Sulaiman: Chavez Jr. needs to battle Sergio Martinez or the WBC will need to accompany the standards and strip him

By William Mackay: WBA president Jose Sulaiman laid down the law for WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., saying that he’s got to defend his title against former WBC middleweight champion Sergio Martinez next or else the World Boxing Council will have to follow the rules and presumably strip Chavez Jr. of his paper title.

Sulaiman told ropeadope.radio.com “The winner of the February 4th fight [between Chavez Jr. and Marco Antonio Rubio] must meet Martinez if Martinez wins on March 17th, so if the champion does not comply with that or Martinez doesn’t, then we [the WBC] has to follow the rules…you have to lose the title. I hope that this does not happen.”
Well, Chavez Jr’s promoter Bob Arum is likely going to put the WBC in the position where they’re going to have to decide whether to enforce their rules or ignore them and let Arum continue to match with other fighters and not Martinez. Arum has already said that he plans on matching Chavez Jr. up with either Andy Lee or Antonio Margarito next.

Arum isn’t yet comparing notes regarding matching Chavez Jr. in several battle, as he states he doesn’t have any plan of matching Chavez Jr. in opposition to Martinez a few battle from now. This doubtlessly puts Sulaiman in the position to where he’ll ought to compel the issue if Arum decides on to feel free to put Chavez Jr. in with Lee or Margarito for a title safeguard. It could be a scenario where Arum is doing his particular thing by matching Chavez Jr. in opposition to the chap that he needs to instead of putting Chavez Jr. in a risky battle in opposition to Martinez and probably enduring a knockout misfortune.

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