Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. Officially Off Saturday's Top Rank PPV
by Scott Christ on Nov 30, 2010 2:05 PM EST
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First Alfonso Gomez, now Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.
The main event for Saturday's Top Rank pay-per-view broadcast has been fully eliminated, as BoxingScene.com reports that Chavez has officially withdrawn from the bout, where he was to face Pawel Wolak, who replaced the injured Gomez recently. Their sources say that Chavez, who was going to fight Wolak with a 165-pound weight limit, woke up Tuesday with a 100-degree fever, and that was enough for him to cancel the fight.
Wolak will face Jose Pinzon (18-1-1, 12 KO) in an eight-round bout on the undercard. The new default main event is probably best described as a double main event now. The bantamweight fight between Nonito Donaire (24-1, 16 KO) and Wladimir Sidorenko (22-2-2, 7 KO) is still on the docket, as is the lightweight title fight between Humberto Soto (53-7-2, 32 KO) and Urbano Antillon (28-1, 20 KO). Also on the card, featherweight prospect Mikey Garcia (23-0, 19 KO) faces Olivier Lontchi (18-1-2, 8 KO), who hasn't fought since a June 2009 loss to Juan Manuel Lopez, which was also a makeshift main event for a Top Rank PPV show, when the Kelly Pavlik-Sergio Mora fight fell apart.
It's still a decent card with one good, notable fight (Soto-Antillon), Donaire back in action against the best fighter he's faced since Vic Darchinyan, and the chance to see Garcia, who is very promising, in action. It's not like the Chavez main event, either against Gomez or Wolak, was some great fight. Still, either fight was definitely more intriguing on paper than Wolak-Pinzon, and the chances of us providing round-by-round coverage have gone down pretty significantly with the loss of this fight. We will definitely be doing the Saul Alvarez-Lovemore N'dou fight on HBO Latino at 12:30am (past midnight) on Saturday night, but the Top Rank show will be a wait-and-see thing. No promises.
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that's what I'm expecting, too
Bad Left Hook
"To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day..."
by Scott Christ on Nov 30, 2010 3:11 PM EST up reply actions
Sc , I heard that Margarito looks to Return in March, do you think Arum will probably match him against Yuri Foreman?
If he can. I’d doubt Margarito’s really ready to go by March. The surgery he just had is no joke.
Bad Left Hook
"To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day..."
by Scott Christ on Nov 30, 2010 3:32 PM EST up reply actions
I was only interested in
Donaire v Sidorenko and Soto v Antillon anyway.
Two fights worth watching there.
I know Sergio Martinez has been in with some tough opponents above his natural weight class over the last year or so but talk of him facing Andy Lee really is a joke.
Rumours of a Cotto fight were bad enough,imo,but a fight vs Lee has surely just got wipeout written all over it.
Still,he probably deserves a gimme and there aren’t exactly loads of options for him.
Lee won’t demand much money and HBO will buy it. That’s really all it comes down to. I suspect Manny Steward might be cashing in his Andy Lee chips if he really thinks this is a fight that they should take. Lee has barely fought a warm body since losing to Vera.
Bad Left Hook
"To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day..."
by Scott Christ on Nov 30, 2010 3:54 PM EST up reply actions
That’s what i was wondering.
He got his heart broken by an average fighter like Vera and then i have heard nothing since.I assumed he must be on the quiet comeback trail but if you say he’s done very little since,he’s just gonna get blown away in comedic fashion.
This is almost like a Gary Lockett level challenger,imo.
Jr vs Cotto - no go in March
Bob Arum want’s Jr. to fight 1 or 2 more fight at 154 before fighting Cotto. Arum want’s Cotto vs Margarito Rematch in June and Jr to fight Foreman on the Undercard.
I Say if Jr. want’s Cotto and Cotto want’s Jr. the Let them Fight in March.
100 degree fever?
I’m no doctor but isn’t 98.6 considered normal? I had a 102 temp last week and still went to work….
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