By Miguel Rivera

If Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. wants Robert Garcia to be his coach for the upcoming fight with Canelo Alvarez, then the former middleweight champion will have to move to California to training at Garcia's gym in Riverside.

"I have a team at my gym in Riverside, fighters who come to my gym at Riverside. I think it's not fair for a fighter, no matter how big the fight, to leave them alone or with my assistants when they are the ones who are looking for me," said Robert Garcia to ESPN Deportes.

Garcia is mentioned insistently as an option to get Chavez Jr. for the big HBO Pay-Per-View showdown on May 6.

Chávez Jr. wants to train at the Otomí Ceremonial Center in Mexico, where he started working with his uncle Rodolfo Chávez.

Garcia is very firm that he will not leave his stable of fighters in order to travel to Mexico to train Chavez for eight weeks.

"I think if Julio is looking for my services, I'm happy to do it and he has all of the potential to beat Canelo, but the camp has to be in Riverside," Garcia said.

Garcia explained that WBA featherweight champion Abner Mares has resumed his preparation for a potential unification fight with his compatriot Leo Santa Cruz and that in the coming days, his brother Mikey, who just captured the WBC lightweight title, will start training again as well.

"Abner already discussed the subject [with me], he already started to train and for me to leave for a couple of weeks - I think it's not fair. He is a world champion and he is very dedicated, he has a lot of respect for my work," Garcia said.

"If I'm going to train a fighter for a championship fight or a major fight, I like to focus eight or ten weeks at one hundred percent, not to divide it up [traveling between locations]."

"I would love to be a part of that fight and I know we can do good things with Julio because he has the strength, he has the reach, the power, he has everything to beat Canelo, but he has to be at Riverside for camp."