Is this the ceiling for Julio Cesar Chavex Jr?

[milmascaras1]

i believe chavez jr. has been vastly overhyped but is it his fault that his last name is chavez? i can see if he keeps fighting opponents with losing records but what arum is doing is giving him some needed experience before he tackles the big boys at jr. middle or middleweight! i don't see anything wrong with that. and i am the first to admit that i do buy his ppv events because of his last name, he is intriguing and besides, his ppv events always come with really good undercards.

[SEANIE]

Some of his opponents records have had more padding than a DFS sofa.

[carloseap]

I agree with everybody. Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. will never make it big. He is mediocre, untalented and overprotected. Most important of all, he doesn't need to fight in order to make a living. He's just a clown. I would even say his younger brother (Omar) has a better chance to make it than him.

[sanj16]

He will never be more then mediocre. Although, he has nothing to be ashamed of, if he wasn't measured against his father's success, he would have had a pretty good pro career.

If it wasn't for his fathers success don't think he would have had much of a pro career

[Nameless]

Somehow, Arum is behind all that and I explain myself: The kid is outrageously popular in Mexico and Arum makes tons tons of money with him headlining his cards over there. Relatively un-expensive cards to put up, load of money to get in return. Do you think Uncle Bob is in a hurry to blow up one of his good milk cow? Sure not. Especially because he's lining low risk cards. He'll continue the formula till it's not bearable anymore and then will land him against a real pitbull for a last money ride and it'll be bye bye little indians.

[JonnyFolds]

I keep thinking of Joel Julio as soon as someone mentions JCC Jr. They are the same age. Both are boxers with a good punch in case they endout getting out classed. I think Julio would wipe the floor with him.

JCC is lucky he's in one of the weakest division in boxing (154). assuming Martinez and Williams stay up at 160 of course..

[Chino]

On the other side, he's still only 23 years old. How good is Chavez Jr really? Is this his peak? Is he ever going to be a world champion-caliber fighter?

I wouldn't be surprised if that is the same thing people were wondering about Chavez sr. when he was starting out and not facing big names and then accomplished all that has taken him to be an all-time great. Let's see what happens to Jr.

[generalbulldog]

I could be wrong, but if I'm not mistaken Wilfredo Benitez didn't have an amateur career and still became champ at 17. Pacquiao for sure didn't have one and still became Lineal flyweight champ at 19. Mike Tyson only had 10 or 15 amateur bouts and became HW champ at 20.

It's either you have it or you don't. And from looking at JCC jr. he doesn't have it.

[15rounder]

Correct me if I'm wrong but I think Chavez Jr. is fighting John Duddy on the undercard of Pacman/Clottey. Atleast that's a rumor. If this is the case, I think this Chavez kid will be tested. We'll find out if he can take a punch if he steps in the ring with Duddy.