Sources close to the information have informed us that former middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. has signed with influential adviser Al Haymon. Chavez Jr. becomes the newest big-name addition to Haymon's rapidly growing stable of fighters, which already includes Floyd Mayweather, Adonis Stevenson, Danny Garcia, Adrien Broner, Amir Khan, Marcos Maidana, Lucas Matthysse, Keith Thurman, Devon Alexander, Peter Quillin, Leo Santa Cruz, Erislandy Lara, Andre Berto, and Deontay Wilder, just to name a few.
Chavez Jr. hasn't fought since winning a 12-round unanimous decision over Bryan Vera back in March of this year. Although he was presented with fights against middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin and super middleweight champion Carl Froch, Chavez Jr. elected to pass on those offers because they came with contract extensions from his promotional company, Top Rank. In September, Chavez Jr. proclaimed that he was a promotional free agent. Promoter Bob Arum denied that claim, however, and a lawsuit was said to have been filed. It's unclear at this point if that lawsuit is still standing, but according to one source, Chavez Jr. finalized his paperwork with Haymon in the early hours of the morning. We're told that a potential showdown with unified WBA & IBF super middleweight champion Carl Froch is still in the works and is being targeted for February of 2015.
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