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.

Chavez is scheduled to challenge WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto on December 4th. This would mean that Chavez could get back to back title fights, even if he’s blown out by Cotto. It’s hard to see why the WBC has decided to make Chavez Jr. as the mandatory challenger for Martinez, because Chavez Jr. has beaten only one top tier fighter during his seven year career and that was fringe middleweight contender John Duddy.

For a fighter to get a shot at a champion like Martinez, you would think he should have some more notable wins over top 10 opponents rather than just Duddy to show. Incredibly, the WBC has Chavez Jr. ranked above Paul Williams and Fernando Guerrero. There are probably not too many boxing fans that think Chavez Jr. could beat either of those guys. I think Chavez would be massacred by both of them.

Chavez’s father is the famous former lightweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez. Having a famous father obviously doesn’t hurt Chavez Jr. any.

In Chavez Jr’s last fight, he defeated Duddy by a one-sided 12 round decision in June. It was a good win, but Chavez was staggered by the light hitting Duddy a couple of times in the fight and that’s not a good sign. Also, this was Duddy, a fighter that had already been beaten soundly in 2009 by Billy Lyell.

Beating Duddy didn’t prove anything for Chavez other than the fact that he could beat a guy that was already exposed by Lyell and nearly beaten by Walid Smichet, a B level fighter.

It’s going to be interesting to see if Bob Arum, Chavez’s promoter, allows him to fight Sergio Martinez. Chavez Jr. would stand basically no chance against Martinez and would lose in a terrible route. I can see Arum sidestepping this fight and continuing to match Chavez against either B level fighters or fighters from his own Top Rank stable.

He doesn’t have a lot of guys to put Chavez in with in the Top Rank stable. He’ll have to start matching him up against B level fighters again once Chavez is destroyed by Cotto in December, because if Arum keeps putting him in with his good Top Rank fighters like Cotto, Manny Pacquiao, Kelly Pavlik and Vanes Martirosyan, Chavez Jr. will likely lose over and over again and boxing fans won’t be interested in seeing him fight.

Arum will have little choice but to put Chavez back in with the B fighters just so that he can start winning again. I don’t see the Martinez happening, because he’s not a Top Rank fighter and he’s just too good for Chavez. It would be a slaughter even worse than Cotto-Chavez.