Julio Cesar Chavez and Hector "Macho" Camacho assured six weeks worth of hype by dusting off underdogs Saturday night as a prelude to a long-awaited fight between the two next month.
Chavez, 81-0, made the eighth defense of his World Boxing Council super lightweight title by stopping Frankie Mitchell at 56 seconds of the fourth round at the Las Vegas Hilton.Camacho opened the main card by stopping Eddie Van Kirk at 1:03 of the fourth round of a scheduled 10-round welterweight fight.
In another apparent mismatch, Thomas Tate pushed defending WBC middleweight champion Julian Jackson of St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, the distance before Jackson won a unanimous, 12-round decision.