By Dan Ambrose: World Boxing Council president Jose Sulaiman is stating that the WBC doesn’t allow immediate rematches between their fighters unless there’s a huge demand from the boxing public. Sulaiman doesn’t want former WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. to fight Sergio Martinez in early 2012 without the two fighters first facing someone else in between.

Sulaiman said this about a Chavez Jr-Martinez rematch as quoted by Fightnews.com “The WBC is not in favor of immediate rematches, unless there is overwhelming public demand due to some unusual circumstances in the first fight. The fight was one-sided…There was no unusual circumstances to necessitate an immediate rematch.”

Sulaiman might be doing Chavez Jr. a huge favor by keeping Chavez Jr. from fighting Martinez in an immediate rematch. Chavez Jr. will likely take another beating if he fights Martinez again and it might not be a good idea for the young Chavez Jr. to be thrown back in there with the more experienced Martinez.

Bob Arum of Top Rank is probably going to push to get the immediate rematch for his fighter Chavez Jr., because Arum has already talked about wanting to put Chavez Jr. and Martinez at the Cowboys Stadium in Texas in the first part of next year after Chavez Jr. finishes serving his likely suspension handed out by the Nevada State Athletic Commission.

There is a strong public demand for a Chavez Jr. vs. Martinez fight, because a lot of boxing fans only focused on the last minute of their fight on September 15th when Chavez Jr. was able to hurt Martinez and knock him down. These same fans don’t seem to remember how Martinez got back up and was able to finish the fight by landing shots that Chavez Jr. was taking to the head.

The fans also likely don’t remember how one-sided the Chavez Jr-Martinez fight was for the first 11 rounds. It’s hard to watch the fight without thinking of how it might be a really bad idea for Chavez Jr. to fight Martinez any time soon. Chavez Jr. needs a lot of work before he fights Martinez again and it’ll be too soon if they fight in the early part of 2013.