By Jhonny Gonzalez
WBC silver middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. has not fought as a junior middleweight in over a year, but he plans to decrease his weight for the fight with Alfonso Gomez on December 4 at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California. If he wins, a fight with WBA champion Miguel Angel Cotto will be on verge of happening in March 2011.
"I'm aware that it won't be easy to get to that weight, so I began to work since the last fight. I have not gained as much weight as I did at other times when I used to go up by 20 kilos. Now I'm seven kilos above the weight with 10 weeks to go before the fight. I think there should be no problem to get there," Chavez told Sal Rodriguez.
Gomez will be moving up from welterweight for the bout. Chavez doesn't think Gomez will have a problem.
"When he was in the Contender, he fought at this weight, so I do not know what problems he's going to have with the weight for this fight, but I will work hard because this fight is so important because it is the prelude of better things to come in my career," Chavez said.
