Julio Cesar Chavez Sr. and his links to organized crime.

[siablo14]

Lived...... .

Cool. So you probably know a bit about how things really go down.

[Cwatson619]

Chula Vista

Great place to live and work . 6 minites to TJ Boxing has a great expirence in my lofe and i am ok with that . My coworker shared this story with me and i respect my co worker .

[Cwatson619]

Chula vista life is great and only 6 minutes from the TJ ! Boxing soccer and all the festivities n social parties are the best!

[Santa_]

So that's why Martinez showed up at the Cotto fight in a Wheelchair... Chavez Sr. had him kneecapped for slapping Jr around.

[Zaroku]

IN Michoacán parties last for days...
my wife never ever wants to return.
My primo, is handling things....
I’ve been all over Mexico...

Italian mobsters don’t get down like that.
F movies, real chit is unbelievable.

If anyone writes a script, .... they vanish.
That’s real magic..

[Redsox]

I shared the same cell with Julio Cesar Chavez in the Santa Barbara County jail back in 1993. I even played checkers with Julio and I don't think I won a single game. That guy was on a whole other level. I didn't know at the time he was a Mexican boxing champion. He was a very nice person. He was generous and gave me a candy bar on a few occasions. That is a very rare gesture in jails and prisons. He had what appeared to be a close associate that never left his side and took care of his need for companionship and conversation. I was reading the bible a lot at the time and I recall suggesting to him that he many not want to fight for the rest of his life, as there were other less destructive ways to achieve success. What did I know? They told me he was a fighter, but it wasn't until years later while recalling the time in jail, that I found out from my dad, an ex gold glove boxer, 82nd AB Paratrooper in Korea, and NW Cascade Smokejumper, he was a national champion. I must have seemed like such a dumb gringo kid to him. True talk. I was told at the time he was in for manslaughter, but the records must have all been classified pre internet era because I can't find anything online to substantiate my story.

I also recall reading the Santa Barbara News Press one day and seeing another boxer got arrested in the late 1990's for beating up the boyfriend of a stripper who worked at the Spearmint Rhino. What struck me was that the boxer was a champ named Fernando Vargas, but he used a golf club to beat his romantic rival instead of his fists.

Chuck Lidell used to walk around Isla Vista while I was a student at UCSB accepting any and all challengers on the street or wherever. I saw a fight or two on film that some students recorded. Not much of a fight really. More like watching a hot knife slice butter.

The closest to the celebrity boxing scene in Santa Barbara was when I was sucker punched in the side of the head while leaving a nightclub on lower State Street.

you shared a cell with julio cesar chavez and never caught wind that he was julio cesar chavez? in 1993? you should post more often. some people like stupid.