By Chris Williams: Next month HBO will be airing the Julio Cesar Chavez Jr-Sergio Martinez face off with Max Kellerman on August 25th at 12:45 a.m. It will also be shown on Aug 30th, 31st, Sep 3rd, 5th, 7th, 9th, 10th, 12th, 14th and 15th of September. As you can tell, HBO is going to be working hard to try and attract interest in the Chavez Jr. vs. Martinez pay per view fight.
Hopefully, Kellerman, the moderator of the face off, doesn’t ask his usual sappy questions because sometimes it seems like he’s trying to get sad emotional reaction out of the participants. No one wants to see the fighters get teary-eyed. That ruins the whole thing. What Kellerman should be doing is getting these guys riled up with some trash talking. Make it like Jerry Springer where there’s security close buy just in case the fighters start going at it.
If I was the HBO head honcho I’d some meetings with Kellerman to get him to start asking some good questions for a change instead of the sappy questions he usually asks. If Kellerman can’t get these guys ready attack each other than he should be replaced with someone that can do the job right and instead of putting boxing fans to sleep with the sentimental garbage about how this and that person got their feelings hurt.
Chavez Jr. is going to have problems in this fight because he can’t jab, doesn’t have any hand speed and fights mainly on the inside. Martinez is all wrong for him. Martinez uses constant movement and an in and out attack. It’s going to be like stealing candy from a baby huey on September 15th. Chavez Jr’s trainer Freddie Roach hasn’t taught him how to fight on the outside and he still seems to be copying his famous father’s style of fighting.
The only reason I think Chavez Jr. has been finding success is because he’s out-weighing everyone he fights by 15 to 20 pounds because he rehydrates from 160 all the way up to 180 after he weighs in the day before the fight. I still don’t know how Chavez Jr. can take that much weight off and put back on without being weakened in the process like many fighters are.
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