By Miguel Rivera
Former WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. is hoping to get a fight with the winner of next month's bout between WBC super middleweight champion Badou Jack and mandatory challenger George Groves.
Chavez returns later tonight in against Marcos Reyes at the Don Haskins Center in El Paso, Texas. He wants to become the first Mexican fighter to win a world championship at 168-pounds.
The plan for him is to win two more fights quick fights and then go for whichever fighter walks away next month with the WBC crown.
If Chavez can work in the time, he would like to get that title opportunity before the end of the year. This is already Chavez second contest of 2015. He was stopped in nine rounds in April by Polish light heavyweight Andrzej Fonfara.
"That's what I want to do. I want to go for the [WBC] belt. I want to fight for the world championship this year. I want to do two more fights this year obviously if all goes well on Saturday, but my intention is to go for my second world title, and also to become the first Mexican to win a super middleweight championship," Chavez Jr. said.