Boxing: Chavez Jr banned for nine months

Chavez tested positive for marijuana.


Reuters March 02, 2013

NEW YORK: Julio Cesar Chavez Jr was banned for nine months and fined $900,000 by the Nevada State Athletic Commission for failing a drug test after his loss to Sergio Martinez last September.

Chavez, 27, tested positive for marijuana after losing a unanimous decision to Argentina’s Martinez in their World Boxing Council middleweight title fight on September 15 in Las Vegas.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 2nd, 2013.

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