Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. vs Marco Antonio Rubio: Your Prediction

[paulf]

Who takes it? Chavez has improved, but the flat-footed Rubio will be his toughest challenge.

Poll coming..

[paulf]

Rubio's last fight. Pretty rough.

[chiguy91]

chavez, although improving, hasn't convinced me that he's capable of beating someone like rubio right now. maybe in a year or two but right now i have to favor rubio's experience and power to get the better of chavez, or even wear him down to a late stoppage. if rubio can outbox him though i wouldn't suggest going to the cards cause they'll deff give the decision to chavez. i hope this fight gets made since arum isn't looking at martinez.

[any craic lad?]

Rubio for me still is a pretty good fighter but the luster has been taken off a Jr fight when Lemieux lost last weekend.Alot of people hate Jr because off some off the easy decisions he has gotten but he is actually alright id favour Jr to win

[TOBYLEE1]

Jr looked more improved in his last fight till the 3rd round. Then he started to get hit alot. Don't know if he can be diciplined for 12 rounds with a puncher.

Rubio is slow and fights at a pace. Jr will be the naturally bigger fighter at fight night.

Rubio's chin is very good if he can outlast Jr he can stop it late. If it goes 12 no matter what Jr wins

By far the biggest puncher the Jr would be facing

[vacon04]

I've got Rubio, who is limited but is a very hard puncher and has a good chin. Rubio is still a tall strong fighter and the weight difference between him and Jr on fight night is not going to be more than 5 pounds.

Chavez Jr has improved but his main problem is still the same, he lacks a good defense and receives a lot of punches. Also he tends to get tired in the last rounds of the fight and that could be a problem against a powerful puncher like Rubio.
Jr has received many punches from his past opponents but since most of them were bums or guys without any punching power at all, he's been able to past through that. However Rubio has a very high KO% and is in fact the biggest challenge for him by far just because of his punching power.

Oh and if the fight goes to the decision it's going to be in favor of Chavez Jr so I think that Rubio KOs Jr in 10