Also in action on today’s big card in Tokyo, Japan, was “Golden Boy” Jorge Linares, the former WBA super-featherweight champion. Facing the once-beaten Venezuelan was veteran former super-feather and lightweight champ Jesus Chavez of Mexico. Unfortunately for the paying fans, the fight was no real contest, with the younger, fresher and much faster man beating the 37-year-old up on his way to a 4th-round corner retirement victory. Linares is now 30-1(19) and he has won three in a row since that disastrous night against another Mexican, in Juan Carlos Salgado in October of last year; who took Linares’ WBA 130-pound belt via a shocking 1st-round stoppage win. Chavez is now 44-8(30). “El Matador” has now lost four fights on the bounce, two inside the distance. Golden Boy Promotions had huge plans for Linares before the Salgado loss, and he has regrouped well enough since that heavy, but quick defeat. Having won his last two bouts up at lightweight, including a useful points win over Rocky Juarez in his previous fight before today, Linares could well become a world champion all over again. Gifted, powerful and fast, the 25-year-old will get himself a big fight at 135-pounds as long as he continues winning. Read more: http://www.eastsideboxing.com/news.php?p=25559&more=1
