Julio Cesar Chavez Jr, who just completed a nine-month suspension ordered by the Nevada State Athletic Commission for testing positive for marijuana after his loss to Sergio Martinez in September 2012, is scheduled to take on Brian Vera on September 7 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
His training camp is not the same anymore though. Julio Cesar Chavez Jr has made the decision to split from Freddie Roach and his legendary father as well. Chavez Jr. claims his father keeps interfering with his training.
“My father will no longer be in my corner. We’ve agreed to see each other only once a week because it is very difficult to keep that type of relationship and be a family at the same time. Therefore he will no longer be in my camps with me. He will never stop being my father but this is something that we feel will be a positive thing to move my career forward,” Chavez Jr told TeleMex.
You may say Chavez Jr is a dumb ass for not having his father, the Mexican legend, the boxing hall of famer, in his training camp, I agree he’s a dumb ass but I have to agree with Chavez Jr. Though Chavez Sr has more than 107 fights under his resume and probably has more experience that most boxing trainers but Chavez Sr. is not the same anymore..
It’s like when you’re playing a game and the one who lost is telling you what to do next even though you’re still in the game. Obviously they lost for a reason.
For years Chavez Sr. underwent rehab for alcohol and drug abuse and that plays a big role in the way you see things now. If you recall the last HBO 24/7 there was tensions between the two.
“I saw everything. I saw how my father drank and took drugs every day,” Chavez Jr. told Nación ESPN. “I always told myself, ‘I can’t be like my father.’ It was hard. It affected me psychologically. People don’t understand what the image of being Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. has done to me.”
“My father hurt me in a lot of ways when he was drinking and using drugs. He would fight with people, he would act for me and speak for me. He made people think that he was in control of me as a person. I respect my father, he’s the best fighter from Mexico and from the world, he’s my idol, but he needs to understand that it’s my life, my career, and whether I win or lose, train or don’t train…they’re my decisions.”