Julio cesar chavez vs. Marlon starling @ welter

I went with Chavez as I feel he was still effective at that weight, while Marlon blew hot and cold. But I acknowledge that Starling could have taken it too

 

Starling UD. Chavez did nothing at WW.

 

Starling would give Chavez a boxing lesson at welterweight.

 

This potential fight was actually talked about in 1989-90. Chavez smartly stayed at 140 for a few more years.

 

Starling would own as well as school Chavez....and I'm a Chavez fan and admirer...

 

He would have been as pumped and indomitable for Chavez as he was for Breland the first time. Moochie would have put on a great, inspired performance.

 

Yeah,Starling was much too strong at 147 for Julio, who was getting manhandled at times by Pea, who was not a strong or truly genuine Welter physically either.

I think he'd back Julio up and have too much finesse and strength on the inside for him.Julio was beatiful to watch in his own right as an in-fighter, but i don't see his mixture of cultured textbook and brute force working here against a bigger stronger man that was a defensive virtuoso inside.

Starling's the kind of fighter that would easily hang with Julio in an infight even P4P, but would be outworked...whereas here his strength is likely to tell on the smaller man and it would be the other way around.Add in chavez by this stage not being as sharp or reflexively capable as he was at lower weights.

Chavez will hang tough and do okay even if he's beaten comfortably in the end.Starling's just a solid hitter and chavez isn't likely to get flustered and leave openings like Breland or Honeyghan did that leads to a KO or total schooling.

 

If he did it would only be because Chavez was 36 when he went up to Welter. Anyone who was getting outboxed by Johnny Bumphus before the head clash, ain't giving an ATG like Chavez a boxing lesson.

 

Starling too American for Chavez.

 

I thought he was 31. An old 31, but 31.

 

foxy

You seem to be quite the contrarian. Here, you pick possibly Starling's worst performance against a fighter who had a syle nothing like Chavez. Starling was best against fighters who moved toward him. That's a style Chavez would likely use. This fight would have much infighting, where Starlings superior strength and defense at 147 lbs would make the difference.

We're not talking prime 135 lb. Chavez here.

 

No offense,but those was one of his twilight zone performances.It wouldn't happen even against a young Chavez.Marlon too much for him.

 

Starling, easily.