By Dan Ambrose: If it were left up to him, former WBC middleweight champion Sergio Martinez (47-2-2, 26 KO’s) would face the newly crowned WBC middleweight champ Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (43-0-1, 30 KO’s) next on October 1st. However, Martinez doesn’t see that happening because he feels that Chavez’s promoter Bob Arum of Top Rank won’t let Chavez Jr. face him and likely get destroyed. Martinez wants that fight because he lost his WBC belt outside of the ring when the WBC stripped him for not fighting his mandatory challenger.

In an article at fightnews.com, Martinez said “Arum would never have any of his fighters face me. Arum has had a bad experience with me with [Kelly] Pavlik. I would like to fight Chavez because he has the WBC belt. The one I had before losing it in an office and not in the ring.”

Let’s face it: Arum probably will never let Martinez fight Chavez Jr. unless Martinez starts losing it all of a sudden and starts looking 100% shot. Right now, Martinez looks so much better than Chavez Jr. that it’s not even funny. Chavez Jr. could come into a fight against Martinez weighing 180 lbs and still get destroyed. Martinez is too fast, too powerful and too skilled for Chavez Jr. That would be a great fight for boxing fans to see because it would be the first real fight where Chavez Jr. is facing a real quality fighter instead of a B, C level fighter or a paper champion. But it’s a really an un-winnable fight for Chavez Jr. because Chavez’s whole came is built around getting in close and fighting an inside game. Martinez likes to move around and doesn’t stand still long enough for one dimensional fighters like Chavez Jr. to set up shop.

It would come down to Chavez Jr. getting belted really hard from the outside from time to time and being able to do little more than follow Martinez around like a big puppy dog, soaking up tremendous punishment. It would likely be sickeningly one-sided with Martinez ripping Chavez Jr. to shreds, exposing him and taking away his unbeaten record.

With the Chavez Jr. fight an impossibility, Martinez is looking at fighting either Dimitry Pirog, the WBO middleweight champion, or middleweight contender Marco Antonio Rubio next on October 1st. It’s likely that Rubio is the one that Martinez ends up facing next. For his part, Chavez Jr. will probably wind up facing fellow Top Rank fighter Miguel Cotto in September, unless Cotto faces Antonio Margarito.