The CBZ Newswire

OXNARD, CA – Two-division world champion Sergio Martinez works out in preparation for his upcoming Mexican Independence Day Middleweight championship battle against undefeated WBC Middleweight Champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. Promoted by Top Rank, Zanfer Promotions and DiBella Entertainment, in association with Wynn Las Vegas, At&T and Tecate, Chavez Jr. vs Martinez will take place Saturday, September 15 at Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, live on HBO Pay Per View. Photo by Chris Farina – Top Rank, Copyright 2012

LOS ANGELES, CA, July 10, 2012 — (L-R)  Undefeated WBC Middleweight Champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.  and two-division world champion Sergio Martinez pose during the  Los Angeles press conference to kick off a coast-to-coast media tour announcing their  Mexican Independence Day Middleweight championship battle. Promoted by Top Rank, Zanfer Promotions and DiBella Entertainment, in association with Wynn Las Vegas,At&T and Tecate, Chavez Jr. vs Martinez will take place Saturday, September 15 at Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, live on HBO Pay Per View. — Photo: Chris Farina – Top Rank, copyright 2012

El Paso,Texas — WBC Middleweight Champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (at left) and top middleweight contender Andy Lee of Limerick, Ireland pose during a press conference Tuesday in El Paso,Texas to announce their upcoming WBC World Middleweight Championship to be held Saturday, June 16 at a site to be determined. Promoted by Top Rank, in association with Zanfer Promotions, DiBella Entertainment, At&T and Tecate, this championship card will be televised live on HBO Championship Boxing. (Photo by Chris Farina – Top Rank, copyright 2012).

by Karl Hegman

HOUSTON, November 30, 2011–

Fighter Of The Year:  Marlen Esparza

An easy pick here.  The United States Amateur Women’s Flyweight Champion captured her sixth consecutive national title and represented and won for the USA in international competition. Esparza was the subject of a groundbreaking CNN documentary, Latino In America 2: In Her Corner.

Fight Of The Year:  Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. TKO 5 Peter Manfredo (continue reading…)

Chavez (middle) on the attack. Photo courtesy of Chris Farina, Top Rank (copyright, 2011)

By Karl Hegman

This past Saturday evening at the Reliant Arena here in Houston, World Boxing Council Middleweight title holder Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. stopped used up Peter Manfredo at 1:52 of round five in a fight that more closely resembled a local Golden Glove bout than a world championship fight. The bout was a fairly entertaining brawl between two C level fighters while it lasted, but if Chavez Jr. is a true world champion, I’m a monkey’s uncle.

Young Chavez has a plethora of problems as a fighter. He was getting nailed flush with sucker right hands from an ordinary pug like Manfredo that my grandmother could have gotten out of the way of, due to the fact that he has not learned how to bring his left hand up after jabbing and hooking. The affair was a milling one in the first round as Chavez marched after his man in the odd high step style of his father’s and continually walked face in to rights and lefts from the former “Contender” series star, but a higher work rate won the round for Junior.

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