Chavez-Zbik

By Jim Dower: The June 4th HBO televised fight between the highly popular Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (42-0-1, 30 KO’s) and WBC middleweight champion Sebastian Zbik (30-0, 10 KO’s) will be taking place in Los Angeles, California.

By Jim Dower: Like someone that’s not satisfied with what they have on their own plate, unbeaten Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (42-0-1, 30 KO’s) is eying a future fight against unbeaten WBC junior middleweight champion Saul Alvarez (36-0-1, 26 KO’s) in a fight that Chavez Jr sees as a huge fight that their Mexicans will [...]

By Dan Ambrose: If former WBC middleweight champion Sergio Martinez (46-2-2, 25 KO’s) gets his way he’ll be fighting the winner of the June 4th clash between WBC champion Sebastian Zbik (30-0, 10 KO’s) and challenger Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (42-0-1, 30 KO’s) next in 2011.

By Dan Ambrose: It sure doesn’t hurt being the son of a boxing great like Julio Cesar Chavez. His son, unbeaten middleweight contender Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (42-0-1, 30 KO’s), faces WBC middleweight champion Sebastian Zbik (30-0, 10 KO’s) on June 4th on HBO. Zbik, 28, is considered a paper champion by a lot of [...]

By Eric Thomas: Number #1 ranked WBC middleweight contender Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (42-0-1, 30 KO’s) will be facing undefeated WBC middleweight champion Sebastian Zbik (30-0, 10 KO’s) on June 4th without a tune-up bout to get ready for the fight. Chavez Jr., the son of former boxing world champion Julio Cesar Chavez, was supposed [...]

By José Sulaimán: The Sulaiman-Chagnon families are going through deep sadness, indignation and consternation. Federico Safi Chagnón was a good man, known by his heart of compassion, and always living for the service of the needed; a highly respected citizen at his home town and state, where he went to school, worked, succeeded and always [...]

By Dan Ambrose: HBO is interested in buying the June 4th proposed fight between Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (42-0-1, 30 KO’s) and WBC middleweight champion Sebastian Zbik (30-0, 10 KO’s), according to Dan Rafael of ESPN.

By Jim Dower: Earlier today, there was talk that strength trainer Alex Ariza had been dismissed as part of Julio Cesar Chavez Jr’s team. This was after Ariza had already been let go by WBA Super World light welterweight champion Amir Khan recently. However, as it turns out, the rumors were false about Ariza being [...]

By Chris Williams: Top Rank promoter Bob Arum said that his unbeaten fighter WBC Silver middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (42-0-1, 30 KO’s) and undefeated WBC Silver junior middleweight champion Saul Alvarez (35-0-1, 26 KO’s) will never fight because Chavez Jr. is “too big” for Alvarez to fight. This seems kind of silly given [...]

By Dan Ambrose: Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (42-0-1, 30 Ko’s) will be facing WBC middleweight champion Sebastian Zbik (30-0, 10 KO’s) in May. If Chavez defeats Zbik, which is likely because is a very average fighter that the WBC bestowed on him their title without him having to fight for it, then Chavez Jr. could [...]

By Eric Thomas: Unbeaten middleweight contender Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (42-0-1, 30 KO’s) could be one of the lucky beneficiaries of having his next fight in May against WBC middleweight champion Sebastian Zbik (30-0, 10 KO’s) shown on CBS. Bob Arum, the promoter for Chavez Jr., recently signed a deal with CBS/Showtime to put the [...]

By Dan Ambrose: If you look at the condition that unbeaten middleweight contender Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (42-0-1, 30 KO’s) was in for his last fight this past weekend against journeyman Billy Lyells (22-9, 4 KO’s), it’s hard to miss the fact that Chavez Jr. looked kind of flabby and out of shape compared to [...]

By Eric Thomas: According to the latest boxing news, Top Rank promoter Bob Arum is thinking about putting his fighter Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (42-0-1, 30 KO’s) against WBC middleweight champion Sebastian Zbik (30-0, 10 KO’s) on CBS/Showtime in a fight that could take place in the middle east says Steve Kim. By putting the [...]

From the office of World Boxing Council (WBC) President Dr. José Sulaimán: The following is one of the weekly “Hook to the Liver” columns by WBC President Dr. José Sulaimán that are published in El Universal every Sunday. From January 23, translated from Spanish: HOOK TO THE LIVER

The World Boxing Council (WBC) is proud to announce the appointment of Sergio Martinez as Emeritus Champion. Sergio Martinez is a two-time world champion, as he conquered the WBC super welterweight championship and then defeated great champion Kelly Pavlik to conquer the WBC middleweight championship.

By Dan Ambrose: Unbeaten middleweight contender Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (41-0-1, 30 KO’s) could be fighting World Boxing Council (WBC) middleweight interim champion Sebastian Zbik (30-0, 10 KO’s) in early 2011, according to news from examiner.com. Chavez, who only fought once in 2010, is looking for a fight in the early part of 2011. He [...]

By Jason Kim: According to the latest news, undefeated Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (41-0-1, 30 KO’s) could be fighting unbeaten World Boxing Council interim middleweight champion Sebastian Zbik (29-0, 10 KO’s) next rather than the full WBC middleweight champion Sergio Martinez. This is would give Chavez’s trainer Freddie Roach another fight to work on technique [...]