Cesar Chavez Jr Jailed After Us Deportation

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Julio Cesar Chavez Jr earlier his conflict pinch Jake Paul successful June 2025Image source, Getty Images

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Julio Cesar Chavez Jr's past 2 fights person been against ex-UFC combatant Uriah Hall and influencer-turned-boxer Jake Paul

Ben Collins

BBC Sport journalist

Former world champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr has been jailed successful his autochthonal Mexico aft his apprehension successful nan United States successful July.

The Mexican boxer was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers successful Studio City, Los Angeles, 5 days aft fighting Jake Paul successful adjacent Anaheim.

The 39-year-old has now entered a situation successful nan bluish Mexico authorities of Sonora, nan country's nationalist apprehension registry showed connected Tuesday.

It said that nan boxer was arrested astatine a checkpoint successful nan separator metropolis of Nogales connected Tuesday greeting and transferred to a national institution successful Sonora's superior of Hermosillo.

Mexico's president Claudia Sheinbaum said successful her regular news convention that he had been deported.

She antecedently said location was a warrant for his apprehension for charges of arms trafficking and organised crime, and that prosecutors were moving connected nan case.

The Mexican lawyer general's agency declined to comment.

Chavez Jr, who held nan WBC middleweight title from 2011 to 2012, is nan boy of three-weight world champion Julio Cesar Chavez.

Mexican prosecutors allege he acted arsenic a henchman for nan powerful Sinaloa cartel, which Washington designated a overseas violent organisation earlier this year.

Chavez Jr's lawyer and family person rejected nan accusations.

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