Boxing News 2015: Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. Eyes Title Fight Against Badou Jack-George Groves Bout Winner
Former World Boxing Council middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. eyes a major honor right after his unanimous decision win against Marcos Reyes on Saturday in El Paso, Texas.
The "Son of Legend" aims to have a title fight against the winner of the Badou Jack vs. George Groves bout in August, BoxingScene reported. Jack is the current World Boxing Council super middleweight champion and his place is where Chavez wants to be.
"That's what I want to do. I want to go for the [WBC] belt. I want to fight for the world championship this year. I want to do two more fights this year obviously if all goes well on Saturday, but my intention is to go for my second world title, and also to become the first Mexican to win a super middleweight championship," said Chavez Jr.
The outlet noted that Chavez may be able to set up a fight for the emerging victor of the WBC bout before the year ends if he will be able to stick with his plan. Chavez's schedule reportedly includes two more fights prior to the big event.
With how he handled the fight last time, it is clear he needed to put in more effort against his future opponents.
First, he was not able to make his weight for the 170-pound limit. He registered at 170.8 pounds during the weigh-in, which for some boxing experts, may hint a lack of discipline or even foresight on their camp, according to ESPN.
Veteran trainer Robert Garcia explained to ESPN Deportes that the reason for this mistake is that their hotel room weighing scale was off or needs calibrating as it showed the fighter registering within the set weight prior to the event.
"[The entire situation] was more of a miscalculation with our scale in the room. It told us he weighed 169.8 pounds. That was wrong, because [at the weigh-in] he weighed almost a pound more," Garcia said, as quoted in another article of Boxing Scene.
Many boxing enthusiasts do not buy this excuse as he is already a veteran trainer and they should have worked on the situation sooner, especially since they already got their way of increasing the earlier agreed upon 168 pound limit to 170.
Second, Chavez's performance did not impress most boxing analysts as it only showed that his massive body was clearly his advantage, stated Cliff Rold on BoxingScene. He even looked way bulkier during the fight compared to his weigh-in appearance.
Chavez also failed to astonish his foe that night who felt he should have been the proclaimed winner.
"I feel I won the fight. I showed him how I box, I made the weight at 168 and he didn't make weight. He's like a light heavyweight fighting a middleweight...I was against all odds --the referee, the weight, everything. I think I won the fight. It's OK --I did my best," said Reyes to Showtime's Jim Gray.
With these comments, Chavez Jr. must train well before going against super middleweight boxers who are already comfortable fighting with their massive body in these divisions. His triumph against Reyes is a start to get his momentum back after a 9th round TKO loss from Andrzej Fonfara, but he still needs to prove more to hopefully be declared as the WBC super middleweight champion in the future.
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