By Adam Baskin: WBC middleweight champion Jermall Charlo has taken to social media today to tell his 496K followers on Instagram that he’ll return to the ring in June, two years after his last fight in 2021.

The 32-year-old Charlo (32-0, 22 KOs), who surprisingly hasn’t been stripped of his WBC 160-lb title by the World Boxing Council, didn’t reveal who his opponent will be this summer, but fans believe he’ll be rescheduling his fight against Maciej Sulecki.

Charlo had been scheduled to fight Sulecki two years ago when he fell off the grid and vanished from the sport. Jermall will be laughed at and criticized to no end if he reschedules the fight with Sulecki, as that would give the fans the impression that Charlo has been frozen in suspended animation and has been rethawed.

Fans won’t have a problem if Charlo takes a tune-up, but obviously, his WBC mandatory Carlos Adames will because his title shot is way overdue. Of course, what can you do if the WBC is on board with allowing Charlo to sit on their 160-lb title and freeze the careers of the contenders like Adames?

“I promise you I will set the summer on fire 🔥 I’m back in June. Stay locked,” said Jermall Charlo on Instagram, letting his followers know he’ll finally return to the ring after two solid years of inactivity.

While it may sound great that Jermall is returning to the ring, the chances of him continuing to have issues with his activity are likely to persist.

This inactivity issue is a clear signal that Charlo doesn’t have the love for the sport that he needs for him to stay active like the younger, hungrier fighter that hasn’t made the millions that he and his brother Jermell have.

When Jermall does come back, it will be a lot more complicated than before because he’s older now and has been out of the sport for too long. If Charlo didn’t love boxing enough before to stay active, you could bet he will hate it even more now.

It’s utterly predictable that after Charlo gets a nice paycheck for his fight in June, he won’t make another appearance for a year or two after the money runs out. After Charlo gets that money from his June fight, who knows when we’ll see him again?

Jermall last fought in June 2021, going life & death with fringe contender Juan Macias Montiel and looking like the shell of the fighter he’d been when he beat the likes of Sergiy Derevyachenko and Julian ‘J-Rock’ Williams.