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Almost two months after losing a fight against YouTuber Jake Paul, boxer Julio César Chávez Jr. has been deported to Mexico. Chávez Jr. is sought for alleged poster ties in Mexico.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum confirmed the news at her daily press conference on Tuesday.
“I understand that he was deported. I don't know if it was yesterday or this morning, but they informed us that he was arriving in Mexico,” said Sheinbaum.
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Julio César Chávez Jr. de México arrives for his cruise weight boxing match against Jake Paul at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California, on June 28, 2025. (Patrick T. Fallon/AFP)
The boxer was arrested in the USA on July 3 for overcoming its visa and going to bed in a green card application. The arrest occurred less than a week after losing his fight back against Paul on June 28 in Anaheim, California.
Chávez, 39, had an arrest warrant in Mexico for alleged weapons and drug trafficking and ties with the Sinaloa cartel. Alejandro Gertz Manero, Attorney General of Mexico, said that Chávez investigation began in 2019.
Sheinbaum said after the arrest, he expected the boxer to be deported to face his positions.
Chávez's father was a celebrity in the eighties and nineties that mixed social circles with drug traffickers and claimed to have been a friend of the drug trafficker Amado Carrillo Fuentes.
The iconic fighter defended his son after his arrest, but has not spoken from deportation.
The youngest Chávez has fought against drug addiction for much of his boxing career, in the drug tests that fail, serve suspensions and are atrociously lacking weight while being widely criticized for his intermittent dedication to sport. Chávez won the MBB medium weight title in 2011 and defended it three times. He shared the ring with the great generational Canelo Álvarez and Sergio Martínez, losing to both.
In 2012, Chávez was convicted of drunk driving in Los Angeles and sentenced to 13 days in jail. In January 2024, he was arrested for charges of arms. Police said he had two ghost -style ghost rifles. He was later released with a bail of $ 50,000 and with the condition that he went to a residential drug treatment center. The case is still pending, and Chavez informs his progress regularly.
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The boxer Jake Paul fights against Julio César Chávez Jr. at the Honda Center on June 28, 2025. (Gary A. Vasquez/ Imagn images)
According to the Department of National Security, Chávez Jr. has been accused of several crimes while in the United States
On January 22, 2012, the California road patrol arrested Chávez and accused him of DUI of alcohol/drugs and driving without a license. On June 23, 2012, the Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, condemned Chavez for the crime of driving under the influence of alcohol and sentenced him to 13 days in jail and 36 months of probation.
On January 14, 2023, a district judge issued an arrest warrant against Chávez for the crime of organized crime with the purpose of committing crimes of arms trafficking and manufacturing crimes, in the modality of those who participate in bringing weapons clandestinely, ammunition, cartridges, explosives in the country; and those who manufacture weapons, ammunition, cartridges and explosives without the corresponding permission.
On January 7, 2024, the Los Angeles Police Department arrested Chavez and accused him of illegal possession of an assault weapon and manufacturing or importing short cannons rifle. The court condemned Chavez for these positions.
The DHS also suspects that it is believed that Chávez is an affiliate of the Sinaloa cartel, a designated foreign terrorist organization. Chávez's request was based on his marriage to an American citizen, who is connected to the Sinaloa cartel through a previous relationship with the now deceased son of the infamous leader of the Joaquín poster “El Chapo” Guzmán, according to DHS.
The boxer was almost expelled from the country months ago.
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Julio César Chávez Jr., on the right, of Mexico, speaks with his father, the legendary boxer Julio César Chávez, on the left, at a press conference to promote his next medium -weight championship boxing match with Sergio Martinez from Argentina in Los Angeles, on July 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, Archive)
According to the DHS, in December 2024, American citizenship and immigration services had made a reference to the ice that Chavez was a “threat of atrocious public security”, but Chávez was allowed to re -enter the country on January 4, 2025, after the records indicated that the administration of former President Joe Biden had not turned it into a priority of immigration compliance.
Subsequently, the Biden Administration allowed Chávez to re -enter the country and jump in the country at the San Ysidro entrance port, according to DHS.
Associated Press contributed to this report.
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