Editor’s note: This article was originally published on DAZN.com.
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Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. lost to Mario Cazares by a sixth-round technical decision Friday in Mexico, his third loss in his last four outings.
The fight was stopped and went to the cards because of a cut above Chavez’s left eye, the result of an accidental headbutt. Cazares won by scores of 57-56, 57-56 and 59-54.
Chavez, being outworked by Cazares, looked to want to be anywhere but the boxing ring. However, the son of Julio Cesar Chavez has a different version of how things went down. He claims referee Fernando Renteria told him that Cazares would be disqualified for the head butt and said nothing about going to the cards.
“He told me that he was going to stop it because they were going to disqualify [Cazares],” Chavez Jr. said via Fight Hub TV. “I told him to give me a chance to fight, and then they come out with the decision.
“If they had told me that the fight was going to a decision, because of the head clash, I would have continued fighting, but the referee told me that they were going to disqualify him.”
Chavez also hopes the decision debunks the myth he gets preferential treatment from the judges because of his last name.
“What benefit is there to be me? ” he said. “None, like right there, they could have helped me with the decision because the fight was even, and they didn’t. It is good that [the critics] realize that I have never benefited with decisions.
“They have always said [that], and that is a lie.”
Julio Cesar Chavez Sr. took on Jorge Arce in an entertaining exhibition on the card.
