Boxing: Chavez claims middleweight title
“I will have to fight a long time and win many more titles to be the equal of my father,” said Chavez Jnr.
LOS ANGELES:
Mexico’s Julio Cesar Chavez junior dethroned Germany’s Sebastian Zbik by majority decision to seize the World Boxing Council middleweight title in a showdown of unbeaten fighters. Chavez improved to 43-0 with one drawn on judges scores of 115-113 and 116-112 while the third judge scored the bout a 114-114 draw. Chavez secured his first world title in the same city where his father, a three-division world champion set to be inducted into the Boxing Hall of Fame next week, captured his first world title back in 1984. “I will have to fight a long time and win many more titles to be the equal of my father,” said Chavez Jnr
Published in The Express Tribune, June 6th, 2011.
Mexico’s Julio Cesar Chavez junior dethroned Germany’s Sebastian Zbik by majority decision to seize the World Boxing Council middleweight title in a showdown of unbeaten fighters. Chavez improved to 43-0 with one drawn on judges scores of 115-113 and 116-112 while the third judge scored the bout a 114-114 draw. Chavez secured his first world title in the same city where his father, a three-division world champion set to be inducted into the Boxing Hall of Fame next week, captured his first world title back in 1984. “I will have to fight a long time and win many more titles to be the equal of my father,” said Chavez Jnr
Published in The Express Tribune, June 6th, 2011.