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Almost two months after losing a match to YouTuber Jake Paul, boxer Julio César is Chávez Jr. been deported to Mexico. Chávez Jr. is currently in demand for alleged cartel ribbons in Mexico.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum confirmed the news of his daily press conference on Tuesday.
“I understand that he was deported. I don’t know if it was yesterday or this morning, but we were informed that he was arriving in Mexico,” sheinbaum said.
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Mexicos Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. Arriving at his Cruiserweight boxing match against US Jake Paul in the Honda Center in Anaheim, California, June 28, 2025. (Patrick T. Fallon / AFP)
The boxer was arrested in the United States on July 3rd for exceeding his visa and lying on a green card application. The arrest happened less than a week after losing his comeback match against Paul on June 28 in Anaheim, California.
Chávez, 39, had an arrest warrant for his arrest in Mexico for alleged weapons and drug trafficking and ties to the Sinaloa cartel. Alejandro Gertz Manero, Mexico’s legal lawyer, said the investigation of Chávez started in 2019.
Sheinbaum said after the arrest that she hoped the boxer would be deported to face his charges.
Chávez’s father was a massive celebrity in the 1980s and 1990s that mixed social circles with drug dealers and claimed to have been friends with Drug Lord Amadado Carrillo Fuentes.
The iconic fighter defended his son after his arrest, but has not spoken since the deportation.
The younger Chávez has fought for drug addiction for much of his boxing career, failing drug testing, serving suspensions and creepy lack of weight while criticizing his intermittent dedication to the sport. Chavez won the WBC Middleweight title in 2011 and defended it three times. He shared the ring with Generations Greats Canelo Álvarez and Sergio Martinez and lost for both.
In 2012, he was convicted of drunk driving in Los Angeles and sentenced to 13 days in prison. In January 2024 he was arrested on gun fees. Police said he had two ghost rifles in AR style. He was later released with a bond of $ 50,000, and on condition he went to a housing treatment facility. The case is still awaiting where Chávez reports on his progress regularly.
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Boxer Jake Paul fights against Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. in the Honda Center on June 28, 2025. (Gary A. Vasquez/ Imag- Pictures)
According to the Department of Homeland Security, Chávez Jr. been indicted for several crimes while he is in the US
On January 22, 2012, California arrested Highway Patrol Chávez and accused him of DUI alcohol/drugs and driving without a license. On June 23, 2012, the Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, Chávez sentenced the offense of driving under the influence of alcohol and sentenced him to 13 days in prison and 36 months probation.
On January 14, 2023, a district judge issued an arrest warrant for Chávez for the offense of organized crime for the purpose of committing crimes of arms trade and crimes in the modality of those who participate in secretly bring weapons, ammunition, cartridges, explosives in the country; And those who manufacture weapons, ammunition, cartridges and explosives without the corresponding permission.
On January 7, 2024, Los Angeles Police Department Chavez arrested and accused him of illegal possession of an attack weapon and the manufacture or import of short barrel rifle. The court sentenced Chavez for these charges.
DHS also suspects that Chavez is reportedly assumed to be associated with the Sinaloa Cartel, a designated foreign terrorist organization. Chavez’s application was based on his marriage to a US citizen associated with the Sinaloa cartel through a previous relationship with the now deceased son of the notorious cartelor Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, according to DHS.
The boxer was almost thrown out of the country months ago.
File – Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., to the right of Mexico, talking to his father, legendary boxer Julio Cesar Chavez, Left, at a news conference to promote his upcoming middleweight championship boxing match with Sergio Martinez, from Argentina, in Los Angeles, July 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)
According to DHS, US citizenship and immigration services in December 2024 had a reference to ICE that Chávez was an “irregular threat of public security,” but Chavez was allowed to reintroduce the country on January 4, 2025, after the registrations indicated that former President Joe Biden’s administration had not made him an immigration enforcement.
Afterwards, Biden allowed Chavez to reintroduce the country and paroled him into the country in the San Ysidro gate, per. DHS.
