Champions chasing Challengers

[ruthless rocco]

Normally challengers chase champions but Sergio is doing his hardest to get the fight with JCC Jnr, giving up the super belt and almost begging for the match.

Any other examples in history that did this?

Interesting. I can't think of any right off hand, but I'm sure it's happened.

You basically need few ingredients for this to happen. You have to have a high-profile challenger or highly-ranked contender who gets more press than the champion. You have to have a sometimes unappreciated champion, who is miffed by the lack of attention that is rather given to the challenger. You have to have a champion that KNOWS he can kick the challenger's ass if only given the chance. AND... you have to have a challenger who's being protected at all costs by some higher up authority. Be it your own famous daddy, or the president of the boxing entity who is also in on the conspiracy to protect the challenger.

With Sergio vs. Baby Chavez it's: check... check... check... a-a-a-a-a-n-d..... CHECK!!

not so sure about your assessment of the two fighters...

martinez 20th fight was against a guy with a record of 6-2-3. he won on Points in a 8 round bout.
chavez jr's 20th fight was against a guy with a record of 21-6-2. he won by 4th round KO.

martinez 30th fight was against an opponent with a record of 6-0-1. martinez won UD/8.
chavez jr's 30th fight was against an opponent with a record of 21-7-3 he won UD/10

martinez 40th fight was against a guy with a 1-7-2 record. he won KO5/8.
chavez junior's 40th opponent was 23-0-0. he won by UD/10

not sure why everyone complains about chavez junior's padded record when its clearly martinez who's consistently faced bunk opposition.

Also: martinez has fought 6 more fights than chavez jr... so if you were to erase the last 6 fights from martinez record; you'd find his most recent fight to have been a Draw against cintron. if you examine his record before that you'd have to agree that he's fought a bunch of nobodies.