Chavez Sr. needs to let Julio Jr. sink or swim without advice

By Boxing News - 10/07/2012 - Comments

Image: Chavez Sr. needs to let Julio Jr. sink or swim without adviceBy Dan Ambrose: If you had the chance to see the Julio Cesar Chavez Jr-Sergio Martinez 24/7 episodes on HBO as well as the Chavez Jr. vs. Martinez fight itself on September 15th last month], you’ll have no doubt observed that Julio Cesar Chavez Sr. spent a lot of time trying to help his son Chavez Jr. out by giving him expert advice on the things that he had spotted in Martinez’s game that he felt that Chavez Jr. could exploit.

In hindsight the things that Chavez Sr. said were dead on correct, such as backing Martinez up with combinations and then getting out. But Chavez Jr. often looked bored and disinterested in the advice that was given to him by his dad. It looked as if Chavez Jr. didn’t really welcome his father telling him things and that he seemed to want to do it his own way. Chavez Jr. appeared to follow none of his father’s advice and you have to wonder whether that was on purpose or because he just was incapable of doing it. I’d like to think that it was because he just didn’t want to do, because the things that Chavez Jr. was telling him to do was perfectly within Chavez Jr’s capability.

If Chavez Jr. did choose to ignore his father’s advice why would be that be? Is it a case of a son not wanting to be told want to do and feeling like he hadn’t received enough credit on his own? Some people refuse to take instructions. You can tell them they’re heading for the rocks and yet they won’t turn the steering wheel around just so they can’t be seen taking advice. You have to wonder whether Chavez Jr. is one of those type of people.

Chavez Sr. should back off completely and let Chavez Jr. be trained by his trainer Freddie Roach and forget about trying to give his son any expert pointers. It doesn’t matter that Chavez Sr. has way more experience than Roach in terms of his own pro career. Chavez Sr. needs to let his son try and work his career out with Roach. If it doesn’t work out so be it, but I think it’s not helping Chavez Jr. being given advice from his dad at this point. Chavez Sr. needs to let Roach try and work his magic on Chavez Jr. If he can’t follow Roach’s instructions or commit to training in an actual gym instead of his living room then that’s on him.



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