Son of boxing great who was arrested on gun charges and robbed by party girls is fighting Jake Paul
JULIO CESAR CHAVEZ JR has been arrested on gun charges, robbed by
scantily clad women
in a hotel room and QUIT during fights.
But perhaps his greatest crime of all would be losing to
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Jake Paul fights Julio Cesar Chavez Jr
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Chavez Sr is his legendary dad
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Chavez Jr was once allegedly robbed by party girls in his Las Vegas hotel
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The son of Julio Cesar Sr - Mexico's most beloved fighter - has lived a colourful as well as controversial life and career.
He grew up surrounded by his legendary father's success, watching his dad win world titles in three divisions.
And he was thrust into the national limelight when he was just a boy - fighting in a televised exhibition against the son of boxer Jorge Paez.
Chavez started boxing again at 17 and turned professional the same year in 2003 - despite having NO amateur background.
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The second generation star was forced to learn on the job and had up to 11 BOUTS in 2004 - under the microscope of a nation.
By 2011, Chavez Jr was WBC middleweight world champion - beating Sebastian Zbik - after cramming 45 fights into eight years.
He made three successful defences of the famous green and gold belt - which his dad helped make so prestigious - including a win over Ireland's Andy Lee.
But in Chavez Jr's next fight - against Argentine Sergio Martinez - the wheels started to fall off.
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The 160lb champion was trained by the esteemed Freddie Roach at that time, sharing the gym with Filipino icon
But Chavez Jr proved hard to deal with, setting his own training times and often no-showing Roach - all of which was captured by camera crews.
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In one scene, Roach is waiting in the gym and after hours of no-showing, he is informed Chavez Jr would not be coming to the gym.
Roach said: "He doesn't want to train? What the f***. No, I have never seen anything like this. Never."
Years later, Roach revealed: "When you saw me on HBO waiting at the gym, that happened 31 times, but didn't I want to kill the guy.
"The only reason I stayed was because his father asked me to stay and I respected his dad.
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"He kept telling me to stay, that he would show up, but he never did. He sparred five days for that fight, he did the mitts four days for that fight.
"He ate Cheerios with his underwear on at home more than he was in the gym.
"I love Julio, he's a great guy but I'm disappointed that he didn't show his best that night."
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Chavez Jr no-showed trainer Freddie Roach at the gym
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The boxer eats Cheerios in his underwear after a lie-in
Chavez Jr would have an on and off relationship with Roach over the following years and at one point hired Spanish-speaking American Robert Garcia.
Garcia was helped by Los Angeles-based Ricky Funez - and the two also shared
Funez said: 'Me and Robert are good friends from when we were trying to train Julio Cesar Chavez Jr, who was a total rebel we had to try to control together.
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'One day it was my turn to look after him and I went to knock on his hotel door and he was gone - he had jumped out of the second-floor window to go party, it took me two f***ing days to find him.'
By 2017, Chavez Jr had positioned himself into a
Chavez Jr - who had again switched trainers this time to Ignacio "Nacho" Beristain -
With that kind of confidence, fans would have been forgiven for believing the undisciplined son-of-a-legend had changed his ways.
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Canelo Alvaez beat Chavez Jr in 12 one-sided rounds in 2017
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One judge did not even score a round in Chavez Jr's favour
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But after 12 rounds with Canelo - of which one judge failed to score anything in Chavez Jr's favour - it became apparent nothing was different.
Chavez Jr was guaranteed $3million (£2.3m) for the one-sided beating - and celebrated in style.
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Chavez Jr - married to his wife Frida with whom he shares daughter Julia and son Junior with - had to deny that they were prostitutes.
He said: "I would never pay to sleep with a woman.
"I know I am very trusting, and it was an error, but it's too much to say I'm the worst and that I am a bad example for kids.'
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Denying allegations of cheating, the boxer added: 'Money comes and goes, but I want to make it clear to my wife that nothing happened with the women in the video.'
Frida - who stuck by Chavez Jr and remains married to him to this day - accused the women of
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Chavez Jr partied with women in his Vegas hotel after losing to Canelo
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The girls were accused of stealing his watch and fight cheque
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Chavez Jr also denied that they were prostitutes
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Not only that, she even alleged that his $3m fight cheque was also stolen.
The married couple allegedly met a British man and a group of women in the hotel bar on May 8 before she went upstairs to look after their daughter.
Frida said they were with the boxer until 5 or 6am - but when she checked the room the next morning the items had gone.
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Frida
told
The cheque was later retrieved.
Chavez Jr's career hit a standstill after losing to
Against Daniel Jacobs in 2019, Chavez Jr was
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He first cited a hand injury before his team blamed a busted nose - but his embarrassed dad was left head in hands in frustration.
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Chavez Jr quit after five rounds against Danny Jacobs
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Chavez Sr was left head in hands
Chavez Sr battled cocaine addiction throughout his career and needed his son to check him into rehab - saving his life.
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But the roles reversed later in life and Chavez Jr was regularly in and out of rehab as he fought substance abuse himself.
His dad said last year: "Honestly, I thought Julio was going to die at any moment.
"It was a constant worry, every day wondering if he would wake up or not."
Chavez Jr was even in line to fight YouTuber-turned-boxer Paul in 2022 - but he was in a facility at the time.
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Paul posted: "(He) was near the top of the list. But unfortunately he is going through rehab. Hopefully in the future."
A year prior,
Things looked to hit an all-time low in January 2024 when Chavez Jr was arrested in LA on gun charges.
According to police, he unlawfully possessed two AR-style ghost rifles and was later freed from custody on a $50,000 bond.
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Chavez Jr was arrested on gun charges in January 2024
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Chavez Jr with his dad, daughter Julia and son Jr
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But Chavez Jr was forced to enter the residential treatment program.
Thankfully, the troubled fighter has turned things around over the past year and returned to the ring last July.
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He beat ex-UFC star Uriah Hall, 40, the night Paul stopped bare-knuckle boxer Mike Perry in Florida and has been a year sober.
Chavez Jr told us: 'I have had too many problems in the past with substances and drinking and things like that.
'So I have for a couple of years tried to stop but it's hard for me to stop alone. So I go to one of the places here after a problem that I had.
'And after that, I'm continuously sober for the first time. I have been for one year a month. I really don't remember my bad days and I enjoy these days.'
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I haven't seen him train at this level for many years. If he keeps this up until the fight, there is no way Jake Paul is going to beat my son.
Julio Cesar Chavez Sr
Paul's last fight was as controversial as it was commercially successful when heavyweight great Mike Tyson came out of retirement aged 58.
Still over
100 MILLION
watched on Netflix - prompting Paul to enter shock talks to fight Canelo and lightweight champ Gervonta Davis.
But after both collapsed, the American celebrity re-entered talks with Chavez Jr -
Paul told SunSport: "Chavez and I have been going back and forth for a long time and he's always been a great opponent on the list of someone that I wanted to fight.
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"And now it made perfect sense to go up against him as a former world champion and just continuing to further my resume and get more time under the lights."
Chavez Jr once claimed he would RETIRE and
So the nepo baby puts his and his father's legacy on the line on June 28 in Anaheim in a 200lb cruiserweight clash on DAZN PPV.
And Chavez Sr boasted: "I haven't seen him train at this level for many years. If he keeps this up until the fight, there is no way Jake Paul is going to beat my son."
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Chavez Jr returns in California against Jake Paul
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