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Chavez Jr, Duddy Make Weight, Prepared For Battle, Barrera overweight
By Jake Donovan
Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. and John Duddy both made weight for their 12-round middleweight bout on Saturday night. Chavez Jr. (40-0-1, 30KO) weighed in at 160 lb. on the nose, while Duddy (29-1, 18KO) – who was rumored to have struggled to make weight – came in at 159, though appearing perhaps a bit drained.
The fight, an eliminator to determine the next mandatory challenger for lineal middleweight king Sergio Martinez, headlines the Top Rank-distributed “Latin Fury 15” pay-per-view telecast, which airs live from the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas (Saturday, 9PM ET/PT).
It is a must-win situation for both fighters, neither of whom have seen their careers taken very seriously in the media or really anywhere else throughout the industry. Both carry huge fan bases, but are viewed as ticket sellers and nothing more.
To Chavez Jr’s credit, he recognized the direction in which his career was heading and decided to do something about it. The son of the Mexican legend has spent the past month and change training with four-time Trainer of the Year Freddie Roach, and is physically in the best shape of his career by a wide margin.
Saturday’s fight will be his first since serving a six-month suspension for testing positive for a banned diuretic following his lethargic 10-round win over Troy Rowland last November.
Duddy enters the fight having won three straight. But much the rest of his resume, none have come against anyone that suggests the Irishman is to be viewed as anything more than a sideshow attraction.
Sadly, he was once in the running for a middleweight title fight with then-champion Kelly Pavlik, but managed to squander the opportunity by dropping a decision to Pavlik’s stablemate, journeyman Billy Lyell.
It marked the first and – to date – only loss of Duddy’s career, though evidence of his shortcomings has existed for quite some time.
Much like Chavez Jr, Duddy deserves credit for recognizing that the free ride is over, and that anything short of a spectacular showing will most likely result in his forever being dismissed as a never-will-be hype job.
While it can easily be argued that neither fighter has any business being in line for a major title shot, the fact that such a prize exists for the winner only heightens the stakes for what already promises to be an all-action shootout.
A win for Duddy would obviously lead to a middleweight title shot since he’s spent his entire pro career at or around the weight. Multiple options exist for Chavez Jr, who is also in contention for junior middleweight hardware. Promoter Bob Arum has also discussed the possibility of matching him up with newly crowned 154 lb titlist Miguel Cotto.
BARRERA’S LAST STAND?
Marco Antonio Barrera (136 lb) returns to the ring for the first time since his aborted bout with Amir Khan last March. The former three-division champion takes on Adailiton DeJesus in the evening’s co-feature attraction, which is scheduled for ten rounds.
The bout is listed as a lightweight contest, though the contracted weight was 138 lb. Only one of the two honored the agreement, as De Jesus (26-4, 21KO) looked remarkably sculpted, though weighing a career-heaviest 138 lb.
Conversely, Barrera (65-7, 43KO) looked the part of a man who struggled to make weight and also that of a man who long ago watched his prime come and go. The Mexican weighed in at a career fleshist 141 lb, and paid a fine to the De Jesus camp in order to have the contracted weight modified for the sake of proceeding with the contest.
Once upon a time, Barrera suggested he was done with the game after his second loss to fellow modern-day ring legend Manny Pacquiao in October 2007, ending a four-year tour with Golden Boy Promotions. However, he resurfaced under the Don King banner, returning to the ring 13 months later.
Three fights followed, including the controversial contest with Khan in England last March, where an opening round head butt left Barrera with a cut so deep that any other commission in the world would’ve stopped the bout on the spot. Instead, the fight was permitted to last long enough to go to the scorecards, where he lost by a considerable margin.
It was to the surprise of many that Barrera came back this year with the announcement that he would spend the rest of his career with Top Rank. News of the comeback wasn’t the shocking part, but that he would fight FOR Bob Arum after years of appearing in the opposite corner on fight night, including his legendary trilogy with Mexican rival Erik Morales.
The plan is to capture a belt at lightweight, which would make Barrera the only fighter in the history of Mexico to win titles in four weight classes. Proposed matchups with Humberto Soto and Miguel Acosta have been discussed, but first he has to get past what’s in front of him.
De Jesus is no stranger to fighting on the road. The bad news, though, is that it’s where all four of his losses have occurred, as he is only 3-4 when fighting outside of his native Brazil.
Still, he enters this fight on the heels of a four-fight win streak and owns the claim as the first to put Yuriorkis Gamboa on the canvas. He managed to recover from his own knockdown to floor the undefeated Cuban in the fourth round, only to bow out in the sixth round of their October 2007 contest in Hollywood, Florida.
OTHER WEIGH-IN RESULTS
Raul Martinez (26-1, 15 KO) continues the climb back towards the top after having fallen way short against pound-for-pound entrant Nonito Donaire last April. He has since won two straight and appears in a televised preliminary bout, facing Gabriel Elizondo (22-3-1, 10KO) in an all-San Antonio matchup slated for ten rounds.
Both fighters made the super flyweight limit – Martinez weighed 114.5, while Elizondo was slightly heavier at 114.75 lb.
Opening the telecast is a potential featherweight shootout, featuring Salvador Sanchez (19-3-2, 9KO) in the toughest test of his young career as he squares off against Tomas Villa (22-7-4, 14KO) in a scheduled eight-round bout.
Sanchez, nephew to the late former featherweight champion and Hall-of-Fame fighter of the same name, has won nine straight since cleaning house and fielding a new team behind him. He weighed in at 125.25 lb for what appears on paper to be the toughest fight of his career.
Though only 26 years old, it’s possible that Villa has seen better days. Having turned pro at 17, there is already a lot of mileage on the Mexican-born featherweight. Life after his 2008 Fight of the Year entrant with Rogers Mtagwa hasn’t been so grand, winning twice before getting drilled twice en route to a first-round knockout loss to Miguel Garcia earlier this year.
Villa weighed 126.5 lb for the crossroads bout with Sanchez.
By Jake Donovan
Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. and John Duddy both made weight for their 12-round middleweight bout on Saturday night. Chavez Jr. (40-0-1, 30KO) weighed in at 160 lb. on the nose, while Duddy (29-1, 18KO) – who was rumored to have struggled to make weight – came in at 159, though appearing perhaps a bit drained.
The fight, an eliminator to determine the next mandatory challenger for lineal middleweight king Sergio Martinez, headlines the Top Rank-distributed “Latin Fury 15” pay-per-view telecast, which airs live from the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas (Saturday, 9PM ET/PT).
It is a must-win situation for both fighters, neither of whom have seen their careers taken very seriously in the media or really anywhere else throughout the industry. Both carry huge fan bases, but are viewed as ticket sellers and nothing more.
To Chavez Jr’s credit, he recognized the direction in which his career was heading and decided to do something about it. The son of the Mexican legend has spent the past month and change training with four-time Trainer of the Year Freddie Roach, and is physically in the best shape of his career by a wide margin.
Saturday’s fight will be his first since serving a six-month suspension for testing positive for a banned diuretic following his lethargic 10-round win over Troy Rowland last November.
Duddy enters the fight having won three straight. But much the rest of his resume, none have come against anyone that suggests the Irishman is to be viewed as anything more than a sideshow attraction.
Sadly, he was once in the running for a middleweight title fight with then-champion Kelly Pavlik, but managed to squander the opportunity by dropping a decision to Pavlik’s stablemate, journeyman Billy Lyell.
It marked the first and – to date – only loss of Duddy’s career, though evidence of his shortcomings has existed for quite some time.
Much like Chavez Jr, Duddy deserves credit for recognizing that the free ride is over, and that anything short of a spectacular showing will most likely result in his forever being dismissed as a never-will-be hype job.
While it can easily be argued that neither fighter has any business being in line for a major title shot, the fact that such a prize exists for the winner only heightens the stakes for what already promises to be an all-action shootout.
A win for Duddy would obviously lead to a middleweight title shot since he’s spent his entire pro career at or around the weight. Multiple options exist for Chavez Jr, who is also in contention for junior middleweight hardware. Promoter Bob Arum has also discussed the possibility of matching him up with newly crowned 154 lb titlist Miguel Cotto.
BARRERA’S LAST STAND?
Marco Antonio Barrera (136 lb) returns to the ring for the first time since his aborted bout with Amir Khan last March. The former three-division champion takes on Adailiton DeJesus in the evening’s co-feature attraction, which is scheduled for ten rounds.
The bout is listed as a lightweight contest, though the contracted weight was 138 lb. Only one of the two honored the agreement, as De Jesus (26-4, 21KO) looked remarkably sculpted, though weighing a career-heaviest 138 lb.
Conversely, Barrera (65-7, 43KO) looked the part of a man who struggled to make weight and also that of a man who long ago watched his prime come and go. The Mexican weighed in at a career fleshist 141 lb, and paid a fine to the De Jesus camp in order to have the contracted weight modified for the sake of proceeding with the contest.
Once upon a time, Barrera suggested he was done with the game after his second loss to fellow modern-day ring legend Manny Pacquiao in October 2007, ending a four-year tour with Golden Boy Promotions. However, he resurfaced under the Don King banner, returning to the ring 13 months later.
Three fights followed, including the controversial contest with Khan in England last March, where an opening round head butt left Barrera with a cut so deep that any other commission in the world would’ve stopped the bout on the spot. Instead, the fight was permitted to last long enough to go to the scorecards, where he lost by a considerable margin.
It was to the surprise of many that Barrera came back this year with the announcement that he would spend the rest of his career with Top Rank. News of the comeback wasn’t the shocking part, but that he would fight FOR Bob Arum after years of appearing in the opposite corner on fight night, including his legendary trilogy with Mexican rival Erik Morales.
The plan is to capture a belt at lightweight, which would make Barrera the only fighter in the history of Mexico to win titles in four weight classes. Proposed matchups with Humberto Soto and Miguel Acosta have been discussed, but first he has to get past what’s in front of him.
De Jesus is no stranger to fighting on the road. The bad news, though, is that it’s where all four of his losses have occurred, as he is only 3-4 when fighting outside of his native Brazil.
Still, he enters this fight on the heels of a four-fight win streak and owns the claim as the first to put Yuriorkis Gamboa on the canvas. He managed to recover from his own knockdown to floor the undefeated Cuban in the fourth round, only to bow out in the sixth round of their October 2007 contest in Hollywood, Florida.
OTHER WEIGH-IN RESULTS
Raul Martinez (26-1, 15 KO) continues the climb back towards the top after having fallen way short against pound-for-pound entrant Nonito Donaire last April. He has since won two straight and appears in a televised preliminary bout, facing Gabriel Elizondo (22-3-1, 10KO) in an all-San Antonio matchup slated for ten rounds.
Both fighters made the super flyweight limit – Martinez weighed 114.5, while Elizondo was slightly heavier at 114.75 lb.
Opening the telecast is a potential featherweight shootout, featuring Salvador Sanchez (19-3-2, 9KO) in the toughest test of his young career as he squares off against Tomas Villa (22-7-4, 14KO) in a scheduled eight-round bout.
Sanchez, nephew to the late former featherweight champion and Hall-of-Fame fighter of the same name, has won nine straight since cleaning house and fielding a new team behind him. He weighed in at 125.25 lb for what appears on paper to be the toughest fight of his career.
Though only 26 years old, it’s possible that Villa has seen better days. Having turned pro at 17, there is already a lot of mileage on the Mexican-born featherweight. Life after his 2008 Fight of the Year entrant with Rogers Mtagwa hasn’t been so grand, winning twice before getting drilled twice en route to a first-round knockout loss to Miguel Garcia earlier this year.
Villa weighed 126.5 lb for the crossroads bout with Sanchez.
get sopcast and click on this link sop://broker.sopcast.com:3912/95242. lol @ Elizondo literally getting his bell rung at the end of round 6 and got knocked down and when he got back up he didnt know the bell rung and that the round was over. This guy Martinez impressed me a lot, gots great form and good hands.
yeah chavez got rocked in round 4 or 5 somethin like that I thought duddy had a chance but I'm not going to lie I was really impressed with chavez tonight. For one his conditioning is obviously the best it's been, two he was much more calculating with his punches meaning he chose his shots wisely and didn't make too many mistakes, also the punches he threw he made them count he landed some monster shots on duddy.
I think chavez definately can no longer be called a bum he showed a lot of improvements in the ring, lots of heart, toughness, etc. and roach is obviously doing a good job.
If pac-floyd doesn't happen I'd like to see Pac vs Margarto/Chavez vs Cotto doubleheader at dallas stadium.
I think chavez definately can no longer be called a bum he showed a lot of improvements in the ring, lots of heart, toughness, etc. and roach is obviously doing a good job.
If pac-floyd doesn't happen I'd like to see Pac vs Margarto/Chavez vs Cotto doubleheader at dallas stadium.
chavez has some game, he fights well from the inside and his jab from the outside when he uses it is very effective. He looked good in there but let's not get too ahead of ourselves it was John Duddy after all, but nonetheless great win for chavez and he's definately moving in the right direction.
To early for him to take on cotto or margarito or any of those guys but he gets a couple more fights with freddie roach and I wouldn't be surprised if he can call himself an elite fighter.
To early for him to take on cotto or margarito or any of those guys but he gets a couple more fights with freddie roach and I wouldn't be surprised if he can call himself an elite fighter.