Jacobs v Chavez: Chavez Jr issues warning to the Super Middleweight champs

12/16/2019 Matchroom Boxing

Julio Cesar Chavez Jr has issued a warning to the World Super Middleweight champions that he’s coming for their titles after he takes on Daniel Jacobs at the Turning Stone Resort Casino in Phoenix, Arizona on Friday December 20, live on DAZN in the US and on Sky Sports in the UK.

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Meldrick Taylor: He Is Defined By One Fight And One Fight Only

10/19/201910/19/2019 James Slater

Today Meldrick Taylor celebrates his 53rd birthday. The former Olympic gold medal winner and two-time world champion had an amazing career, his brilliance in the ring wowing fans in the 1980s and ’90s.

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Today In ’93: Robbery At The Alamodome As Pernell Whitaker Is Held To A Draw By Julio Cesar Chavez

09/10/2019 James Slater

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwON5k62O6U

Some fans say it was the worst robbery in boxing history. Others say we have seen worse, but not, thankfully, too much.

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25 Years Ago: The Greatest Mexican Fighter In History Was Dissected By A Surgeon: Randall/Chavez

01/29/2019 James Slater

If the great Julio Cesar Chavez is the finest fighter to have ever come out of the proud country of Mexico then Frankie Randall is the man responsible for pulling off one of the biggest boxing upsets of the 1990s.

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All these years later: Did Steele get it right in stopping Chavez-Taylor?

03/17/2018 James Slater

28 long years ago today, Saint Patrick’s Day in 1990, a truly great, controversial and simply unforgettable prizefight took place in Las Vegas; a fight so crammed full of drama that, had it been a piece of fiction depicted in a boxing movie, it would have been highly criticised for being far, far, far too unrealistic.

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25 years ago today: The Chavez-Haugen monster card and the biggest live gate of all-time

02/21/201802/20/2018 James Slater

An incredible, record-breaking 133,000 fans packed into Azteca Stadium in Mexico a quarter of a century ago today; most, if not all of these fans in attendance to watch their fistic hero Julio Cesar Chavez beat up on trash-talking challenger Greg Haugen.

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When the great Julio Cesar Chavez lost his unbeaten record – 89-0-1!

01/29/2018 James Slater

Simply unbeatable in his prime years – 1984 to 1993 – Mexican icon and all-time great Julio Cesar Chavez tore through the super-featherweight, lightweight and super-lightweight divisions, capturing world titles in each weight class and retaining them for a substantial amount of time.

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Fighting through the blood, sweat and tears

09/25/202201/05/2018 James Slater

Right now, UK trade paper Boxing News has a list of the worst facial injuries suffered by fighters. Ring magazine had a special a few years back, in which boxing’s bloodiest brawls and their bloodiest bleeders were recalled.

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“Don’t believe that,” says Anthony Dirrell on Julio Cesar Chavez Junior fight

09/20/2017 James Slater

Anthony Dirrell says we can forget all about the recent tweet put out by Julio Cesar Chavez Junior, who said he would be fighting Dirrell on November 11 (the fight even going up on BoxRec).

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Canelo vs Chavez Jr: Oscar De La Hoya urges Chavez Jr to “stop tweeting lies and sign the contract”

01/12/2017 James Slater

It seems Oscar De La Hoya is running out of patience over the ongoing negotiations for the possible May 6 Canelo Alvarez-Julio Cesar Chavez Junior fight.

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