{"id":82699,"date":"2025-08-20T03:14:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T03:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/82699\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T03:14:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T03:14:07","slug":"former-middleweight-boxing-champ-arrested-in-mexico-following-deportation-from-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/82699\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Middleweight Boxing Champ Arrested in Mexico Following Deportation from U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_xhout4jgc\">Former middleweight boxing world champion Julio C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez Jr. has been arrested in Mexico amid allegations of cartel involvement, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum confirmed Tuesday via <a class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/julio-cesar-chavez-jr-boxing-mexico-deported-7dc1af5a7954f6e1c063d96fc1137734\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fabiola Sanchez of the AP<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_48y0mreta\">\u201cI understand he was deported. I don\u2019t know if it was yesterday or this morning, but we were informed that he was arriving in Mexico,\u201d Sheinbaum said in a news briefing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_v6tqi36w2\">Ch\u00e1vez was detained earlier this summer on allegations that he lied when applying for a green card and overstayed a visa that had expired in 2024. Now, Mexico has imprisoned him on allegations of arms and drug trafficking, and is accusing him of involvement with the Sinaloa Cartel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_38h3md4ft\">The 39-year-old was the WBC middleweight champion from 2011 to &#8217;12, beating Germany&#8217;s Sebastian Zbik to win the belt. He eventually lost it to Argentina&#8217;s Sergio Martinez. Ch\u00e1vez is the son of Hall of Fame three-division world champion Julio C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_qo4mc8v1c\">The Culiac\u00e1n, Mexico native most recently fought American celebrity Jake Paul on June 28 in Anaheim, losing by unanimous decision.<\/p>\n<p>More on Sports Illustrated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former middleweight boxing world champion Julio C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez Jr. has been arrested in Mexico amid allegations of cartel&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-82699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}