Julio Jr. who has quit in the ring, missed weight, trained for fights in his living room rather than go to the gym, and failed drug tests by using drugs and refusing to take them ( a refused test is considered an automatic positive) managed to do several of these all during one signed fight and lost via TKO when he refused to continue after round five of his fight with Daniel Jacobs.
Chavez, who refused a drug test and was forced to receive a favorable court injunction to even participate, followed that up by paying Jacobs one million dollars for missing weight by five pounds and after all of that?
Chavez fought pretty well for five rounds.
I gave Chavez the first and fifth rounds and even though I gave Daniel Jacobs the fourth, it was a very tight round.
Chavez worked the body well in the fifth and as I watched the fifth round end, it was Jacobs that I was wondering about being potentially bothered.
That part was a surprise.
What wasn't a surprise was Julio Jr. deciding that he couldn't continue and ending the fight in the corner.
Depending on who was asked after the fight, Junior was having problems with his nose, his hand, and a cut around his eye and decided to concede.
The Phoenix crowd, who were the latest to be sunk by the Chavez hustle, weren't any happier than I was and began to throw things at the ring and hit several ringside persons, notably DAZN's Brian Kenny, while he was on the air. and Chavez as he ran fleeing up the aisle.
Daniel Jacobs will move on and I guess he'll receive a title shot against Callum Smith or Billy Joe Saunders in 2020.
As for Julio Jr. I've seen more than enough from him to say that anyone that tries to use him again should quickly change their mind- as I wrote yesterday, he's just not worth the effort.
The co-feature stole the show as Julio Cesar Martinez wore down Crisofer Rosales and stopped Rosales in the ninth round to win the vacant WBC flyweight title that Martinez almost won a few months back, but after knocking down then-champion Charlie Edwards Martinez hit him while Edwards was on the canvas and the fight was declared a no-contest.
This one featured many exchanges in the early rounds, but as the fight moved forward, the harder punching Martinez began to break the smoother boxing Rosales and the final few rounds were dominated by Martinez against the game but beaten Rosales.
Martinez looks to be a star in the making with an exciting style and he's one to watch in the 112-115 pound divisions.
The other challenge bout saw the ring return of former WBO junior welterweight champion Maurice Hooker as a welterweight and Hooker finished off Uriel Perez in one round.
Perez took several shots to the body and appeared to be injured after Hooker's shot dropped him to the floor.
A pained looking Perez rose but notified the referee that he couldn't continue further.
Hooker claims that he wishes to return to the junior welterweight division, but considering his problems making the weight in the past, I would think that weight is going to be very difficult to make for the former champion.
In the boxing challenge, Ramon Malpica outscored me six to five, the difference being the early ending in the Jacobs-Chavez Jr. pairing.
I lead the overall standings 307-271.
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