Julio César Chávez, Jr.
| Julio César Chávez Jr. | |
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| Statistics | |
| Real name | Julio César Chávez Carrasco |
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| Rated at | |
| Height | 6 ft 1 in (185 cm) |
| Reach | 73 in (185 cm) |
| Nationality | Mexican |
| Born |
February 16, 1986 Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico |
| Stance | Orthodox |
| Boxing record | |
| Total fights | 55 |
| Wins | 50 |
| Wins by KO | 32 |
| Losses | 3 |
| Draws | 1 |
| No contests | 1 |
Julio César Chávez Carrasco (born February 16, 1986), best known as Julio César Chávez Jr., is a Mexican professional boxer who held the WBC middleweight title from 2011 to 2012. He is the son of retired six-time world boxing champion Julio César Chávez and older brother of Omar Chávez.
Chávez Jr. was born in the state of Sinaloa, when his father held the WBC World Championship at super featherweight. His face became known to boxing fans when his father would take him and his brother Omar into the ring as children, before each of Chávez Sr.'s fights. As a teenager, Chávez Jr. endured some difficult moments, including a publicized relationship between his father and actress Salma Hayek and the consequential divorce of his parents. Chávez Jr. lived in relative obscurity until he announced that he would follow in the footsteps of his father and become a boxer.
On part of his career Chávez Jr. has struggled with discipline issues such as training properly, reaching the right weight before his fights and his alleged use of illegal substances. On February, 2014, Chávez and his girlfriend welcomed their first daughter, Julia.
Chávez's amateur career consisted of only two fights against former world champion Jorge Páez's oldest son Jorge Páez Jr.; both of the exhibitions bouts were shown on Mexican television.
After those amateur fights, Chávez Jr. started his professional boxing career at 17 years old. On September 26, 2003, at Super Featherweight (130 lbs), he won his professional debut by outpointing Jonathan Hernandez over six rounds in Chávez Jr.'s native Culiacán, Sinaloa. Chávez Jr. is signed with Bob Arum's Top Rank. Many of his fights have been held during boxing programs that have been headed by his father; he has also been featured on the undercards of many major pay-per-view fights (rare for an up-and-coming fighter, but not unexpected in his case given his father's fame). He is considerably taller than his father. Chávez Jr. set a fighting pace that was reminiscent of Chávez Sr.'s own pace when the latter was a younger man: in 2004, he fought eleven times, not having a fight only in August during that year.
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