As Mexico looks for the next generation of boxing super stars, its best active fighter Juan Manuel Marquez (51-5-1, 37 KOs) believes the future is now for rising Aztec figures Julio Cesar Chavez Junior and Saul Alvarez.
Speaking from his international pulpit on ESPN Deportes Golpe a Golpe, Marquez expressed the need for Mexico?s next generation of potential stars to step up their competition – now.
?He [Chavez Junior] has the ability to be a world champion,? announced Marquez. ?But, it is time they put him in with a name fighter and a fighter who will show us what he is made of.?
One of the main criticisms directed at the twenty-four year old Chavez (41-0-1, 30 KOs) is the poor quality of his opposition and the need for his promotional company, Top Rank, to match him with a legitimate top ten fighter. Marquez?s comments come on the heels of an announcement that Chavez will fight Alfonso Gomez (22-4-2, 11) on December 4 at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California. As an opponent, Gomez will do little to hush Chavez?s critics, as he is an average word-class fighter at best and will be moving up to middleweight from welterweight for the fight.
