Holes in Boxing Career of Julio Cesar Chavez Sr - Tired of Mexican Legend Crap
 By Pedro Fernandez, Ring Talk, special to Doghouse Boxing (Aug 21, 2012) Doghouse Boxing
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This article written by Ring Talk.com. By Pedro Fernandez, Ring Talk.
Tired of all this Mexican Legend Crap. Of all the articles on Julio Cesar Chavez, nobody, except myself, mentioned the fact that he was disqualified against Miguel Ruiz in Chavez’s hometown of Culiacán, Sinaloa in his 12th fight. Word has it Jose Sulaiman or someone of that ilk got the local commission to change the March 4, 1981 result the very next day. We will fast forward to when Chavez Sr. made his American debut in Sacramento, CA, this in late 1982 when he faced an old sparring partner of mine in Jerry Lewis.
This was on the Bobby Chacon-Bazooka Limon III card at the Memorial Auditorium in California’s capital. It was Julio’s second straight fight and win over the California club fighter from San Jose which resulted in a TKO 6, with the first mismatch going down in October 1982, that being a TKO 5 in Tijuana,
MX. DIDN’T IMPRESS JACK FISKE OR MYSELF
Besides Chacon and the late Eric Martin, who nearly beheaded the then undefeated “Battling” Torres, both men had resounding wins. Still they were pushing the now 34-0 Chavez on us as the next Salvador Sanchez who had passed away a few months earlier. After watching Chavez beat on Lewis like a bongo drum, I can tell you that I walked away unimpressed, as did Hall of Fame writer Jack Fiske and ex-welterweight titleholder Carlos Palomino. Fighting Lewis once was a joke, fighting him twice in succession was a travesty. ...
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