After so many unfulfilled promises -- from the positive marijuana test to retiring on his stool – Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. gets one more chance to brand himself as something other than the disappointing son of a legend.
Chavez Jr. (48-2-1, 32 knockouts) will fight Mexico’s Marcos Reyes (33-2, 24 KOs) in the main event of a Showtime/CBS doubleheader from El Paso, Texas, that also includes the U.S. debut of Ireland’s unbeaten light-featherweight world champion Carl Frampton (20-0) as the CBS afternoon headliner.
From the time in 2012 when cameras caught Chavez Jr., 29, eating from a cereal bowl in his boxers as then-trainer Freddie Roach waited for him to prepare for the fight of his life against middleweight champion Sergio Martinez, to the moment in April when Chavez retired on his stool after getting knocked down by Andrzej Fonfara in the ninth round at StubHub Center, malaise, not passion, has defined the boxer.