By Allan Fox: According to an interview WBC Diamond middleweight champion Sergio Martinez gave to the record.com.mx,
Martinez is interested in moving down to 154 to fight WBC junior
middleweight champion Saul Alvarez if Martinez can’t get WBC
middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. to agree to fight him in
September. Chavez Jr. is Martinez’s first choice, but he has serious
doubts about whether Chavez Jr. wants to fight him.
In the interview at the record.com.mx, Martinez, 37, said he wants
Chavez Jr. to agree to Olympic style drug testing for performance
enhancing drugs in order to fight him. However, it’s unclear whether the
young 26-year-old Chavez Jr. will agree to the testing that Martinez
wants. Martinez says he’s willing to take less money than Chavez Jr. but
he definitely wants the drug testing in place before he fights him.
Chavez Jr. has been coming into his fights heavy at or near 180 lbs
after re-hydrating. It could be tough on Martinez if he has give up 10
to 15 pounds in weight. That should be more of a concern for him than
worrying about PEDs. What Martinez needs is to have some kind of
rehydration limits in place the day of the fight to try and limit how
much Chavez Jr. can balloon up in weight because he’s been coming into
his fights recently as a small cruiserweight in size facing guys in the
160s. That’s a big advantage for Chavez Jr. to have, as he can beat his
opposition on size alone when he’s
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