(Photo Credit: Jayne Kamin-Oncea/SHOWTIME) By Dan Ambrose: After talking up a fight against unbeaten WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (33-0, 30 KOs) in the recent past on his Twitter account and then failing to fight him, former WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (48-2-1, 32 KOs) is once again expressing interest in mixing it up with the hard hitting Kazakhstan star.
Chavez Jr. is saying that he’d like to fight Golovkin if he’s willing to come up all the way to the super middleweight division to fight him at the full weight for the class at 168 pounds. Golovkin is said to be willing to fight former IBF/WBA/WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch at 168, so there’s a possibility he might be interested in facing Chavez Jr. at that weight as well.
Golovkin’s promoter Tom Loeffler might not want to put in the effort for a fight between Golovkin and Chavez Jr. after failing to get a fight against him in the past. They were negotiating a fight in 2014 when Chavez Jr. was with Top Rank, and negotiations fell through. It would have given Chavez Jr. a big payday, but instead he opted not to take the fight.
“Me and Golovkin would make a war, the way we fight for the fans,” Chavez Jr. said to Fighthype.com. “I think a fight with Golovkin at 168. Come to my weight, fight at 168. I think I’ll have a problem at (making) 160. I see in the last Golovkin fight against Willie Monroe, that he was a little tired in the 3rd and 4th rounds.”
A Golovkin-Chavez Jr. fight wouldn’t be a big deal right now given Chavez Jr’s recent 9th round stoppage loss to Andrzej Fonfara. Chavez Jr. quit on his stool in that fight after the 9th round. Chavez Jr. needs some big wins under his belt to make a fight between him and Golovkin a fight is worthwhile.
Chavez Jr. will be fighting Marcos Reyes on July 18th at the Don Haskin Center in El Paso, Texas. This is not a big enough fight for Chavez Jr. to make boxing fans forget about his loss to Fonfara. Chavez Jr. needs to go back and prove that his loss to Fonfara was just a fluke thing of him not being ready for the fight.
Unless Chavez Jr. can do that, a fight between him and Golovkin would be a crippled production. It wouldn’t be any better than Golovkin’s recent fights against guys like Willie Monroe Jr., Daniel Geale and Martin Murray.
“He needs to fight Froch, [Andre] Dirrell; these kind of fighters you know? I think he’s very careful with his opponents you know?” Chavez Jr. said.
Golovkin has been trying to get fights against Froch but with no luck. A fight against Andre Dirrell, a super middleweight who was recently beaten by James DeGale last April, would do very little for Golovkin’s career. He needs bigger names like Miguel Cotto, Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, Andy Lee, David Lemieux, and Floyd Mayweather Jr. for him to take his career to the next level.
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