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Chavez Jnr wins
YOU Know how time flies in this business? Well,
the little kid I used to see perched on Julio Cesar
Chavez's shoulders is now pro. It is Chavez's son of
the same name.
Now he is 17, 5ft Sin and following in the footsteps
of the great three-weight 'world' champion.
Last Friday (September 26) Julio Cesar Chavez
Jnr turned professional in Culiacan as a lightwelterweight
and beat Jonathan Hernandez on
points over four rounds.
Even though he has inherited the family left
hook to the body, Chavez Jnr couldn't deliver the
stoppage he was searching for.
He said his aim is to be greater than his dad, but
rarely do offspring of legendary fighters surpass
the achievements of their fathers.
Still with Chavez, and the man who inspired
Julio Cesar to box, Juan Antonio Lopez, is battling
cancer.
Lopez has been receiving financial help from
the WBC. He twice challenged Wilfredo Gomez for
the super-bantamweight crown in the 1980s and
boxed Brazilian legend Eder Jofre (I pts 10,1976).

JAMES TONEY shouting his mouth off has
made him one of the least popular fighters on
the circuit amongst fellow-professionals.
One who has taken offence is former world
heavyweight king Hasim Rahman, last week
labelled "a bum" by Toney, who tomorrow
(Saturday, October 4) boxes Evander Holyfield
- see pages 12-13.
Toney, whom many experts are picking to
beat Holyfield, verbally attacked both Rahman
and David Tua, who boxes "The Rock" in
Atlantic City on December 13 for the interim
WBA belt.

SHANE MOSLEY, a controversial points winner over
Oscar De La Hoya last month, is still WBA as well as
WBC light-middleweight champion.
But that could change in the coming weeks. Mosley
paid only $30,000 in sanction fees to the WBA instead of
$117,000, which would have been the customary three
per cent of his purse.
But Mosley's team are arguing his purse was only
$1 m and that the remaining $1.9m had gone to another
corporation.
The WBA, fearing other fighters will carve up their
purses in a similar way to avoid paying full sanction fees,
are looking into the matter.
It's no wonder boxers like Marco Antonio Barrera have
dispensed with boxing for alphabet titles. Think of the
hard-earned money the Mexican has saved.
Mosley, who argues he is now at a level where he
doesn't need championship belts to make money,
said: "We don't feel it's fair to have to pay these high
sanctioning fees".
Sugar Shane's next fight is likely to be in March or
April. He will fight twice next year.
His first bout will probably be a relatively easy one,
but Shane said he is targeting world welterweight
champ Ricardo Mayorga for his next mega fight.
Mayorga must first defeat IBF champ Cory Spinks in
Atlantic City on December 13, but Mosley said: "Right
now the right business move is to fight either Mayorga
or Fernando Vargas. I think Vargas doesn't want the
fight, so I'm leaning towards Mayorga.
"And I'd prefer to fight him toe-to-toe in the centre of
the ring. It would be explosive. The more heat you bring
to me, the more you get back.
"That's why Oscar [De La Hoya] and those guys stay
away from me."
For that reason Mosley has ruled out a third fight with
Vernon Forrest. "He's an ugly fight for me," said Mosley.
"Vernon is a nobody now. Nobody cares about him.
Now I'm after the guy that beat Vernon.
"The only reason I'd fight Forrest is for myself, but
that will be later on and when I decide."
Other options include a rematch with De La Hoya or
boxing world middleweight champion Bernard Hopkins
at 11 st.
Vargas, incidentally, is set to box next on December
12, presumably against Tony Marshall, with unbeaten
welterweight puncher Kermit Cintron on the same
show.
Vargas-Marshall was originally made for tonight
(October 3) until Fernando pulled out with a bad back.