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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 13 February 2025. Mexican boxer (born 1962) For his son, who is also a boxer, see Julio César Chávez Jr. For the Paraguayan historian, see Julio César Chaves. This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material ...
Chavez won the fight by a controversial TKO of Taylor only two seconds before the end of the twelfth and last round, while he was behind on the score cards. The fight would later be named The Ring magazine's Fight of the Year for 1990, and later the "Fight of the Decade" for the 1990s.
Speaking after the bout Norris said "I'm the best fighter in the world pound for pound. Chavez is not. I really didn't think he needed to stay around too long. He made a lot of noise." He also said that the fight should have gone beyond the 1st round saying "Richard Steele should have stopped it in the 1st round." [14]
Though Chavez was able to continue, he was unable to get any momentum and was dominated by De La Hoya for the remainder of the fight. In round four, as Chavez was finally mounting some offense, De La Hoya took control of the latter stages of the round and brutalized Chavez with a series of hard combinations and broke Chavez' nose with a left hook.
Chavez wins via 10th-round technical knockout Julio César Chávez vs. Tony Lopez was a professional boxing match contested on December 10, 1994, for the WBC super lightweight title. [ 1 ] The fight was the featured bout on a boxing card promoted by Don King dubbed Noches de Campeones (Night of Champions in Spanish).
On March 17, 1990, WBC super lightweight champion Julio César Chávez met IBF super lightweight champion Meldrick Taylor in a unification bout. In one of the most memorable and controversial fights of the 1990s, Chávez, trailing on the scorecards, would score a last-second knockout victory after referee Richard Steele stopped the fight despite Taylor having risen from the knockdown and there ...
A fight between Julio César Chávez and Héctor Camacho, two of the top fighters in the super lightweight division, had been discussed as early as 1989, though problems within Camacho's management team prevented HBO, who then held Chávez's television rights, from making the fight with then-HBO sports head Seth Abraham stating "While I'd love to do the fight, I'm not sure who to make the deal ...
Immediately following Pernell Whitaker's victory over Buddy McGirt on March 6, 1993, it was announced that a deal had been reached that would see Whitaker face reigning WBC light welterweight champion Julio César Chávez. [2]