By Adam Fillingham : Oh, it’s been so long since I’ve written. It’s good to be back. Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. Ranked by the World Boxing Council as the No.1 contender and No.3 by the World Boxing Organization. Respectable achievement for any fighter. But is anyone else thinking that this place is slightly exaggerated? By popularity alone? Of course money talks.

This popularity is most likely from his father, Mexican legend, six-time, three weight world champion Julio César Chavez. Chavez Sr. is still and always will be a Mexican legend, making his son the next best thing since sliced bread in Mexico. This is going to create a lot of talk around Chavez Jr., and talk makes money. And what does money do? It talks.

After spending a great deal of time going through Chavez Jr’s record of opponents I have noticed one glaring fact. He has not fought anyone of any great stature. Just on records alone 13 of his 41 opponents do not have winning records (two being debutants). Add to this 4 more fighters with ten or more losses on their records and you start to understand the picture.

Let’s now take a look at his more ‘skilled’ opponents.

Chavez Jr’s first none ‘spoon fed’ opponent was United States welterweight, Ruben Galvan with a record of 21-6-2. This on paper isn’t great for a fighter unbeaten in 19 (as he was at that point). Add to this that Galvan has now lost six and drawn one since the fight, it proves it was once again another spoon fed opponent.

His next half decent fighter on his record was against Jermaine White for the vacant ‘WBC Youth World light middleweight title’. Chavez did dispatch of Mr. White easily in a TKO of round 4 but it does not prove anything beating a fighter who has fought no one of any substance and had already lost before Chavez got hold of him.

Ray Sanchez was on paper a good fighter for Chavez. Sanchez had won 20 fights, with only one defeat. But once again Chavez was fighting someone with no substance as Sanchez had once again fought no good fighters, and still managed to be made to retire on his stool. Not good for your 34Th fight.

Finally a breath of fresh air came along when I came across Tobia Giuseppe Loriga’s name. Unbeaten in 25 fights, world title contender, defeated two good undefeated prospects. This is the only good fighter on Chavez Jr’s record and I mean that. Problem is he has since let it down with two failed attempts at the Italian title.

Now I’m not going to go into detail with his next three fighters as there is no need. Matt Vanda was a reasonable fighter well past his prime and losing three from his last six fights. This man still took Chavez Jr. to a split decision. Give him his due Chavez Jr. did go back and win a wide unanimous decision four months later. Luciano Leonel Cuello was undefeated in twenty three fights. Great. But not when three quarters of your opponents have losing records. Finally, Jason LeHoullier. Lost and drew his last two fights. Over half of his opponents with losing records. Enough said.

Now can anybody agree that this deserves a ranked number one spot in the World Boxing Council and number 3 spot in the WBO. If anyone can agree with these two world organizations then I will be more than welcome to read your comments under this. But there is only one argument I can see against this argument, and that is those little slips called dollar bills.