As previously reported on BoxingScene.com, a potential fight between Ricardo Mayorga and Marco Antonio Rubio could take place on May 12th in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico — according to the former two division champion from Nicaragua. One source is stating that Mayorga will arrive in Florida next week to start training camp for what is going to be a ten round fight at a catch-weight of 165-pounds 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 ...

Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. looked calm and confident as he spoke to the press at Alamodome in San Antonio. The undefeated Chavez promised a convincing victory over fellow Mexican Marco Antonio Rubio, the mandatory challenger for Chavez’s WBC middleweight title read more ...

The first HBO boxing card of 2012 is officially upon us as all participants made weight Friday afternoon for Saturday televised doubleheader live from the Alamodome in San Antonio read more ...

The WBC has rejected Marco Antonio Rubio’s demand to replace Saturday’s referee, Lupe Garcia of Mexico. Rubio (53-5-1, 46KOs) challenges WMC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (44-0-1, 31KOs) at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas read more ...

As middleweight Marco Antonio Rubio (53-5-1, 46Kos) continues to train in the high altitude mountains in Torreon, he admits that WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (44-0-1, 31KOs) has grown as a fighter in the last two years. Rubio, one of the hardest punchers at middleweight, wants to test the chin of Chavez read more ...

According to Top Rank president Todd DuBoef, if Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (44-0, 31KOs) retains his WBC middleweight title on February 4th, when he faces Marco Antonio Rubio in Texas, the next possible opponent is Miguel Cotto (37-2, 30KOs) of Puerto Rico - and that fight would place in the month of July in a city to be determined read more ...

WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (44-0-1, 31KOs) is tired of the verbal attacks by Sergio Martinez. Last week, Martinez branded Chavez as a «coward» for not agreeing to fight him. During last month’s WBC convention in Las Vegas, the sanctioning body named Martinez as the mandatory challenger to Chavez’s title, but then failed to force the fight, which made Martinez vacate the WBC’s Diamond title read more ...