Chavez Jr -“We haven’t seen the best of him”

Former WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. arrived last night at the San Juan de Los Lagos in Jalisco, the location of his expected return to the scheduled ring on August 10, facing the Colombian Evert Bravo over ten rounds at the super middleweight limit. Once he arrived, he and his team were received by Mayor Jesus Medina Briseño and other prominent officials.

Chavez in his return to the ring after a two-year absence will be carried on Azteca 7 and Canal Space, through Zanfer Promotions in Mexico.

Chavez, at age thirty-three (50-3-1, 32 KOs), feels that his new focus on boxing will lead him back to a championship.

“I feel good because I’ve always learned from every fight and I’m at a point when I know with more certainty what I want from my career,” said Chavez Jr to the media. “I’m not playing around anymore as I know I did sometimes, especially after the fight with Sergio Martinez when I stopped thinking 100 percent about boxing. That’s why I know it’s time to resume my career.

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Chavez feels that he hasn’t given his all in the ring and his upcoming bout with Bravo will show his renewed determination back into the sport.

“I know that I haven’t given my best. I believe, and I’m convinced that I can give more and that we have still yet to see the best of Julio Cesar Chavez Jr,” Chavez Jr. said to the press.” I’m not a rookie. I’m 33 years old, but I’m not finished either, and I know I have four or five more years left to prove what I know, what I am and what I have, because now I’m going to focus totally on boxing and win a second world championship.

He’s embracing the opportunity for this comeback fight taking place in the backyard of Canelo Alvarez, who he faced and lost to previous two years ago.

“This is the first time I’ve fought in Jalisco, and I’m happy to do it. I’ve gone a long time without a fight,” Chavez Jr. quipped.” The last one was against Canelo, and now, by coincidences of life, I am in this state (Canelo’s backyard) for my comeback fight. I’ve prepared myself very well. I have a lot of experience. I know that there are no easy fights and that they are won in the gym, not in the ring, so I prepared as if I was going to face the best.”