Comments Thread For: Chavez Jr. Shows Guts in Worthy Decision Over Rubio

[Junior M Weight]

Something very wrong when a 181 pound fighter calls out guys around 154.

You know the 154 lbers don't actually fight at 154 on fight night right?

He's a big middleweight, but Martinez is doing the same looking for little guys like Floyd and Pac to fight him.

[kali08]

I told everyone Chavez Jr would beat Rubio and he did. I'm accepting apologies. I would also like to say Chavez Jr would beat Martinez aswell.

[jrosales13]

Rubio is accusing Chavez Jr of taking PED's. He believes Chavez took something.

[edgarg]

He weighed in at 159.5lbs. I think they said he had to make a second trip back to the scales and strip. Came in fight night at 181lbs. Damn.... wth? And he seems adimant about staying at 160lbs. I don't get why? He's killing himself every fight. When Merchant asked him what he was going to do to change it so he doesn't have to dehydrate, he just basically said "don't do it again". But.... he will, I'm sure of it. He needs to move up for sure.

Unfortunately the outlet I watched has no after=fight interviews. I would imagine that what he meant about "not doing it again" was about his DUI, the curse of all athletes. After the DUI at nearly 5.a.m. he likely was coming from a late,late party, and being boozed up like that, a bettor would have placed his bets on Rubio. I wonder if that changed the direction of some of the smart money. Still he fought a really tough guy, and did well. He is getting better, but takes too much punishment.

[mushahadeen]

People always try to discredit JCC JR.

When he fights a young guy-- "Oh he's too young..."

When he fights Rubio-- "Oh he's too old..."

When he beats Sergio Martinez-- "Oh he's just an overrated bum soccer player hypejob..."

Bottom line is 45 have tried, 45 have failed.

[edgarg]

But your boy JCC Jr. is jumping two divisions up. I really believe now he's ducking Martinez.

He's not ducking Martinez. His career is still being brought along judiciously, and when his team believe that he can beat Martinez, he will fight him. Compared to most, he's still a bit "green", and as he's taking on stronger challenges with each successive fight. you can see the improvement. That means something is being done properly. I agree with his way of progress.

[mushahadeen]

Rubio is accusing Chavez Jr of taking PED's. He believes Chavez took something.

The only thing JCC JR took was Rubio's soul.

[mushahadeen]

Everyone has a plan until they get in the ring w/ JCC JR. Then they find out it's different than it looks on tape.

[Lorily]

Unfortunately the outlet I watched has no after=fight interviews. I would imagine that what he meant about "not doing it again" was about his DUI, the curse of all athletes. After the DUI at nearly 5.a.m. he likely was coming from a late,late party, and being boozed up like that, a bettor would have placed his bets on Rubio. I wonder if that changed the direction of some of the smart money. Still he fought a really tough guy, and did well. He is getting better, but takes too much punishment.

No, Larry was asking Chavez if was planning on going up in weight and he was imphatic that he wasn't going to move up. Then Larry asked him if he's having to go through so much pain to drop the weight, what will he do different in order to not struggle with the weight again next time. That's were the "don't do it again" thing came in. I assume he just meant "don't let my weight get up so high that I have to lose 15 pounds, 2 weeks prior to the fight and then have to dehydrade and hydrate etc.etc.

[UTEP]

The only thing JCC JR took was Rubio's soul.

Soak it up, you called it from the beginning