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Mexican boxer Julio César Chávez Jr. was arrested by ICE on Thursday for deportation. The arrest got here simply days after Chávez’s loss to YouTuber Jake Paul in Anaheim, California, on the final weekend of June.
Chávez was arrested for overstaying his visa and mendacity on a inexperienced card software. He was being processed for expedited removal, in keeping with U.S. authorities.
Information of the arrest set the combating group right into a frenzy, with Chávez Jr. out of the blue rising as a distinguished determine within the nation’s ongoing deportation saga.
Chávez Jr. has an in depth felony historical past and suspected alleged ties to a drug cartel, per DHS
In accordance with the Division of Homeland Safety, Chávez Jr. has been charged with a number of crimes whereas within the U.S.
On Jan. 22, 2012, California Highwaay Patrol arrested Chávez and charged him with DUI alcohol/medication and driving and not using a license. On June 23, 2012, the Superior Courtroom of California, County of Los Angeles, convicted Chávez of the offense of driving drunk and sentenced him to 13 days in jail and 36 months’ probation.
On Jan. 14, 2023, a District Choose issued an arrest warrant for Chávez, for the offense of organized crime for the aim of committing crimes of weapons trafficking and manufacturing crimes, within the modality of those that take part in clandestinely bringing weapons, ammunition, cartridges, explosives into the nation; and people who manufacture weapons, ammunition, cartridges, and explosives with out the corresponding allow.
Julio Cesar Chávez Jr. fights towards Jake Paul at Honda Middle. (Gary A. Vasquez-Imagn Pictures)
On Jan. 7, 2024, the Los Angeles Police Division arrested Chavez and charged him with Unlawful Possession of an assault weapon and manufacture or import short-barreled rifle. The court docket convicted Chavez of those costs.’
DHS additionally suspects Chavez is allegedly believed to be an affiliate of the Sinaloa Cartel, a chosen Overseas Terrorist Group. Chavez’s software was based mostly on his marriage to a U.S. citizen, who’s related to the Sinaloa Cartel by way of a previous relationship with the now-deceased son of the notorious cartel chief Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, in keeping with DHS.
In the meantime, Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum stated Friday that Mexico hadn’t beforehand arrested boxer Chávez Jr. on a 2023 arrest order, as a result of he had been largely within the U.S. at the moment.
“The hope is that he can be deported and serve the sentence in Mexico,” Sheinbaum stated throughout her every day information briefing Friday, referring to costs that Chávez faces for arms and drug trafficking.
The Biden administration let Chávez Jr. into the nation simply earlier than the previous president left workplace, per DHS
The boxer was practically solid in a foreign country months in the past.
In accordance with DHS, in December 2024, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Providers had made a referral to ICE that Chávez was an “egregious public security risk,” however Chavez was allowed to reenter the nation on Jan. 4, 2025 after information indicated the Biden Administration had not made him an immigration enforcement precedence.
After the Biden administration allowed Chavez to reenter the nation and paroled him into the nation on the San Ysidro port of entry, per DHS.
Chávez Jr. is the son of a famed boxer, who shares points with substance abuse
Chávez Jr.’s father, Julio César Chávez Sr., is a multiple-time world champion in three completely different weight divisions. Chávez Sr. reportedly grew up in an deserted railroad automobile along with his 5 sisters and 4 brothers, in keeping with a 1993 article by the South Florida Solar Sentinel.
The daddy is taken into account probably the most beloved athletes in Mexican historical past and a member of the Worldwide Boxing Corridor of Fame.
Throughout Chávez Jr.’s childhood, his father would often take him and his brother into the ring earlier than fights.
Nevertheless, Chávez Jr. has additionally posted a number of movies on TikTok wherein he accuses his father of abuse.
Chávez Sr. struggled with medication, particularly alcohol and cocaine.
“At first I [could] management it, however I simply wanted extra alcohol and extra cocaine and an increasing number of,” Chavez Sr. told NPR in a 2015 interview. “That is when the issues actually began. That is when the failures started, the defeats.”
Chavez Jr. additionally developed a drug behavior.
Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. enters the proper earlier than combating Jake Paul at Honda Middle on June 28, 2025. (Gary A. Vasquez-Imagn Pictures)
In 2009, Chávez Jr. examined optimistic for furosemide, a diuretic that can be utilized for weight chopping or as a masking agent for different substances. This resulted in a suspension and superb. In 2012, after dropping to Sergio Martinez, he examined optimistic for marijuana. He obtained a superb and a nine-month suspension. In 2017, he examined optimistic for marijuana earlier than a combat with Canelo Alvarez.
Then in 2020, Chávez Jr. was suspended indefinitely for refusing to take a drug take a look at.
When Chávez Jr. was arrested on gun costs in January 2024, he was later freed on a $50,000 bond on the situation he go to a residential drug remedy facility.
Chávez Jr. constructed a profitable boxing profession earlier than changing into one in all Paul’s most authentic opponents
Jake Paul strikes in for successful towards Julio Cesar Chávez Jr. at Honda Middle. (Vasquez-Imagn Pictures)
Chávez Jr. received his first title in 2009 within the World Boxing Council Latino tremendous featherweight division. The subsequent 12 months he received the vacant WBC silver middleweight crown, defeating John Duddy by unanimous resolution.
In June 2011, Chávez Jr. received his best victory at that time, defeating Sebastian Zbik by majority resolution within the WBC middleweight title in Los Angeles.
He then efficiently defended the crown 3 times towards Peter Manfredo Jr., Marco Antonio Rubio and Andy Lee.
Chávez Jr. made his pay-per-view debut in 2012 towards Sergio “Maravilla” Martinez of Argentina, who’s 11 years older than Chavez Jr., however it proved to be his first loss. Martinez defeated Chávez by unanimous resolution.
After the combat, Chávez was suspended for 9 months and fined $900,000 by the Nevada State Athletic Fee after he examined optimistic for marijuana.
In 2017, Chávez Jr. fought Canelo Alvarez in Las Vegas in his second pay-per-view combat, however misplaced that one too by unanimous resolution.
He stopped combating for 2 years, after which in 2019 he misplaced to former middleweight champion Daniel Jacobs in Las Vegas. Chávez Jr. then fought once more in Mexico, together with a loss to former blended martial arts champion Anderson Silva by cut up resolution in 2021.
After a three-year break from the ring, wherein Chávez Jr. was coping with his authorized and substance points, he returned final July, beating Uriah Corridor in Tampa, Florida.
Then got here his highly-anticipated match with Jake Paul in Anaheim final weekend, the place the YouTuber received by unanimous resolution to earn an official WBA cruiserweight rating.
After which after information of the Mexican’s arrest on Thursday, Paul took to X to publish an American flag emoji.
Jackson Thompson is a sports activities author for Fox Information Digital. He beforehand labored for ESPN and Enterprise Insider. Jackson has coated the Tremendous Bowl and NBA Finals, and has interviewed iconic figures Usain Bolt, Rob Gronkowski, Jerry Rice, Troy Aikman, Mike Trout, David Ortiz and Roger Clemens.
