Boxing: Chavez Jr banned for nine months
Chavez tested positive for marijuana.
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.
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.