Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. has sustained a cut on his eyelid in sparring that will apparently result in a postponement of his September 7 fight with Bryan Vera at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
The fight is to be Chavez’s first since last September, when he lost a lopsided decision to world champion Sergio Martinez, whom he knocked down and nearly stopped in the dramatic 12th round at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas.
There will be speculation that Chavez, notoriously heavy between fights, was having problems getting down to the 168-pound limit for the fight, although his camp said that he was on track to make weight.
In other boxing news
Andre Berto will undergo surgery to repair a torn tendon in his right shoulder on Wednesday in Los Angeles. Berto suffered the painful and debilitating injury in the second round of his July 27th bout with Jesus Soto Karass at the At&T Center in San Antonio, and was forced to endure the majority of the fight with one arm. Wednesday’s surgery will repair the main supporting tendon of the rotator cuff in Berto’s right shoulder.
typo ChavezJr fight is 9/28/2013 not 2014
The good news for fans is that the fight will be held at the Stub Hub Center on September 28 2014.
This sucks!!! Does that mean that they wont replace him? Is the whole show off??
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