By Miguel Rivera
Former WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. will start camp with his new trainer, Robert Garcia, in 10 to 12 days. Chavez Jr. will wait until Garcia has settled in after returned from the UK, where he traveled to work the corner for IBF featherweight Evgeny Gradovich this Saturday night against mandatory challenger Lee Selby.
Chavez returned to the last month, after a year layoff, and was stopped in nine rounds by top light heavyweight Andrzej Fonfara at the StubHub in Carson, California.
He was trained for that fight by Joe Goossen. Prior to Goossen, Chavez was trained by Hall of Fame coach Freddie Roach.
"We've already communicated with Robert. The intention was there for some time, but we had not been able to finalize anything. But we talked, we reached an agreement and in the coming days I will be training with my team before he returns from England and we will train at his new gym in Riverside, California, in about 10 or 12 days," revealed Chavez Jr. to ESPN Deportes.
Chavez will return on July 18th, with Marco "Dorado" Reyes as the current frontrunner to fill the opponent's slot.
