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Mexican boxer Julio César Chávez Jr. was arrested by ICE on Thursday for deportation. The arrest occurred a few days after Chávez’s defeat against YouTuber Jake Paul in Anaheim, California, on the last weekend of June.
Chavez was arrested for overcoming his visa and going to bed in a green card application. It was being processed for accelerated elimination, according to US authorities.
The news of the arrest established the combat community in a frenzy, with Chávez Jr. suddenly emerging as a prominent figure in the ongoing deportation saga.
Chávez Jr. has an extensive and presumed criminal history alleged links with a drug sign, according to DHS
According to the Department of National Security, Chávez Jr. has been accused of several crimes while in the United States
On January 22, 2012, HighwaAay patrol of California arrested Chavez and accused him of Dui 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 for Chávez, for the crime of organized crime in order to commit 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.
Julio Cesar Chávez Jr. Fight Jake Paul in the Honda Center. (Gary A. Vasquez-Imagn images)
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.
Meanwhile, the president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, said Friday that Mexico had not previously arrested the Chávez Jr. boxer in an arrest warrant of 2023, because it had been mainly in the United States at that time.
“The hope is to be deported and comply with the sentence in Mexico,” Sheinbaum said during his daily news conference on Friday, referring to charges that Chavez faces for weapons and drug trafficking.
The Biden administration let Chávez Jr. enter the country just before the former president left office, according to DHS
The boxer was almost expelled from the country months ago.
According to the DHS, in December 2024, American citizenship and immigration services had made an ice reference that Chavez was a “atrocious public security threat”, but Chávez was allowed to re -enter the country on January 4, 2025 after the records indicated that the Biden administration had not made him a priority priority of immigration application.
After the Biden administration allowed Chávez to re -enter the country and on probation to the country in the San Ysidro entrance port, according to DHS.
Chávez Jr. is the son of a famous boxer, who shares problems with substance abuse
Chávez Jr.’s father, Julio César Chávez Mr., is a world champion at various times in three different weight divisions. According to the reports, Chávez Mr. grew in an abandoned rail car with his 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 member of the Boxing International Hall of Fame.
During the childhood of Chávez Jr., his father regularly took him to him and his brother to the ring before the fights.
However, Chávez Jr. has also published multiple videos about Tiktok in which he accuses his father of abuse.
Chávez Mr. fought with drugs, especially alcohol and cocaine.
“At first I [could] Control it, but I only needed more alcohol and more cocaine and more and more, “said Chávez Mr. A NPR in a 2015 interview.” It was then that the problems really began. It was then that the failures began, the defeats. “
Chávez Jr. also developed a drug habit.
Julio César Chávez Jr. enters the right before fighting Jake Paul in the Honda Center on June 28, 2025. (Gary A. Vasquez-Imagn images)
In 2009, Chávez Jr. gave positive for furosemide, a diuretic that can be used to cut weight or as a mask agent for other substances. This resulted in a suspension and a fine. In 2012, after losing to Sergio Martínez, he tested positive for marijuana. He received a fine and a nine -month suspension. In 2017, he tested for marijuana before a fight with Canelo Álvarez.
Then, in 2020, Chávez Jr. was suspended indefinitely for refusing to take a drug test.
When Chávez Jr. was arrested for firearms charges in January 2024, he was then released with a bail of $ 50,000 with the condition of going to a residential drug treatment center.
Chávez Jr. built a successful boxing race before becoming one of Paul’s most legitimate opponents
Jake Paul moves for a blow against Julio Cesar Chávez Jr. in the Honda Center. (Vásquez-Imagn images)
Chávez Jr. won his first title in 2009 in the Super Pen Latin Weight Division of the World Boxing Council. The following year he won the Silver Silver’s medium -sized vacant crown, defeating John Duddy for a unanimous decision.
In June 2011, Chávez Jr. won his greatest victory at that time, defeating Sebastian Zbik by majority decision in the medium weight title of the WBC in Los Angeles.
Then he successfully defended the crown three times against Peter Manfredo Jr., Marco Antonio Rubio and Andy Lee.
Chávez Jr. made his payment debut by vision in 2012 against Sergio “Maravilla” Martínez de Argentina, who is 11 years older than Chavez Jr., but proved to be his first loss. Martínez defeated Chavez for a unanimous decision.
After the fight, Chávez was suspended for nine months and fined $ 900,000 for the Athletic Commission of the Nevada State after positive for marijuana.
In 2017, Chávez Jr. fought against Canelo Álvarez in Las Vegas in his second paid fight for vision, but also lost that unanimous decision.
He stopped fighting for two years, and then in 2019 he lost to former medium -sized champion Daniel Jacobs in Las Vegas. Chávez Jr. then fought again in Mexico, including a defeat against former Mixed Martial Arts Champion Anderson Silva by decision divided in 2021.
After a three -year break of the ring, in which Chávez Jr. was dealing with his legal and substance problems, he returned last July, surpassing Uriah Hall in Tampa, Florida.
Then came his long -awaited game with Jake Paul in Anaheim last weekend, where the YouTuber won by a unanimous decision to win an official Cruise weight ranking of the AMB.
And then, after the news of the Mexican arrest on Thursday, Paul took X to publish an American flag emoji.
