Chavez Jr., Vanda set for boxing rematch in Vegas

**purtyboy** · 09-23-2008 04:07 PM

Originally Posted by Chino

Considering the criticism Amir Khan gets I'm baffled by the support for Chavez Jr who clearly has barely 10% of the talent of his father.
As soon as he steps up to even top domestic level he's getting creamed. He's from the same cloth as Tye Fields and Roman Greenberg and is building his record on complete nobodies.

As it has been said before...Chavez Jr. has no amateur experience, no olympic experience, etc. He put those gloves for the first time and straight to the pros. An amateur facing an amateur is quite different than an amateur (which Chavez Jr. is technically) facing a pro who already had in average more than 100 fights as an amateur plus olympic exposure or something. Of course we want to see Chavez Jr. fight for a belt already. If his name was not J.C. Chavez Jr., we wouldn't really care.
Same thing happened with J.C. Chavez. Straight to the pros and now a hall of famer after all his well deserved accomplishments.

Im pretty sure SR fought amateur. JR is closing on 40 fights i think it's enough experience. I would understand the first 20 but after that.... I mean even the great mayweather did not get as much pro fights as young JR has....

Oh yeah one last thing when Jr put the gloves he did not go straight pro... I recall him fighting paez jr when they were about 12 years old :P

**Chino** · 09-23-2008 04:46 PM

JR is closing on 40 fights i think it's enough experience. I would understand the first 20 but after that.... I mean even the great mayweather did not get as much pro fights as young JR has....

Mayweather had his amateur career with about 100 fights. Won the national golden gloves three times, olympics exposure, etc. Chavez Jr. put those gloves on and straight to the pros, besides that exhibtion children match against Paez Jr. when they were kids but that was it.

**purtyboy** · 09-24-2008 03:03 AM

Originally Posted by Chino

JR is closing on 40 fights i think it's enough experience. I would understand the first 20 but after that.... I mean even the great mayweather did not get as much pro fights as young JR has....

Mayweather had his amateur career with about 100 fights. Won the national golden gloves three times, olympics exposure, etc. Chavez Jr. put those gloves on and straight to the pros, besides that exhibtion children match against Paez Jr. when they were kids but that was it.

One quick question... when do you think Jr will be ready to step up?

**Chino** · 09-24-2008 04:32 PM

I wish he was ready on his next fight but I still see areas where he could improve. As for punching power, no worries but maybe his defense needs to be worked on. Let's see how he does in the rematch, let's see if he worked on the defense that looked rusty on his last fight.
If you think he will get destroyed if he faces any big name in his prime then wouldn't it take a couple more fights? Keep in mind the whole thing about him having no amateur, golden glove, olympic, etc. experience. He's an amateur who's fighting pros pretty much. Guys who double/triple in experience compared to him.