By William Mackay: After tonight’s one-sided 12 round unanimous decision win by Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (41-0-1, 30 KO’s) over middleweight contender John Duddy (29-2, 18 KO’s), Top Rank promoter Bob Arum, who promotes both Chavez and Duddy, already had plans in store for the defeated Duddy. Arum says he would like to put Duddy in with another one of his Top Rank fighters former World Boxing Association light middleweight champion Yuri Foreman (28-1, 8 KO’s), who was stopped in the 9th round by Miguel Cotto earlier this month on June 5th at Yankee Stadium.

Arum says he wants to put Foreman and Duddy at Madison Square Garden in New York, and thinks that he’ll be able to sell out the place. Arum might be a little too ambitious about this fight selling out Madison Square Garden. Duddy isn’t a huge name, and Foreman probably isn’t popular enough to sell out Madison Square Garden on his own.

However, Foreman’s surgically operated knee has to heal before then. Foreman tore up his right ACL in his loss to Cotto, and subsequently had successful surgery to repair the problem. Provided that there’s no complications during rebab for the knee, Foreman could be ready to go in a matter of months for a fight against Duddy.

It’s clever that Arum is already thinking of putting these two beaten fighters in with each other to try and get one of them back in the winning ways. As bad as Duddy looked tonight, it would seem almost certain that Foreman would be the winner between him and Duddy, unless Foreman’s knee doesn’t heal properly. Duddy looked pretty poor tonight, and took a lot of punishment against the 24-year-old Chavez. Something seems to be different about Duddy. He used to brawl and show a lot more power and aggression in the past.

Tonight, and in some of his recent fights, the power and aggression has been missing from Duddy for some reason. It could be age or it could be that he’s putting too much concentration on brawling less than he did before. Whatever the case, Duddy isn’t the same fighter he was a couple of years ago and needs to figure what’s gone wrong if he wants to be successful against a hit and run fighter like Foreman.

That’s a tough fight for Duddy coming off a loss like the one he suffered from Chavez tonight. Foreman is hard to fight because of his elusive style. He’s also good pretty good power, as he showed in rounds four through six against Cotto. Foreman would be a very tough opponent for Duddy right now.