Julio César Chávez, Jr. vs. Marco Antonio Rubio

Welcome to the Future
DateFebruary 4, 2012
LocationTexas Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas, United States
Title(s) on the line WBC Middleweight Championship
Mexico Julio César Chávez, Jr. vs. Mexico Marco Antonio Rubio
La Leyenda Continua El Veneno
Tale of the tape
Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico From Torreon, Coahuila de Zaragoza, Mexico
44-0-1 (31 KO) Pre-fight record 53-5-1 (46 KO)
6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) Height 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
159½ Weight 159
WBC Middleweight Champion Recognition No. 1-Ranked Challenger
Result Chávez, Jr. defeats Rubio by UD.

Julio César Chávez, Jr. vs. Marco Antonio Rubio, billed as Welcome to the Future, was a Boxing Middleweight bout for the WBC world title. The bout was held on February 4, 2012, at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas, United States.[1] where 14,000 fans were in attending.[2]

Background

Chávez

Chávez, Jr. held an overall record of 44-0-1, having won twenty straight fights since enduring his career’s lone blemish six years ago. The bout with Rubio was the rising star’s second consecutive clash in Texas, racking up a fifth round TKO against Peter Manfredo, Jr. in Houston last month, and second time he’s visited the home of The Alamo in his previous five fights.[3]

Chávez, Jr. claimed a middleweight belt in June via majority decision against Sebastian Zbik and made his first defense on November 19, a fifth-round TKO of Peter Manfredo Jr.[4]

Rubio

Rubio had gone 10-0 with nine knockouts and has been a far more authoritative, confident-appearing fighter.

Among those 10 victories was an impressive seventh-round stoppage of one of the game’s elite prospects, David Lemieux, on April 8, 2011. Lemieux entered the fight with a 25-0 record and 24 knockouts and was hailed as a potential star.

He has not lost since being stopped in the ninth round by then-middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik in February 2009.

Main card

Preliminary card

Result

Chávez, Jr. retained the WBC middleweight title, earning a unanimous decision over fellow Mexican Rubio. The judges scored the bout 118-110, 116-112 115-113 for Chávez, Jr., which drew a mixed reaction from the 14,120 in attendance at the Alamodome. Neither fighter went down despite taking continuous heavy blows to the head and body throughout the 12-round bout. Chavez Jr. overcame a gutsy performance by Rubio despite having some trouble entering the fight.

Notes

Rubio stated after the fight: "He re-gained a lot of weight. I re-gained my usual weight." and "I feel that he was very well protected. They didn't even do any testing which should have been done". However, Rubio neglected to mention that the local Texas commission also did not to test him, along with the co-feature fighters Donaire and Vazquez Jr. According to the commission, they made the mistake of not booking a testing laboratory for the event in advance.[5] Former world champion Julio César Chávez was at ringside, providing Spanish color commentary for Donaire's bout before watching his son's fight as a spectator. Among those in attendance were former world champions "Sugar" Shane Mosley of Golden Boy Promotions and San Antonio native Jesse James Leija.

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