. Unbeaten middleweight contender Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (41-0-1, 30 KO’s), who has faced only one fringe contender during his entire eight-year pro career, will be fighting for the WBC middleweight title this year against the new paper title holder Sebastian Zbik after the German fighter was appointed the title by the World Boxing Council.
WBC makes Sergio Martinez Emeritus champion, clears the way for Chavez Jr. to fight for title
By Dan Ambrose: The World Boxing Council basically cleared the way for unbeaten middleweight contender Julio Cesar Chavez (41-0-1, 30 KO’s) to fight for the WBC middleweight title without risking getting his head taken off by moving the current WBC middleweight champion Sergio Martinez (46-2-2, 25 KO’s) into the position of Emeritus champion after only one title defense. This allows the 24-year-old Chavez Jr., the son of boxing great Julio Cesar Chavez, to fight Sebastian Zbik (30-0, 10 KO’s), who the WBC has now made the WBC champion, for the title this year after Chavez Jr. defeats the light hitting 2nd tier junior middleweight Billy Lyell (22-8, 4 KO’s) on January 29th.
Chavez-Lyell: Julio needs this fight to get to Zbik
By Dan Ambrose: Unbeaten middleweight contender Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (41-0-1, 30 KO’s) has what his handlers hope will be an easy fight against junior middleweight Billy Lyell (22-8, 4 KO”s) on January 29th at the Estadio Banorte, in Culiacan, Mexico. Chavez, 24, is being matched up with a guy that’s smaller than him and who doesn’t even fight in the same division as him. Lyell is a junior middleweight and is three inches shorter than the 6 foot Chavez.
Chavez Jr. to face Lyell on Jan 29th, wants Zbik
By Dan Ambrose: Number #1 ranked WBC middleweight contender Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. 41-0-1, 30 KO’s) fights the much smaller 2nd tier junior middleweight Billy Lyell (22-8, 4 KO’s) on January 29th in a 10 round bout in Coluacan, Sinaloa, Mexico. Chavez, 24, now trained by Freddie Roach, hopes to defeat the small 5’9″ Lyell and then take on the WBC middleweight interim champion Sebastian Zbik (30-0, 10 KO’s) after that.