By Miguel Rivera
According to former WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., he's returned with a real hunger for victory.
The Mexican, who is 30 years old, confessed that in the last two years he's been thinking about hanging up his gloves. On December 10th, Chavez Jr. will return to the ring after nearly 17 months of inactivity to face the German contender Dominik Britsch at the Arena Monterrey in Mexico.
Chavez's career has been plagued by injuries lately, and there was a long legal dispute when he left Top Rank and signed on with manager/adviser Al Haymon.
Chavez has been out of the ring since last July, when he won a ten round decision over Marcos Reyes. He injured his hand in the contest and that forced him to sit on the bench for the rest of the year. Then, he was going to fight WBC super middleweight champion Badou Jack in April, and suffered a heel injury in camp and withdrew.
"There was a time when I did think about retiring, especially when there was that problem between Bob Arum and Haymon. When that happened I thought about leaving, and then I didn't know if I was going to fight or not fight and I didn't know what would happen. It was disappointing, but I always kept training and I never lost hope - and now I'm back. "
"I am aware that this is the second time in my career [that I'm coming back from a long layoff] and now I want to do things without making any mistakes."
Chavez (49-2-1, 32 KO's) is only thinking about victory in his upcoming return and the prospect of getting big fights.
The fight against Dominik will be at 169 pounds, but Chavez says in 2017 he could even drop to 164 pounds for a fight with Saul "Canelo" Alvarez or challenge Gennady Golovkin at 168-pounds.
"I want to fight the best and of course I would like a fight with both of them," he said.
