Badou Jack Would Prepare For The Chavez Who Beat Lee

By Ryan Burton

BoxingScene.com recently caught up with WBC super middleweight champion Badou Jack (20-1-1).  This site recently reported that WBC President Mauricio Suliaman and Julio Cesar Chavez Sr. were both on board with a potential Jack-Chavez Jr. showdown.  Chavez Jr. is currently rehabbing an injured hand.

Jack said that he is very interested in facing the former WBC middleweight champion and said that he would would train for the version of Chavez Jr. who stopped current WBO middleweight champion Andy Lee in 2012.

"I believe the WBC approved it. Chavez isn't ranked yet but you know - he is the cash cow," said Jack who dismissed Chavez's loss earlier this year to Andrzej Fonfara that took place at a catchweight of 172 pounds. "That wasn't his weight. He has a little problem with discipline or something like that.  If I fight him I will think of him as the one that beat Andy Lee.  The tough Chavez Jr."

Jack fought twice this year, capturing his title with an unanimous decision victory over Andre Dirrell and then successfully defended his title against George Groves in September on the Floyd Mayweather-Andre Berto pay-per-view undercard.

"It was a good year.  I just try to stay humble and get better and better," Jack told BoxingScene.com.

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