WBC Middleweight Champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. works out in Las Vegas for his upcoming WBC World Middleweight Championship against top middleweight contender Andy Lee of Limerick,Ireland, Saturday,June 16 at the Sun Bowl Stadium in El Paso,Texas. 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 read more ...

The first middleweight world champion born in Mexico, Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (45-0, 31KOs), said the Irishman Andy Lee (28-1, 20KOs), who the Mexican champion will face on June 16 in El Paso, Texas — will be the strongest opponent that he’s had in his entire career. If Chavez wins, the 26-year-old boxer is eager to face Argentine star Sergio Martinez (49-2-2, 28KOs) on September 15 in Las Vegas read more ...

BoxingScene.com reached out to boxing adviser/promoter Sampson Lewkowicz, and spoke directly to middleweight king Sergio Martinez (49-2-2, 28KOs), who confirmed that he officially signed, at 7PM PST, an agreement to face the winner of Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. vs. Andy Lee - on the tentative date of September 15th. Lewkowicz, along with his wife, held a meeting with Martinez at the Bel Air Hotel in Beverly Hills, California read more ...

Top Rank President Todd duBoef announced today that Andy Lee will be the challenger for WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. on June 16 at the Sun Bowl in El Paso, Texas read more ...

A potential fight between current WBC Middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr and Sergio Martinez has not been able to be arranged even though Martinez is next in line to challenge for the title. The WBC is allowing Chavez to make an optional defense in June and will need to negotiate and finalize a deal to fight Martinez for a fight in September read more ...

When Chavez conquered the WBC middleweight title, discussions started where even our president, Don Jose Sulaiman, was offended, but the WBC has stuck to what was ordered during its last convention in Las Vegas, the same as both boxers. The negotiations period for the parties began on March 19th and will concluded on April 9th, to then have a public auction on April 16th read more ...

MARTIN MURRAY has been forced to withdraw from his WBC world middleweight title challenge against Julio Cesar Chavez Jr because he cannot obtain a visa in time that would allow him to enter the United States. The British, Commonwealth and WBA inter-continental champion was lined up to challenge the Mexican in El Paso, Texas on Saturday the 16th of June read more ...

WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. has answered the complaints of Marco Antonio Rubio, who blasted the Mexican champion for not undergoing a post-fight drug exam on Saturday night in San Antonio, Texas. Chavez won a twelve round unanimous decision over Rubio read more ...

Handlers for middleweight contender Marco Antonio Rubio plan to protest Saturday’s title fight with Julio Cesar Chavez Jr in San Antonio. The basis for the protest is no anti-doping testing having taken place, despite language existing both in the fighters’ contracts and in the WBC championship rules read more ...

WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (45-0-1, 31 KOs) successfully defended his title with a twelve round unanimous decision over mandatory challenger Marco Antonio Rubio (53-6-1, 47 KOs) on Saturday night before 14,120 at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas. Rubio put forth a valiant effort, however the effort wasn’t enough to capture the title as the judges at ringside scored the bout 118-110, 116-112, and 115-113 read more ...