Rubio vs Chavez Jr Predictions

Hand picked? Chavez's management tried to avoid the match-up and skirt around Rubio's mandatory status by shopping all sorts of other options. (a voluntary defense against Manfredo, FFS? :roll It was Julio letting his machismo get the best of him and spouting of publicly that he wanted to answer the challenge when Marco called him out that unraveled all of the best laid plans of Top Rank/wildcard.

 

Chavez is a big middle like Pavlik was and i think its a similar fight

Chavez is a much different animal than Lemiuex and will not fall into the same sort of trap that Lemieux did

I get the idea Chavez can wear down Rubio and stop him before the 11th

 

Chavez UD, Rubio will bring a fight no doubt but I see Chavez stepping up his game but just not having enough for a stoppage

 

He's big, but not nearly as dangerous as Pavlik was IMO.

 

give him time he is still young and has time on his side

 

:blood Chavez is nothing like prime Pavlik, IMO. He might possess a better left hook but in literally every other category prime Kelly was better.

 

I remember that. I bet some good money on DeMarco because of the cut Linares got from pacquiao :thumbsup

 

Yea, but we don't even know what type of game will Jr bring..., he is not "proved" yet..., anyway I think he's going to win...

 

I think Chavez wins this. Chavez doesn't have all of his dad's chin, but he has enough for him not to get the stanky legs like Lemuix did from one punch.
And even Lemuix was winnng pretty convincingly until he gassed out, but it shows Rubio's good punch resistance.

We'll have to wait and see

 

It is worth noting that until that night there weren't really even whisperings that Lemieux might be chinny, even from people who'd been tracking him a while. :think

Everyone had him tabbed as one of those "no defense, impossible to miss" types like Duddy - but not someone who'd be annihilated the first time he met someone who could even remotely crack.

Veneno cracks.

 

The fights this weekend though :rofl

I see what you're tryna say but it doesn't make sense in the context

 

Well, it worries me that the judges names haven't been announced yet but if they are competent, I favor Rubio. Too seasoned and too hungry.

 

good point. I'm still kinda shocked that he went down like that. I remember gettin ready to go to the club at my friend's houe and the fight was on and I told everybody to watch this young future star and then :yikes

 

I'm hoping Rubio takes it but I'm predicting Chavez Jr by UD.

 

Who is to say you led them astray?

If Rubio scores this upset, and thereby sets up the next logical step of a huge multi-million dollar payday on PPV unifying with Maravilla (which I think he'd lose, probably by knockout, but it might be a classic while it lasts) then yeah - you'd have been correctly predicting a future star...just one who took a little longer than usual to rise. And 31 can definitely be called young, tyvm. Age is just a #.