Chavez Jr. wants Jacobs next, then Canelo-Golovkin winner

Chavez Jr. wants Jacobs next, then Canelo-Golovkin winner

Chavez Jr. wants Jacobs next, then Canelo-Golovkin winner

Chavez Jr. wants Jacobs next, then Canelo-Golovkin winner

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Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. is targeting Daniel Jacobs in his next fight, and if successful, then the winner of the September 16th match between Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and Gennady “GGG” Golovkin. Chavez (50-3-1, 32 KOs) lost to Canelo by a 12 round unanimous decision last Saturday night in a one-sided affair from start to finish.

Chavez Jr. says that he thinks Danny Jacobs beat Golovkin in their fight last March. Chavez Jr. believes he can put himself in position to fight the Canelo-Golovkin winner if he can get past Jacobs. Arranging a fight against Jacobs should be fairly easy for Chavez Jr., as they’re both managed by Al Haymon. Presumably, Jacobs would need to move up to the full weight for the 168 pound division in order for the Chavez Jr. fight to take place, because there’s little chance that the Mexican star will be able to make the 160 pound limit for the middleweight division.

It shouldn’t be a big deal for Jacobs to move up to super middleweight, because he’s had over 20 fights during his career in the 168lb division. Jacobs is essentially a super middleweight that boils down to 160 to fighter lighter guys than himself. You can argue that might be the main reason why Jacobs chose not to weigh-in for the International Boxing Federation’s fight day weigh-in for his fight against Golovkin on March 18 this year. Golovkin made the weight, but Jacobs skipped the weigh-in the morning of the fight and opted to rehydrate.

”I think it was weight and inactivity, we needed to work more speed, I felt good condition but very tied up and without strength,” Chavez Jr. said to ESPN. ”I felt like I took the 164-pound fight for the shot, but I want to show you that at 168 pounds I can be different.”

Chavez Jr. did not look good in fighting at 168 last December against fringe super middleweight contender Dominik Britsch. Chavez Jr. won the fight by a 10 round unanimous decision by the scores 99-91, 99-91 and 99-91. Chavez Jr. wasn’t facing a good fighter though. He was fighting a guy that was given a low ranking by the World Boxing Organization in their top 15. None of the other sanctioning bodies in the 168 lb. division had Britisch ranked in their top 15.

Even if Chavez Jr. were to get a miracle win over Jacobs, it’s very doubtful that Canelo’s promoters at Golden Boy would dare making a second fight between him and Chavez Jr. The boxing public would likely stay away in droves at a second Canelo-Chavez Jr. fight. You can only sell mismatch once to the boxing public without potentially hurting your fighter’s band name.

Chavez Jr. doesn’t seem to understand how bad he looked against Canelo. He was terrible to the point where I wouldn’t be surprised that even Canelo lost fans because he was involved in this poor match. Golden Boy should have known better than to put this fight together. Just because you can put a mismatch together an sell it to the gullible casual boxing fans, it doesn’t mean that you should. You can argue that it’s bad business to put together a fight that is clearly going to be a mismatch. I don’t think Chavez Jr. will ever in this lifetime get a second fight against Canelo.

“I think Jacobs beat Gennady Golovkin, so it would be a good fight, to beat him and win another fight could find the winner of Canelo and Golovkin, “ said Chavez Jr. ”I know that under other conditions things could be better.”

Chavez Jr. is blaming his bad performance against Canelo on him having to make the 164.5 pound catchweight instead of acknowledging that he lost to a fighter that was far better than him at this point in his career. Chavez Jr. only came in 4 pounds under the 168 lb. upper weight limit by weighing in at 164. It’s hard to swallow the excuses that Chavez Jr. is making for his loss. Even if Chavez Jr. was weight drained for the fight, and clearly was, coming in at 4 more pounds at 168 wouldn’t have made any difference in the outcome of the fight.

Chavez Jr. was out of his class BIG TIME against Canelo. The two fighters were worlds apart in the talent level. Canelo was always going to be a better fighter than Chavez Jr. If there was a way of putting Canelo into a time machine to travel back to 2011 to fight Chavez Jr. when he was in the prime of his career, he would STILL lose to Canelo and lose badly. Canelo is far more talented fighter than Chavez Jr. could ever hope to be.