Chavez Jr. Vows To End All Talk of Canelo-Golovkin on May 6

By Miguel Rivera

Former WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (50-2-1, 32 KOs) is confident Saul "Canelo" Alvarez (48-1-1, 34 KOs) will never make it to a potential fall encounter with middleweight king Gennady Golovkin (37-0, 33 KOs).

Last Saturday at New York's Madison Square Garden, Golovkin won a close twelve round unanimous decision over Daniel Jacobs to retain the IBO, IBF, WBC, WBA belts.

Following the fight, Golovkin's handlers resumed their negotiations for a potential HBO Pay-Per-View fight with Canelo on a date in September.

Chavez and Canelo will clash on Cinco De Mayo weekend, May 6th, from the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.

According to Chavez, he received a surprise visit from drug testing officials, who administered a random test on him, but he found it to be a bit suspect as if Canelo's team were using underhanded tactics in order to disrupt his camp.

"I think Canelo is afraid. They barely gave me a drug test. It was one of those random ones that fall on you on any day and it was just urine and not blood. Both are done regularly [based on tests that I've done]. For me it's strange, because Canelo is the one who has to climb up in weight and would need muscle," Chavez Jr. told Carlos Zulbaram.

Chavez Jr. aims to end all of the talk regarding a Canelo vs. Golovkin encounter. He is being worked to the limit by Hall of Fame trainer Nacho Beristain.

"I am working hard and quiet [and paying no attention to the Canelo-Golovkin talk]. We are going to win the fight. I feel that I am better than him," said Chavez Jr. from the Otomí Ceremonial Center in Mexico. "The clearest proof of Don Nacho's quality was found when (Juan Manuel) Marquez knocked out Manny Pacquiao, and right now Canelo is not even half of what Pacquiao was at that moment."

"I will not tell you that my life depends on this fight, but my career as a boxer does, and therefore I'm making the sacrifice of being in the Otomí where there are no luxuries, internet and even telephone... nothing but pure training, but all of this will be valuable on May 6."