Photos courtesy Chris Farina
Boxing legend Julio Cesar Chavez Sr. arrives in Guadalajara, Mexico Sunday in advance of his Tuesday press conference to announce a special night that will take place on Saturday, June 19th at the Jalisco Stadium in Guadalajara, Mexico.
Chavez Sr. will headline the exciting “Tribute To The Kings” , where he will make his final ring appearance against Hector Camacho Jr. in an exhibition bout.
Also on the card will be Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. against an opponent to be announced and Omar Chavez who will take on Ramon Alvarez in the rubber match of their trilogy.
Promoted by Borizteca Boxing and Toscano Promotions, “Tribute to The Kings” will be live on Pay-Per-View and is being produced by Global Sports Streaming.
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Chavez, in his prime, really tended to bust up the faces of his opponents pretty consistently. I remember him breaking Meldrick Taylor’s orbital bone along with wrecking his face in general. Busted up Rosario badly, along with Sammy Fuentes, Angel Hernandez, and many others. What Antonio Margarito did to Miguel Cotto in their first fight, Chavez did to his opponents routinely. Chavez’ punches didn’t look particularly explosive. Dude must have been the heaviest-handed guy in the history of boxing.
So is it possible Margarito learned a trick from Chavez to make his fist as hard as dried ‘plaster of Paris’? Thinking back on it, Chavez did bust guys faces up in an unusual way. Margarito hasn’t done it since getting caught. Interestingly, the Boxing commission has never caught anyone cheating with gloves. Nazeem Richardson had to make the discovery(Margarito-Mosley) because the commission is either blind, incompetent, or corrupt.
Read the wiki page on Chavez-Taylor. It mentioned that Taylor sustained “several fractures” in this fight, and also sustained kidney damage, and was urinating blood. Again, Chavez was quite a bit slower than Taylor, and his punches didn’t look all that explosive. Chavez must have had superhuman power to cause that kind of damage.
It’s almost a certainty that Margarito fought with loaded gloves prior to the Moseley fight, where, as you said, Richardson….not the commission, busted Margarito. Remember what Margarito did to Cotto’s face the first time? His punches suddenly weren’t that damaging when after he was caught, and he went on a losing streak, including being dominated by Cotto in the rematch.
Not sure if boxing commissions inspect hand-wraps after fights, but it would be mind boggling if they didn’t after the Collin-Resto bout. Even in that fight, one of Collin’s cornermen grabbed Resto’s glove and noticed the padding missing. Again, it was the cornerman in that case, not the commission, who caught that. Panama Lewis was in the corner of Resto that night. Have read articles theorizing that Lewis may have tampered with Pryor’s gloves/hand-wraps against Arguello as well, due to Arguello busting up the way he did in those fights. Pathetic that the sport could let things like that slip under the radar.
Cotto was fired up for the rematch but his face at the end of that fight was still lumped up pretty badly .
Compare Cotto’s face after the 2 Margarito fights. Even Mayweather, who many on this board say is feather-fisted, marked up Cotto more than Margarito did in the rematch. Not much doubt in my mind that Margarito cheated more than once. He was very ordinary after getting caught.
He plastered his gloves as well routinely?
Except he did it without loaded gloves. A real Mexican fighter. Not a fake cheater.
I’m a gambling man and I’ll bet anyone anything that this isn’t Chavez Sr’s last ring appearance unless he gets hit by a bus or hits the megabucks for 100 mil plus.
Well said. Chavez Sr. has been jumping in/out of the ring for years saying this will be my last time every single time. LOL…..What a hoot! Atleast he puts forth the effort much better than his son when the bell rings!
Can’t wait for this on PPV?
NOT!!!
No Way Jose!
Do you need me to lend you some money so you can afford it? Another so called boxing fan (NOT) complaining. How the hell do you expect the promoters to recoup the costs of presenting the event? Everyone wants something for nothing. Get a job. Nothing in this world is free.
So now people say he used to load his gloves?…so every hard hitter now is suspected of loading gloves?
only hatters are saying that –
I’m saying that he wrecked a lot of faces. I always thought he looked a step behind other pound4pound fighters of that era as far as speed, overall boxing skills, etc, but his punches sure did a lot of damage. Shane Moseley, for example, appeared to have a lot more snap and force on his punches, but somehow didn’t bust his opponents up nearly as much as Chavez. Taylor sustained an unusual amount of damage against Chavez.
You obviously didn’t watch the man in his prime. Chavez was amazing at hitting the open spot wherever it was. Supremely skilled puncher. And yeah mosley probably did have more snap and speed. Thats the benefits of steroids!!
I literally watched every big fight of Chavez. I’ve seen several big punchers over the years, but I can’t recall many opponents sustain that much facial damage (and kidney damage) as Taylor did that night. I’m not saying Chavez did any wrong…..there’s no known proof that he did….just saying he REALLY f’d Taylor’s face up in a fight he was otherwise losing. Can’t think about Chavez-Taylor without thinking about Margarito-Cotto 1, due to the absolute mess done to the faces of Cotto and Taylor. I’ve seen several seemingly bigger punchers do far less damage than Chavez inflicted on opponents. FWIW, I was a fan of JCC back then. Maybe he just had deceptive power. He damn sure used to open people’s face up, that’s for sure.
Usually the bigger puncher get the opponent out quicker than Chavez would. Chávez would chop the opponent down as opposed to a bigger puncher like cintron who took matthysse out in a couple rounds. Big difference. You take an out by a couple big shots, not much time to bust the opponent, you take an opponent out on the 11-12 round and you had all those rounds to damage the face. That’s why it may be more advantageous to be kod quickly than after 10-11 long rounds especially from a pressure fighter…but gloves must’ve been loaded.
I hope the great Chavez, Sr. keeps his promise because I only want to think of Chavez Sr.’s predatory boxing skills during his prime boxing years.
Chavez was a true warrior and I have tons of fond memories of his fights at the Olympic auditorium and the Inglewood Forum which I was fortunate to have witnessed live. The part I’d rather forget is when he went from stoic humble assassin to cry baby and it happened after the money started rolling in. I vividly recall the excuses after each performance “I had diarrhea”, “my hand was hurt”, “my back went out”, “my nose was busted in sparring”, “my kid head butted me while playing”… the list goes on and on not to include the bitching to the referee of low blows, head butts and elbows etc… the constant crying started after the Meldrick Taylor fight.
No wonder Julio Jr became the whining complaining bitch he became, born with a golden spoon in his mouth over privileged cry baby never earned a title fight for the bogus 160lb belt he won. The same belt Hagler held. Back in the 80’s Chavez jr would have been inferior to Tony Sibson, Mustafa Hamsho and Wilford Scypion. All Hagler knockout victims. Just saddened to hear of these crybaby’s today bitching and whining for huge purses while never having earned them the way Marvin Hagler did.
OUCH !!!!
Oh goody gumdrops we get to see Chavez Jr…….again.
Put Yory Boy on the Card
I am not a fan of Chavez Jr by any stretch but I hope he doesn’t embarrass himself and as a result embarrass boxing by having Silva from UFC beat him up at boxing’s own game. I can hear the MMA nuthuggers now if it happened.