Sebastian Zbik Sebastian Zbik (born 17 March 1982) is a German former professional boxer and the former WBC middleweight Champion of the world. He resides in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Professional career Zbik won the interim WBC middleweight title against Ita ...

vs. Julio César Chávez Jr., billed as "La Hora De la Verdad", was a professional boxing match contested on June 4, 2011, for the WBC

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championship. It has been the first time that the son of legendary boxing Champion

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, fought for a world title. The bout was on June 4, 2011, at

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, in

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and was broadcast on

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Background

Lineal and ''The Ring'' middleweight champion Sergio Martínez was stripped by the WBC after HBO declined to broadcast a bout between him and "Interim" champion

, following his

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over

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. Zbik would be upgraded to full champion and would agree to face their top ranked contender Julio César Chávez Jr.

The fight

Zbik was ahead early against Chávez, who was the quicker fighter and landed more punches. However Chávez kept coming forward, countering with hard body shots that seemed to slow the champion down. After 12 rounds had been completed, judge Steve Morrow had 114–114, while Raul Caiz Jr scored it 115–113 and John Keane 116–112 both in favour of Chavez giving him a majority decision victory. HBO's unofficial scorer

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scored the fight 116-112 for Chávez Jr.

Aftermath

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

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, the first ones being

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and

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Main card

* Middleweight Championship

vs. Julio César Chávez Jr. **Chávez defeated Zbik via majority decision (112-116, 114-115, 114-114). *Featherweight bout:

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vs.

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**Garcia defeated Guzmán via knockout at 1:55 in the fourth round.

Preliminary card

Confirmed bouts: *Light Welterweight bout: Oscar Andrade 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:

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vs.

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**Martirosyan defeated Román via technical knockout at 2:58 in the seventh round. *Light Middleweight bout: Dakota Stone vs. Christy Martin **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

Broadcasting

References

External links

Chávez, Jr. vs. Zbik Official Fight Card
from

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