{"id":602507,"date":"2026-05-25T05:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T05:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/602507\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T05:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T05:39:09","slug":"julio-cesar-chavez-says-he-cant-call-himself-the-greatest-mexican-fighter-ever-thats-the-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/602507\/","title":{"rendered":"Julio Cesar Chavez says he can’t call himself the greatest Mexican fighter ever: “That’s the truth”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Julio Cesar Chavez<\/a> has dismissed claims that he is the greatest Mexican fighter of all time, saying it is \u201cdisrespectful\u201d to overlook the achievements of his countrymen.<\/p>\n

Despite his humility, many would still regard Chavez as the best boxer to come out of Mexico, largely because of his astonishing 90-fight unbeaten run.<\/p>\n

This undefeated streak saw him become a three-division world champion, with the pound-for-pound legend being involved in 27 major title fights during that time.<\/p>\n

He did, of course, come close to experiencing his first defeat in 1993, when many felt he was fortunate to retain his WBC title with a draw against Pernell Whitaker.<\/p>\n

It was in 1994, however, when Chavez suffered his first professional loss<\/a> \u2013 against Frankie Randall \u2013 before exacting his revenge in their immediate rematch.<\/p>\n

Another Mexican boxer to be named among the all-time greats, meanwhile, was Salvador Sanchez, whose life and career was tragically cut short in 1982<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Prior to that, Sanchez had made nine defences of his WBC featherweight title, defeating the likes of Azumah Nelson and Wilfredo Gomez with stunning stoppages.<\/p>\n

When considering fighters like Sanchez, then, it is difficult for Chavez to accept his unofficial title \u2013 as Mexico\u2019s greatest boxer in history. In an interview with Luis Parra<\/a> Chavez claims \u2018the truth\u2019 is that all the greats were the best in their time.<\/p>\n

\u201cI find it disrespectful [to other Mexicans]. How many great world champions have we had? The truth is that each one [was] the greatest in their time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mexico\u2019s all-time greatest champions also include the likes of Juan Manuel Marquez, Erik Morales and Marco Antonio Barrera, who were involved in a selection of iconic showdowns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Julio Cesar Chavez has dismissed claims that he is the greatest Mexican fighter of all time, saying it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":602508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-602507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}