By Miguel Rivera
Former WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. is very prepared for his upcoming return, this coming Saturday night in El Paso, Texas. He goes against fellow Mexican Marco Antonio 'Dorado' Reyes.
This will be the first fight for Chavez with new trainer Robert Garcia. And Chavez reveals that he put in over 100 rounds of sparring, which was a product of work that Garcia demanded from the fighter. The match takes place at the super middleweight limit of 168-pounds. In his last fight, Chavez made the mistake of jumping up two divisions to light heavyweight and was stopped in nine rounds by Andrzej Fonfara.
"I closed camp on Friday with six rounds of sparring to complete just over 100 rounds, which is something I have not done for a long time," Chavez Jr. told ESPN Deportes. "We know that this is a fight that could mark a new beginning, but it is also dangerous for me and my career, so we got the best work in many years."
"I think that since the fight against 'Maravilla' Martinez, I have not boxed so much. You know, for my last few fights I did very little boxing [in camp]. But today I trained very well."