In the latest boxing news, Top Rank promoter Bob Arum has decided not to pit newly crowned WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (43-0-1, 30 KO’s) against WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto in September. It seems that Arum has taken a good look at how poor Chavez’s defense was in his close 12 round majority decision win over Sebastian Zbik last weekend and is instead going to have Chavez Jr. go in a different direction. Chavez Jr. also won’t be facing former WBC middleweight champion Sergio Martinez next, even though Martinez is campaigning hard to try and get that fight. Martinez would be much more dangerous for Chavez Jr. at this point and he’s simply not ready for the kind of firepower that Martinez brings to the table. Read more: http://www.boxingnews24.com/2011/06...ext-rather-than-cotto-or-martinez/#more-69257
