Benny Ricardo: Chavez Jr Will Offer His Chin To Martinez

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Benny Ricardo: Chavez Jr Will Offer His Chin To Martinez

 

Written by Benny Ricardo

 

In the great sport of boxing the thought “Son of a Champion should also be a Champion” is not always the case. The reason being is that there’s a mother involved. Julio Cesar Chavez Jr started his boxing career with the name and has proceeded to now carve out 46 wins without a loss with 32 coming by way of knockouts. He is now the WBC Middleweight Champion.

 

Sergio “Maravilla” Martinez was born in one of the poorest area of Buenos Aires, Argentina, a place called Avellaneda. Neither his father Hugo nor his mother Susana were boxers but they were fighters in living their lives. Martinez dreamed of being a professional soccer player and then a cyclist. Boxing was his third option, but he stuck to it and traveled far from Argentina, across the pond to Spain to develop his boxing tools and become a World Champion and a top-ten pound per pound fighter in the world.

 

Now the genes of a legendary Hall of Fame fighter meet the genes of a life fighting couple. On the day before the Mexican Independence day of September 16, at the Thomas and Mack Center there is going to be an all time brawl the likes of which you have not seen in a while.

 

Martinez is the most athletic fighter Chavez Jr. has ever faced. The speed of Martinez is going to allow him to hit Chavez and hit him often. The son of the legend inherited his father’s double cranium ability to take shots and keep coming in.

 

I announced Chavez Jr.’s last fight with Andy Lee. Time and time again I saw Lee turn over his punch and hit Chavez flush on the chin and head and it was like hitting Big Ben, neither time nor Chavez stopped for a second. After 6 rounds, Chavez Jr. was trailing Lee on the scorecards of all three judges by 56-58 scores.

 

Martinez has one of the best right hand jabs off his southpaw stance I have ever seen. He leans to the side as he throws it and has unbelievable leverage in doing so. This is the punch that set up the most wicked left hook I have ever witnessed in boxing when he dropped Paul Williams face first on the ring canvas.

 

Just like his father did with the late great puncher Edwin Rosario, Chavez Jr. realized Lee can’t hurt him and like his father paid the price to get inside and overwhelm Lee with his physical power. The Chavez Jr. power is not one punch punching power, instead, it’s a war of attrition surviving method that borders on fearless insanity.

 

I was taught very early in my boxing career that one ofthe most important attribute a fighter can have is his ability to absorb a punch. Muhammad Ali’s greatness was achieved with his hand speed and ability to take shots that allowed to fight in spectacular fashion. Ali’s method were all technically wrong, yet it worked for him because of his God given abilities including the iron chin.

 

Martinez fights with the same athletic style Ali and Roy Jones Jr. used to dominate their divisions. But like Ali and Jones Jr. age sets in and now the hands down style fighter is caught taking a picture. No longer is he a blur of an image, he is now a target that can be hit.

 

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