Julio César Chávez, Jr.

Julio César Chávez, Jr.

Julio César Chávez Carrasco , is an undefeated Mexican boxer and the current WBC Middleweight Champion. His younger brother Omar Chávez is also an undefeated prospect who fights at Welterweight....

 vs. Sebastian Zbik

Sebastian Zbik

Sebastian Zbik , is a German professional boxer and the former WBC Middleweight Champion of the world. Sebastian resides in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.-Interim WBC Championship:...

was a Middleweight

Middleweight

Middleweight is a division, or weight class, in boxing. Early boxing history is less than exact, but the middleweight designation seems to have begun in the 1840s. In the bare-knuckle era, the first middleweight championship fight was between Tom Chandler and Dooney Harris in 1897...

 championship fight for the WBC

World Boxing Council

The World Boxing Council was initially established by 11 countries: the United States, Argentina, United Kingdom, France, Mexico, Philippines, Panama, Chile, Peru, Venezuela and Brazil plus Puerto Rico, met in Mexico City on February 14, 1963, upon invitation of the then President of Mexico, Adolfo...

 Middleweight

Middleweight

Middleweight is a division, or weight class, in boxing. Early boxing history is less than exact, but the middleweight designation seems to have begun in the 1840s. In the bare-knuckle era, the first middleweight championship fight was between Tom Chandler and Dooney Harris in 1897...

 Championship. It has been the first time that the son of legendary boxing Champion Julio César Chávez

Julio César Chávez

Julio César Chávez is a retired Mexican professional boxer.He is a six-time world champion in three weight divisions, and for several years he was considered the best pound-for-pound boxer in the world...

, fought for a world title, Chávez, Jr. went on to become the new WBC

World Boxing Council

The World Boxing Council was initially established by 11 countries: the United States, Argentina, United Kingdom, France, Mexico, Philippines, Panama, Chile, Peru, Venezuela and Brazil plus Puerto Rico, met in Mexico City on February 14, 1963, upon invitation of the then President of Mexico, Adolfo...

 Middleweight

Middleweight

Middleweight is a division, or weight class, in boxing. Early boxing history is less than exact, but the middleweight designation seems to have begun in the 1840s. In the bare-knuckle era, the first middleweight championship fight was between Tom Chandler and Dooney Harris in 1897...

 Champion. The bout was on June 4th, 2011, at Staples Center

Staples Center

Staples Center is a multi-purpose sports arena in Downtown Los Angeles. Adjacent to the L.A. Live development, it is located next to the Los Angeles Convention Center complex along Figueroa Street. Opening on October 17, 1999, it is one of the major sporting facilities in the Greater Los Angeles...

, in Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...

 and was broadcast on HBO.

Build up

This was the fourth time in boxing's history that a father and son combination would both become World Champions. This was also the second combo for the country of Mexico

Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

, the first ones being Guty Espadas

Guty Espadas

Guty Espadas was a Mexican professional boxer who won the World Boxing Council Flyweight Championship. He is also the Father of former World Champion Guty Espadas Jr.-WBC Flyweight Championship:...

 and Guty Espadas, Jr..

Main card

• Middleweight Championship   Sebastian Zbik
  Sebastian Zbik
  Sebastian Zbik , is a German professional boxer and the former WBC Middleweight Champion of the world. Sebastian resides in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.-Interim WBC Championship:...
  
   vs.   Julio César Chávez, Jr.
  Julio César Chávez, Jr.
  Julio César Chávez Carrasco , is an undefeated Mexican boxer and the current WBC Middleweight Champion. His younger brother Omar Chávez is also an undefeated prospect who fights at Welterweight....
  
  
  • Chávez, Jr. defeated Zbik via majority decision (112-116, 114-115, 114-114).
• Featherweight bout:   Miguel Angel Garcia
  Miguel Angel Garcia
  Miguel Ángel García Cortez is an undefeated Mexican-American boxer in the Featherweight division. García's the current USBA, WBO NABO, and NABF Featherweight champion. Miguel Ángel is trained by his father Eduardo Garcia and former World Champion, his brother Roberto García.-Early life:García is...
  
   vs.   Rafaël Guzmán
  Rafaël Guzmán
  Rafaël Guzmán Hernández was a Mexican professional boxer in the Lightweight division. Guzmán is the former WBC FECARBOX Super Featherweight, WBC Mundo Hispano, and WBC FECARBOX Lightweight Champion.-Early life:Rafaël started his amateur boxing career at age ten...
  
  
  • Garcia defeated Guzmán via knockout at 1:55 in the fourth round.

Preliminary card

• Light Welterweight bout:   Oscar Andrade
  Oscar Andrade
  Óscar Andrade is an undefeated Mexican American professional boxer in the Light Welterweight division.-Professional career:...
  
   vs.   Kai Zama
  • Andrade defeated Zama via technical knockout at 2:15 in the first round.
• Lightweight bout:   Jessie Román‎ vs.   James Grant
  • Román defeated Grant via knockout at 1:00 in the second round.
• Lightweight bout:   Alejandro Luna vs.  Pablo Cesar Garcia
  • Luna defeated Garcia via unanimous decision (40-36, 40-36, 40-36).
• Light Middleweight bout:   Saúl Román
  Saúl Román
  Saúl Román Martínez Castañeda is a Mexican professional boxer in the Light Middleweight division and is the former Mexican National Light Middleweight Champion.-Pro career:...
  
   vs.   Vanes Martirosyan
  Vanes Martirosyan
  Vanes "The Nightmare" Martirosyan is an American boxer of Armenian descent.- Amateur :His family moved to Glendale, CA, when he was four years old, he started boxing when he was seven after his father, also an amateur boxer found out there was a gym nearby.Martirosyan was taken out of junior high...
  
  
  • Martirosyan defeated Román via knockout at 2:58 in the seventh round.
• Light Middleweight bout:   Christy Martin vs.   Dakota Stone
  • Stone defeated Martin via technical knockout at 1:09 in the sixth round.

Reported fight earnings

These are the payouts to some of the fighters. These are the California State Athletic Commission purses as per the California bout agreements. They don't include sponsor money or other common forms of revenue paid through other streams. In California, if a fighter is more than two pounds overweight he is automatically penalized 20 percent of his purse and the weigh-in is over.

• Sebastian Zbik $292,500 vs. Julio César Chávez, Jr. $600,000
• Miguel Angel Garcia $110,000 vs. Rafaël Guzmán$20,000
• Vanes Martirosyan $50,000 vs. Saúl Román$12,500
• Christy Martin $12,500 vs. Dakota Stone$3,500

External links

• Chávez, Jr. vs. Zbik Official Fight Card from BoxRec
• HBO Sports