Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. Next Fight: Former WBC Middleweight Champ Wants to Reunite with Freddie Roach
Former WBC middleweight boxing champion Julio Cesar Chavez, Jr. is looking to reunite with trainer Freddie Roach in preparation for his planned comeback next year.
In 2014, Julio Cesar Chavez, Jr. dropped Freddie Roach as his trainer in favor of Joe Goossen after he left Top Rank Promotions and signed with Al Haymon as his manager. However, the Mexican boxer wants to come back to Roach because he thinks the latter is the perfect person to train him for his next fight, according to Latin Post.
Under Goossen's guidance, Chavez fought against Andrzej Fonfara this April, but he lost during the ninth round. The boxing champ then dropped Goossen and hired Robert Garcia, who helped him defeat Marcos Reyes in July, the report details.
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During his fight with Reyes, Chavez sustained a hand injury that required surgery. But he is planning to once again enter the boxing game in 2016 and he wants to hire the veteran trainer to help him gear up for his next fight, the report adds.
Meanwhile, Roach said he has been waiting for Chavez to reach out to him and is willing to train him once again. In an interview with Boxing Scene, the Hall of Fame trainer praised Chavez for being a "great student" and recalled how the boxer approached him during one of Manny Pacquiao's workout sessions and asked Roach to be his trainer.
However, Roach said Chavez's journey upward was short-lived because of his lack of focus. He said the boxer did not train well for his September 2012 bout with Sergio Martinez, in which he took a staggering loss.
"The Sergio Martinez fight, he could have won that fight easily I thought, because he was too big and too strong for him," Roach told Boxing Scene. "But he didn't show up. He only showed up for five days to train."
As of now, Julio Cesar Chavez, Jr. holds a 49-2-1 record with 32 knockouts. The former WBC middleweight champion will watch the Miguel Cotto versus Saul Alvarez bout this Saturday in Las Vegas before meeting with Freddie Roach to talk about their possible reunion.
