Chavez Jr. Ring Return Now Pushed Back To September

By Miguel Rivera

After a family misunderstanding in recent days, former WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez said he would be back in September, and that's only if he's 100% in condition to fight - because if not it's better for him to stay out of the ring.

Chavez Jr. (49-2-1, 32KOs) was training for a potential on August 27th against J'Leon Love (22-1, 12 KO's), at a venue in California. The weight was reportedly going to be a catch-weight of 170-pounds.

In late May, Chavez reunited with Freddie Roach for the first time since their split in 2012, and they began training hard at the Wild Card Gym in Hollywood, California.

But in the last week Chavez Jr. stopped going to the gym. Chavez Jr. said his hand was bothering him, but earlier this week there a big internal family issue when the boxer claimed that his ex-wife took off with his daughter.

"It was a misunderstanding. I didn't know anything regarding my daughter for a few days and obviously I was worried, but it was a misunderstanding thank God, and there was no kidnapping. I already talked to Freddie and his people and said that next Monday I will be in the gym," Chavez Jr. told BoxingScene.com.

"I know that family and personal problems somehow affect me in boxing and I want to have everything right in my private life in order to focus one hundred percent on boxing. I have not fought because for some reason I have not been a hundred percent, and the truth is that if I do not feel a hundred percent I'm not going to enter the ring."

"Right now I'm 50 or 60 percent. I had been training hard, I hurt the heel, then a hand, and I really hope that in month and a half I can get into the ring, perhaps in Texas or Los Angeles."

Chavez Jr. (49-2-1, 32 KOs) has been away from the ring since July 2015, when he badly injured his hand during a ten round decision victory over Marcos 'Dorado' Reyes in El Paso, Texas. The injury required surgery and prevented him from fighting for the remainder of last year.

Chavez was slated to return earlier this year in a world title fight against WBC super middleweight king Badou Jack. Chavez withdrew from the planned April date after suffering an injury to his left heel in training camp. He started off the year with trainer Robert Garcia, who helped prepare him for the fight with Reyes, but then Chavez made the switch to Roach once the Jack fight was officially off.