By Miguel Rivera

Hall of Fame Nacho Beristain does not want to get into war of words with his own fighter or contradict his statements, but the veteran coach is not in agreement with some of the recent statements that were made by Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. - who is trying to justify his very poor performance last Saturday against country rival Canelo Alvarez.

Chavez Jr. was dominated for twelve rounds and showcased very little offense in the fight, and all three of the official judges at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas scored every round for Canelo.

The contest took place at a catch-weight of 164.5-pounds, which was the lowest weight for Chavez Jr. since 2012.

According to Chavez Jr., he nearly killed himself by barely eating much of anything for two weeks. He easily made the contract weight, coming in at 164-pounds.

"I can be criticized and rightly so, but nobody knows the superhuman effort I made to make the weight," said Chavez Jr. to ESPN Deportes. "I have taken the criticisms in a good way and I will continue to work hard. In a few weeks I will go to Mexico to train with Nacho Beristáin."

"Nobody thought that I make the weight, but that caused me not to have energy. In the last two weeks I ate very little, and last week I ate almost nothing. My mind wanted [to fight] but my body did not respond to me. I didn't have the strength. The massage [I received before the fight], I don't think that was the cause of my pathetic showing... in the ring that night was undoubtedly the worst performance of my career."

"I have fallen but I'm going to get up. I made the weight and that caused me an emotional unbalance generated by the same decompensation. Just imagine, it was the biggest fine in history for a single pound [over the limit]."

"When you get into the ring you do not go in there to lose. I also feel bad, worse than everyone, worse than my fans, but I made a superhuman effort [to get down in the weight] - that's why Óscar de la Hoya and Canelo asked me to get down to that weight. They knew that I was going to kill myself. I did not want to fail but it didn't work for me."

But Nacho does not agree with the comments being made by his fighter.

"I thought that at some point Julio was going to come out to throw punches and it did not happen. He says he did not eat, I saw him eating egg whites, he looked good... I don't want to contradict him... he says he didn't feel good, but I didn't have much trouble getting him down to the weight," Nacho said. "It's a difficult defeat to digest, to understand why something did not work."