Chavez vs. Martinez

By Dan Ambrose: WBC president Jose Suliaman isn’t saying he’ll strip WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. if he fails to defend his World Boxing Council title next against his mandatory challenger Sergio Martinez but it sure sounds like Suliaman is hinting awfully hard that he might do exactly that in his press release [...]

WORLD BOXING COUNCIL NEWS February 14, 2012 – Mexico City. From WBC President Dr. José Sulaimán:

By Dan Ambrose: According to writer Ronnie Nathanielsz at Manila Standard, he was informed by WBC president Jose Sulaiman that WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. has agreed to face WBC Diamond middleweight champion Sergio Martinez if he makes it past Matthew Macklin on March 17th.

By Dan Ambrose: Top Rank promoter Bob Arum has made his mind up that his young mini-cash cow fighter WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (45-0-1, 31 KO’s) won’t be fighting former WBC middleweight champ Sergio Martinez (48-2-2, 27 KO’s) in Chavez’s next title defense.

By Dan Ambrose: The World Boxing Council (WBC) has made WBC Diamond middleweight champion Sergio Martinez (48-2-2, 27 KO’s) the mandatory challenger to WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (45-0-1, 31 KO’s), meaning that the young 25-year-old Chavez Jr. will have to face Martinez next, as long as Martinez wins his March 17th fight [...]

By Dan Ambrose: Right about now Bob Arum, the promoter for WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (44-0-1, 31 KO’s), has a lot of soul searching to do after the World Boxing Council mandated in their last meeting that Arum’s fighter Chavez Jr. must fight former WBC champ Sergio Martinez (48-2-2, 27 KO’s) next.

By Dan Ambrose: At the WBC’s 49th annual convention the WBC determined that World Boxing Council middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (44-0-1, 31 KO’s) must face former WBC middleweight champ Sergio Martinez (48-2-2, 27 KO’s) unless Chavez Jr. and Martinez can agree to fight other opponents rather than each other.

WORLD BOXING COUNCIL NEWS December 15, 2011 – Las Vegas Thursday was the last working day of the WBC’s 49th annual convention, led by WBC President Jose Sulaiman at Mandalay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas. Delegates can enjoy a free day on Friday and the fight card here on Friday night.

By Allen Fox: Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (44-0-1, 31 KO’s) may fight Darren Barker in his next bout, but he may be doing that without his WBC middleweight title unless he defends the title against mandatory challenger former WBC middleweight champion Sergio Martinez (48-2-2, 27 KO’s).

By Chris Williams:: Oscar De La Hoya is open to putting together a fight between his guy WBC junior middleweight champion Saul Alvarez and WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. at a catch weight of 156 pounds instead of at 154, Alvarez’s weight, or 160, the weight class that Chavez Jr. fights ago.

By Dan Ambrose: Former WBC middleweight champion Sergio Martinez is counting on getting a fight against WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr (43-0-1, 30 KO’s) in the first part of 2012. If not, then Martinez will go ahead and fight #1 WBC ranked contender Marco Antonio Rubio in place of Chavez Jr. However, Martinez [...]

By Dan Ambrose: Former WBC middleweight champion Sergio Martinez may wind up getting a title shot against the newly crowned WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. The World Boxing Council president Jose Sulaiman reportedly is saying that Chavez Jr. has a voluntary defense of his WBC title for his next fight but after that [...]

By Chris Williams: The World Boxing Council (WBC) has made unbeaten Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (41-0-1, 30 KO’s) the mandatory challenger for WBC middleweight champion Sergio Martinez, meaning that Martinez will have to fight the 24-year-old Chavez Jr. after Martinez fights his next voluntary defense, which will likely be against Paul Williams.