Boxing: Chavez claims middleweight title

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 6^th, 2011.