By Steve Kim

Trainer Joe Goossen got only one crack at training former WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., and the end result saw him quit on his stool on the night of April 18th at the StubHub Center in Carson, California. The sour ending produced a down pouring of beer from the rafters.

Goossen, who was forced to train Chavez Jr. at a ski resort in Lake Tahoe and not his preferred setting of the Ten Goose Gym in Van Nuys, believes in looking back that facing tough light heavyweight contender Andrzej Fonfara was a mistake.

"Was Fonfara too big of a guy, too tough of a guy for his first fight back after a 15 month layoff? The answer is in hindsight, yeah [he was]. It was not the fight that you would want for him," admitted Goossen, who was quickly replaced by Robert Garcia in the corner.

Chavez faced Fonfara - a legitimate light heavyweight - at a catch-weight of 172 pounds and was out-muscled and out-fought for much of the fight.

"I don't think there's any question that Fonfara was just too big of a guy that had been active, had the champ of the world (Adonis Stevenson) down and he probably trained as hard as he's ever trained in his life. It was a real big opportunity with the time for Julio, fighting such a big guy and yeah, in hindsight you look at it and go, 'you could've picked an easier guy,' - that's for sure," Goossen said.

This weekend in El Paso, Texas, Chavez Jr. faces Marcos Reyes, who's more or less a middleweight at 168 pounds.

Steve Kim is the news editor for BoxingScene.com.