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Mexican boxer Julio César Chávez Jr. was arrested on Thursday by ice for expulsion. The arrest intervened only a few days after Chávez’s defeat against YouTuber Jake Paul in Anaheim, California, the last weekend in June.
Chávez was arrested for exceeding her visa and lying on a green card request. It was processed for an accelerated dismissal, according to the American authorities.
The news of the arrest prompted the fighting community in a frenzy, Chávez Jr. suddenly emerging as an important figure in the country’s deportation saga.
Chávez Jr. has extensive criminal history and suspected of alleged ties with a drug cartel, by DHS
According to the Ministry of Internal Security, Chávez Jr. has been accused of several crimes in the United States
On January 22, 2012, California Highwaay Patrol arrested Chávez and charged with alcohol / dual drugs and driving without a license. On June 23, 2012, the California Superior Court, County of Los Angeles, sentenced Chávez guilty of the offense of conduct under the influence of alcohol and sentenced it to 13 days in prison and 36 months of probation.
On January 14, 2023, a district judge issued an arrest warrant against Chávez, for the offense of organized crime with the aim of committing crimes of arms trafficking and manufacturing of crimes, in the modality of those who participated in the creation of arms, ammunition, cartridges, explosives in the country; And those who make weapons, ammunition, cartridges and explosives without the corresponding license.
Julio Cesar Chávez Jr. fights against Jake Paul at the Honda Center. (Images Gary A. Vasquez-Imagn)
On January 7, 2024, the Los Angeles police service arrested Chavez and charged it with illegal possession of an assault and manufacturing or importing gun in Baril Court. The court sentenced Chavez to these accusations.
The DHS also suspects that Chavez would be considered an affiliate of the Sinaloa cartel, an designated foreign terrorist organization. The application of Chavez was based on his marriage to an American citizen, who is linked to the Sinaloa cartel by a previous relationship with the deceased son of the famous leader of the cartel Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, according to DHS.
Meanwhile, Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Friday that Mexico had not stopped the boxer Chávez Jr. before during an arrest order in 2023, as he was mainly in the United States at the time.
“Hope is that he will be expelled and will purge the sentence in Mexico,” said Sheinbaum at his daily conference on Friday, referring to the accusations that Chávez faces weapons and drug trafficking.
Biden administration left Chávez Jr. in the country just before the former president left his duties, by Dhs
The boxer was almost thrown outside the country months ago.
According to the DHS, in December 2024, the citizenship and immigration services of the United States had referred to the ice that Chávez was a “flagrant threat of public security”, but Chavez was authorized to return to the country on January 4, 2025 after the files indicated that the Biden administration had not given it a priority for applying immigration.
After the Biden administration, Chavez allowed Chavez to return to the country and released it to the country of the Port of Entrance to San Ysidro, by DHS.
Chávez Jr. is the son of a famous boxer, who shares problems with drug addiction
Chávez Jr.’s father, Julio César Chávez Sr., is a world champion several times in three different weight divisions. Chávez Sr. would have grown up in an abandoned railway car with its five sisters and four brothers, according to a 1993 article by South Florida Sun Sentinel.
The father is considered one of the most beloved athletes in Mexican history and a member of the renowned temple of international boxing.
During the childhood of Chávez Jr., his father would take him regularly, he and his brother, before the fights.
However, Chávez Jr. also published several videos on Tiktok in which he accuses his father of abuse.
Chávez Sr. fought against drugs, especially alcohol and cocaine.
“At first I [could] Check it, but I just needed more alcohol and more cocaine and more and more, “said Chavez Sr. This is when failures started, defeats.”
Chavez Jr. also developed a medication habit.
Julio CESAR CHAVEZ JR. enters right before fighting Jake Paul at the Honda Center on June 28, 2025. (Images Gary A. Vasquez-Imagn)
In 2009, Chávez Jr. was tested positive for furosemide, a diuretics that can be used for weight cutting or as a masking agent for other substances. This led to a suspension and a fine. In 2012, after losing against Sergio Martinez, he was tested positive for marijuana. He received a fine and a nine -month suspension. In 2017, he tested positive for marijuana before a fight with Canelo Alvarez.
Then in 2020, Chávez Jr. was suspended indefinitely for refusing to pass a drug screening test.
When Chávez Jr. was arrested for firearms in January 2024, he was then released on a deposit of $ 50,000 to the state he went to a residential drug treatment center.
Chávez Jr. built a successful boxing career before becoming one of Paul’s most legitimate opponents
Jake Paul moves down against Julio Cesar Chávez Jr. at the Honda Center. (Images Vasquez-Imagn)
Chávez Jr. won his first title in 2009 in the World Boxing Council Latino Super Featherweight Division. The following year, he won the WBC Silver Middleweight vacant crown, beating John Duddy by unanimous decision.
In June 2011, Chávez Jr. won his greatest victory at that time, defeating Sebastian Zbik by majority decision in the WBC’s average weight title in Los Angeles.
He then successfully defended the crown three times against Peter Manfredo Jr., Marco Antonio Rubio and Andy Lee.
Chávez Jr. made his à la carte debut in 2012 against Sergio “Maravilla” Martinez d’Argentine, who is 11 years older than Chavez Jr., but that turned out to be his first loss. Martinez beat Chávez by unanimous decision.
After the fight, Chávez was suspended for nine months and sentenced to a fine of $ 900,000 by the Nevada State Athletic Commission after being tested positive for marijuana.
In 2017, Chávez Jr. fought Canelo Alvarez in Las Vegas during his second à la carte fight, but also lost it by unanimous decision.
He stopped fighting for two years, then in 2019, he lost against the former middle weight champion Daniel Jacobs in Las Vegas. Chávez Jr. then fought in Mexico, including a defeat against the former champion of mixed martial arts Anderson Silva by decision shared in 2021.
After a three -year break in the ring, in which Chávez Jr. faced his legal and substances, he returned last July, beating Uriah Hall in Tampa, Florida.
Then came his long-awaited match with Jake Paul in Anaheim last weekend, where the Youtuber won by unanimous decision to win an official WBA ranking Cruiserweight.
And then after the news of the arrest of Mexican on Thursday, Paul went to X to publish an emoji of the American flag.
