Julio César Chávez, a legend of Mexican boxing, acknowledged in a recent interview that his son, Julio César Chávez Jr., once agreed to hit someone at the request of members of organized crime in Sinaloa.
The incident, according to the former boxer himself, did not stem from criminal affiliation, but rather from the need to protect his safety in response to a request from members of the Sinaloa Cartel.
In a recent interview with Adela Micha for the La Saga channel, Chávez addressed in detail the events involving his son, who is currently facing legal proceedings on charges brought by the Attorney General’s Office (FGR), which alleges his ties to organized crime and arms trafficking. During the interview, the boxing champion explained that the incident occurred when members of the Sinaloa Cartel, presumably Los Chapitos, ordered his son to assault someone as punishment.
According to the version recounted by Chávez Jr. himself to his father, the demand was non-negotiable, and refusing would have put him in danger: “If you don’t go, they’ll take you. What do you want? For them to kill you? I’d rather be their friend than have those bastards kill me,” the former boxer said, describing the logic that prevails in environments dominated by criminal groups in Culiacán. Chávez Jr. reportedly agreed under pressure and, according to his father, did so in the least harmful way possible: “They told him, ‘If you hit him a few times, we’ll spare his life.’ My son didn’t want to. He said, ‘I’ll hit him once, just once, but you’ll spare his life.’ And he landed a little hook, just like that, gently.”
