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22 Disc set!
Julio Cesar Chavez versus the following fighters:
Sandoval
Mario Martinez
Ruben Castillo
Roger Mayweather I
Dwight Pratchett
Faustino Barrios
Rocky Lockridge
Juan LaPorte
Tomas DaCruz
Danilo Cabrera
Edwin Rosario
Nicky Perez
Rodolpho Aguilar
Yogi Buchanan
Jose Luis Ramirez
Roger Mayweather II
Kenny Vice
Rodolfo Batta
Sammy Fuentes
Alberto Cortes
Meldrick Taylor I
Russell Mosley
Jaime "Rocky" Balboa
Kyung Duk Ahn
John Duplessis
Tommy Small
Lonnie Smith
Jorge Melian
Ignacio Pedromo
Angel Hernandez
Frankie Mitchell
Hector Camacho
Bruce Pearson
Marty Jakubowski I
Greg Haugen
Silvio Rojas
Terrence Alli
Pernell Whitaker
Mike Powell
Andy Holligan
Frankie Randall I
Frankie Randall II
Meldrick Taylor II
Tony Lopez
Giovanni Parisi
David Kamau
Scott Walker
Oscar De La Hoya I
Joey Gamache
Tony Martin
Larry Lacoursiere
Miguel Angel Gonzalez
Ken Sigurani
Oscar De La Hoya II
Verdell Smith
Marty Jakubowski II
Willy Wise I
Buck Smith
Kostya Tszyu
Terry Thomas
Frankie Randall III
Ivan Robinson
22 Disc set!
Julio Cesar Chavez versus the following fighters:
Sandoval
Mario Martinez
Ruben Castillo
Roger Mayweather I
Dwight Pratchett
Faustino Barrios
Rocky Lockridge
Juan LaPorte
Tomas DaCruz
Danilo Cabrera
Edwin Rosario
Nicky Perez
Rodolpho Aguilar
Yogi Buchanan
Jose Luis Ramirez
Roger Mayweather II
Kenny Vice
Rodolfo Batta
Sammy Fuentes
Alberto Cortes
Meldrick Taylor I
Russell Mosley
Jaime "Rocky" Balboa
Kyung Duk Ahn
John Duplessis
Tommy Small
Lonnie Smith
Jorge Melian
Ignacio Pedromo
Angel Hernandez
Frankie Mitchell
Hector Camacho
Bruce Pearson
Marty Jakubowski I
Greg Haugen
Silvio Rojas
Terrence Alli
Pernell Whitaker
Mike Powell
Andy Holligan
Frankie Randall I
Frankie Randall II
Meldrick Taylor II
Tony Lopez
Giovanni Parisi
David Kamau
Scott Walker
Oscar De La Hoya I
Joey Gamache
Tony Martin
Larry Lacoursiere
Miguel Angel Gonzalez
Ken Sigurani
Oscar De La Hoya II
Verdell Smith
Marty Jakubowski II
Willy Wise I
Buck Smith
Kostya Tszyu
Terry Thomas
Frankie Randall III
Ivan Robinson
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Career DVD Set (22 DVDS)
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Biography
Julio Cesar Chavez Gonzalez was born on July 12, 1962 in Ciudad Obregon, Mexico. His father, Rodolfo Chavez, worked for
the railroad, and Julio grew up in an abandoned railroad car with his five sisters and four brothers. He began boxing as an
amateur at the age of sixteen.
Early career and first title
In his 12th fight, on March 4, 1981, Chávez faced Miguel Ruiz in Culiacan. At the end of the first round, Chavez landed a blow
that knocked out Ruiz. Delivered as the bell sounded, the blow was ruled a disqualification in the ring and Ruiz was declared the
winner. The next day, however, after further review, the Mexican boxing commission reversed the result and proclaimed
Chávez the winner. Chávez's manager, Ramón Felix, was a member of that commission.
Chávez won his first championship, the vacant WBC super featherweight title, on September 13, 1984, by knocking out fellow
Mexican Mario "Azabache" Martínez at the Grand Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles, California. Martínez had been the
betting favorite in the bout.
On July 7, 1985, Chavez defeated future champion Roger Mayweather via a second round knock out. On August 3, 1986,
Chavez defeated former WBA and future IBF Super Featherweight champion Rocky Lockridge. In his next bout, he defeated
former champion Juan Laporte. He successfully defended his WBC Super Featherweight title a total of ten times.
On December 21, 1987, Chávez moved up to the lightweight division and brutally defeated Edwin Rosario (Puerto Rican).
Angered by how Rosario had insulted the Mexican people before the match, Chávez gave him a vicious beating and won the
title with an 11th round technical knockout (TKO) to win the WBA lightweight championship. In 1988, he successfully
defended his title against former two-time champion Rafael Limon. Later that year, he unified the WBA and WBC belts by a
technical decision win over José Luis Ramírez. An accidental head-butt opened a cut on Ramírez's forehead and the doctor
halted the fight, sending the decision to the judges' scorecards at that point in the fight. Chávez, ahead on all scorecards, was
declared the winner.
Stepping up to super-lightweight and Meldrick Taylor controversy
Chavez vacated his WBA and WBC lightweight titles in order to move up to the super lightweight division. In his next bout, he
won the WBC super lightweight title by knocking out Roger Mayweather for a second time. In 1989, Chávez defeated future
champion Sammy Fuentes and a month later, he handed Alberto de las Mercedes Cortes (44-0) his first career loss.
In March 17, 1990, he faced Meldrick Taylor (see Chavez versus Taylor), the IBF Junior Welterweight champion, in a title
unification fight. While Taylor won the early rounds, Chávez rallied in the later rounds, scoring a knockdown with 16 seconds
remaining in the final round. Although Taylor rose at the referee's count of six, he did not respond coherently to referee Richard
Steele's questions, continued to hold the ropes all along, and Steele stopped the fight with only two seconds remaining. Many
boxing fans and members of the media were outraged that Steele would stop a match that Taylor was winning with only two
seconds left, while others felt that Steele was justified in stopping the fight given Taylor's condition and the fact that he was
unable to respond to Steele before the conclusion of the match. Steele defended his decision by saying that his concern is
protecting a fighter, regardless of how much time is left in the round or the fight. As Steele put it, "I stopped it because Meldrick
had took a lot of good shots, a lot of hard shots, and it was time for it to stop. You know, I'm not the timekeeper, and I don't
care about the time. When I see a man that has had enough, I'm stopping the fight."[2] Ring Magazine named it the "Fight of the
Year" for 1990, and later the "Fight of the Decade" for the 1990s. While many hoped for an immediate rematch, Taylor moved
up in weight in his next bout and the fighters did not meet again until 1994 when Chávez dominated and then knocked out
Taylor, whose skills had significantly diminished in the ensuing years.
Chávez vs. Haugen attracts 136,000+
After unifying the titles, Chávez engaged in a busy series of title defenses and non-title fights, which included wins over former
champion Lonnie Smith and rival Hector Camacho. His 1993 fight with Greg Haugen featured trash talk from Haugen, who
derided Chavez's 82-fight unbeaten streak as consisting mostly of "Tijuana taxi drivers that my mother could have knocked out"
and insisting that "There aren't 130,000 Mexicans who can afford tickets" to see the fight in Estadio Azteca. Haugen was
proven wrong on both counts: 136,274 showed up to set a record for fight attendance, and they watched Chávez drop Haugen
quickly and then back off with the apparent intention of punishing him for his prefight remarks. However, the referee had seen
enough by the fifth round and stopped it for a TKO victory for Chávez. After the fight, Chávez asked Haugen about his
comment about the Tijuana taxi drivers, and Haugen sportingly responded, "They must have been tough taxi drivers."
Draw with Whitaker and first career loss
After eleven successful title defenses, Chávez moved up one more weight division to challenge Pernell Whitaker for his WBC
welterweight title in September 1993; Chavez being the stalker and Whitaker being the runner. Throughout the fight Chavez
was soundly outboxed by the slicker Whitaker. The result of the fight was a controversial draw, as many considered Whitaker
to have easily boxed himself to a points victory. Sports Illustrated featured a cover entitled "Robbed" after the conclusion of this
fight [3] and believed that Whitaker had won 9 of the 12 rounds in the fight.[4] There was no rematch.
Chávez faced Frankie Randall in January 1994, in a fight that most expected him to win easily. Instead, Randall knocked him
down for the first time in his career and went on to win a split decision. Chávez blamed his loss on referee Richard Steele, who
deducted two points from Chávez for low blows, which ultimately made the difference on the scorecards. After the fight it was
discovered that both Frankie randels ribs were broken and speculation arose that he was on steroids.
The WBC ordered an immediate rematch and Chávez regained the title on a split technical decision in May, 1994. The fight
was fiercely contested when a clash of heads opened a large cut over Chávez's brow in the seventh round. Chavez came back
strong and showed he was the better boxer, after the head cut, the referee called for the doctor who then instructed for the fight
to be stopped. Under WBC rules, Randall was deducted one point, and that gave Chávez the technical victory on the score
cards. The two would face one another in a rubber match ten years later in which Julio César Chávez would easily win.
In 1994, Chavez then faced Meldrick Taylor in a rematch, 4 years after their historic first fight. Taylor was determined to get
revenge on Chavez, and to his surprise Julio Cesar Chavez had become far greater than Taylor expected. Chavez defeated him
via an 8th round knockout that sent Taylor from one side of the ring to the other. In his next bout, Chavez defeated former
three-time champion Tony Lopez. In 1995, he defeated former lightweight and future super lightweight champion Giovanni
Parisi.
De La Hoya vs. Chávez I & II
Chávez continued to defend his WBC super lightweight title against unheralded opposition until he faced Oscar de la Hoya in
1996. A large gash appeared over the right eye of Chávez within the first minute of the first round, leading many to assume what
Chávez later confirmed--that the cut occurred earlier in training and was reopened in the bout. Heavy blood flow prompted the
referee to stop the fight in the fourth round. Until their eventual rematch in 1998, Chavez would always state that de la Hoya
had not defeated him, but that a gash that he had suffered in training was the real cause of the stoppage of the fight. In his next
bout, Chavez defeated former champion Joey Gamache.
A year after de la Hoya moved up to welterweight in 1997, Chávez fought Miguel Angel Gonzalez for the vacant WBC super
lightweight title. That fight ended in a draw. He challenged for a title on two other occasions, coming up short in both.
In a rematch with de la Hoya for the WBC welterweight belt in September 1998, de la Hoya decided not to use his speed and
reach advantages, and instead chose to punish Chávez repeatedly to the head and the body in an effort to force a stoppage that
could not be disputed. After the eighth round, video shows Chávez telling his corner he couldn't continue because of severe
laceration on his lip and the fight was stopped.
Retirement and farewell fights
After a 2001 victory over Terry Thomas in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Chávez retired. However, on November 24, 2003, he
came out of retirement to avenge his earlier loss to Willy Wise, knocking Wise out in two rounds in Tijuana, Mexico.
In April 2004, Chávez went back into the ring, for what he again claimed would be his last appearance. In that fight, nicknamed
Adiós, México, Gracias (Good-bye, Mexico, Thank you), he beat his former conqueror, Frankie Randall, by a ten round
decision.
On May 28, 2005, Chávez once again stepped into a boxing ring, outpointing Ivan Robinson in ten rounds at the Staples
Center. On September 17, 2005, at the U.S. Airways Center in Phoenix, Arizona, Chávez suffered a TKO loss to little-known
Grover Wiley, retiring in his corner before the start of the 5th round, apparently due to an injury to his right hand. After the bout,
Chávez told his promoter, Bob Arum, that this time he was definitely retiring from boxing.
Credentials
Chávez finally retired with a record of 108 wins, 6 losses and 2 draws, with 87 knockouts, and was one of the best boxers of
all time. He holds records for most successful defenses of world titles (27) and most title fights (37). ESPN recently ranked him
as the 24th greatest boxer in history. His son, Julio Jr., is also a professional boxer.
Career in review
Considered one of the greatest fighters in history, Chávez won six world titles in three weight divisions: WBC Super
Featherweight (1984), WBA Lightweight (1987), WBC Lightweight (1988), WBC Super Lightweight (1989), IBF Light
Welterweight (1990), and WBC Super Lightweight (1994). Chávez also went undefeated for 93 bouts before his first
retirement with a record of 104-5-2 (80 knockouts). World champions whom Chávez defeated include Jose Luis Ramírez,
Rafael Limon, Rocky Lockridge, Meldrick Taylor, Roger Mayweather, Lonnie Smith, Sammy Fuentes, Héctor "Macho"
Camacho, Juan Laporte, Edwin Rosario, Greg Haugen, Tony López, Giovanni Parisi, Joey Gamache, and Frankie Randall,
who had taken the WBC light welterweight belt from Chávez just four months earlier. He lost to only two champions: Oscar De
La Hoya and Kostya Tszyu. He was held to a draw by two others: Pernell Whitaker and Miguel Angel Gonzalez.
In 2002, Ring Magazine ranked Chávez as the 18th greatest fighter of the last 80 years. He was also ranked #50 on Ring
Magazine's list of 100 greatest punchers of all time.
Outside the ring
Chávez wore a black ribbon on the night of September 21, 1985, during his world title defense against Dwight Pratchett, to
honor all his countrymen and women who fell during the Mexico City earthquake two days previously.
He had a boxing videogame with his brand for the Super Nintendo.
Ramón Ayala, a norteño accordionist, has also performed and recorded an honorary song about Julio César Chávez, titled
"Julio César Chávez."
Chávez's relationship with boxing promoter Don King was controversial. During a short period during the 1990s, Chávez tried
to break his ties to King and sign with Bob Arum.
After being threatened by a gang that his son would be kidnapped, Chávez became one of the first people to denounce the
kidnappings of famous people's relatives in Mexico during the middle and late 1990s.
A documentary about his life, titled JC Chávez, was premiered at the 2007 edition of the Tribeca Film Festival in New York
City. It was directed by young Mexican actor Diego Luna.
Julio Cesar Chavez Gonzalez was born on July 12, 1962 in Ciudad Obregon, Mexico. His father, Rodolfo Chavez, worked for
the railroad, and Julio grew up in an abandoned railroad car with his five sisters and four brothers. He began boxing as an
amateur at the age of sixteen.
Early career and first title
In his 12th fight, on March 4, 1981, Chávez faced Miguel Ruiz in Culiacan. At the end of the first round, Chavez landed a blow
that knocked out Ruiz. Delivered as the bell sounded, the blow was ruled a disqualification in the ring and Ruiz was declared the
winner. The next day, however, after further review, the Mexican boxing commission reversed the result and proclaimed
Chávez the winner. Chávez's manager, Ramón Felix, was a member of that commission.
Chávez won his first championship, the vacant WBC super featherweight title, on September 13, 1984, by knocking out fellow
Mexican Mario "Azabache" Martínez at the Grand Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles, California. Martínez had been the
betting favorite in the bout.
On July 7, 1985, Chavez defeated future champion Roger Mayweather via a second round knock out. On August 3, 1986,
Chavez defeated former WBA and future IBF Super Featherweight champion Rocky Lockridge. In his next bout, he defeated
former champion Juan Laporte. He successfully defended his WBC Super Featherweight title a total of ten times.
On December 21, 1987, Chávez moved up to the lightweight division and brutally defeated Edwin Rosario (Puerto Rican).
Angered by how Rosario had insulted the Mexican people before the match, Chávez gave him a vicious beating and won the
title with an 11th round technical knockout (TKO) to win the WBA lightweight championship. In 1988, he successfully
defended his title against former two-time champion Rafael Limon. Later that year, he unified the WBA and WBC belts by a
technical decision win over José Luis Ramírez. An accidental head-butt opened a cut on Ramírez's forehead and the doctor
halted the fight, sending the decision to the judges' scorecards at that point in the fight. Chávez, ahead on all scorecards, was
declared the winner.
Stepping up to super-lightweight and Meldrick Taylor controversy
Chavez vacated his WBA and WBC lightweight titles in order to move up to the super lightweight division. In his next bout, he
won the WBC super lightweight title by knocking out Roger Mayweather for a second time. In 1989, Chávez defeated future
champion Sammy Fuentes and a month later, he handed Alberto de las Mercedes Cortes (44-0) his first career loss.
In March 17, 1990, he faced Meldrick Taylor (see Chavez versus Taylor), the IBF Junior Welterweight champion, in a title
unification fight. While Taylor won the early rounds, Chávez rallied in the later rounds, scoring a knockdown with 16 seconds
remaining in the final round. Although Taylor rose at the referee's count of six, he did not respond coherently to referee Richard
Steele's questions, continued to hold the ropes all along, and Steele stopped the fight with only two seconds remaining. Many
boxing fans and members of the media were outraged that Steele would stop a match that Taylor was winning with only two
seconds left, while others felt that Steele was justified in stopping the fight given Taylor's condition and the fact that he was
unable to respond to Steele before the conclusion of the match. Steele defended his decision by saying that his concern is
protecting a fighter, regardless of how much time is left in the round or the fight. As Steele put it, "I stopped it because Meldrick
had took a lot of good shots, a lot of hard shots, and it was time for it to stop. You know, I'm not the timekeeper, and I don't
care about the time. When I see a man that has had enough, I'm stopping the fight."[2] Ring Magazine named it the "Fight of the
Year" for 1990, and later the "Fight of the Decade" for the 1990s. While many hoped for an immediate rematch, Taylor moved
up in weight in his next bout and the fighters did not meet again until 1994 when Chávez dominated and then knocked out
Taylor, whose skills had significantly diminished in the ensuing years.
Chávez vs. Haugen attracts 136,000+
After unifying the titles, Chávez engaged in a busy series of title defenses and non-title fights, which included wins over former
champion Lonnie Smith and rival Hector Camacho. His 1993 fight with Greg Haugen featured trash talk from Haugen, who
derided Chavez's 82-fight unbeaten streak as consisting mostly of "Tijuana taxi drivers that my mother could have knocked out"
and insisting that "There aren't 130,000 Mexicans who can afford tickets" to see the fight in Estadio Azteca. Haugen was
proven wrong on both counts: 136,274 showed up to set a record for fight attendance, and they watched Chávez drop Haugen
quickly and then back off with the apparent intention of punishing him for his prefight remarks. However, the referee had seen
enough by the fifth round and stopped it for a TKO victory for Chávez. After the fight, Chávez asked Haugen about his
comment about the Tijuana taxi drivers, and Haugen sportingly responded, "They must have been tough taxi drivers."
Draw with Whitaker and first career loss
After eleven successful title defenses, Chávez moved up one more weight division to challenge Pernell Whitaker for his WBC
welterweight title in September 1993; Chavez being the stalker and Whitaker being the runner. Throughout the fight Chavez
was soundly outboxed by the slicker Whitaker. The result of the fight was a controversial draw, as many considered Whitaker
to have easily boxed himself to a points victory. Sports Illustrated featured a cover entitled "Robbed" after the conclusion of this
fight [3] and believed that Whitaker had won 9 of the 12 rounds in the fight.[4] There was no rematch.
Chávez faced Frankie Randall in January 1994, in a fight that most expected him to win easily. Instead, Randall knocked him
down for the first time in his career and went on to win a split decision. Chávez blamed his loss on referee Richard Steele, who
deducted two points from Chávez for low blows, which ultimately made the difference on the scorecards. After the fight it was
discovered that both Frankie randels ribs were broken and speculation arose that he was on steroids.
The WBC ordered an immediate rematch and Chávez regained the title on a split technical decision in May, 1994. The fight
was fiercely contested when a clash of heads opened a large cut over Chávez's brow in the seventh round. Chavez came back
strong and showed he was the better boxer, after the head cut, the referee called for the doctor who then instructed for the fight
to be stopped. Under WBC rules, Randall was deducted one point, and that gave Chávez the technical victory on the score
cards. The two would face one another in a rubber match ten years later in which Julio César Chávez would easily win.
In 1994, Chavez then faced Meldrick Taylor in a rematch, 4 years after their historic first fight. Taylor was determined to get
revenge on Chavez, and to his surprise Julio Cesar Chavez had become far greater than Taylor expected. Chavez defeated him
via an 8th round knockout that sent Taylor from one side of the ring to the other. In his next bout, Chavez defeated former
three-time champion Tony Lopez. In 1995, he defeated former lightweight and future super lightweight champion Giovanni
Parisi.
De La Hoya vs. Chávez I & II
Chávez continued to defend his WBC super lightweight title against unheralded opposition until he faced Oscar de la Hoya in
1996. A large gash appeared over the right eye of Chávez within the first minute of the first round, leading many to assume what
Chávez later confirmed--that the cut occurred earlier in training and was reopened in the bout. Heavy blood flow prompted the
referee to stop the fight in the fourth round. Until their eventual rematch in 1998, Chavez would always state that de la Hoya
had not defeated him, but that a gash that he had suffered in training was the real cause of the stoppage of the fight. In his next
bout, Chavez defeated former champion Joey Gamache.
A year after de la Hoya moved up to welterweight in 1997, Chávez fought Miguel Angel Gonzalez for the vacant WBC super
lightweight title. That fight ended in a draw. He challenged for a title on two other occasions, coming up short in both.
In a rematch with de la Hoya for the WBC welterweight belt in September 1998, de la Hoya decided not to use his speed and
reach advantages, and instead chose to punish Chávez repeatedly to the head and the body in an effort to force a stoppage that
could not be disputed. After the eighth round, video shows Chávez telling his corner he couldn't continue because of severe
laceration on his lip and the fight was stopped.
Retirement and farewell fights
After a 2001 victory over Terry Thomas in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Chávez retired. However, on November 24, 2003, he
came out of retirement to avenge his earlier loss to Willy Wise, knocking Wise out in two rounds in Tijuana, Mexico.
In April 2004, Chávez went back into the ring, for what he again claimed would be his last appearance. In that fight, nicknamed
Adiós, México, Gracias (Good-bye, Mexico, Thank you), he beat his former conqueror, Frankie Randall, by a ten round
decision.
On May 28, 2005, Chávez once again stepped into a boxing ring, outpointing Ivan Robinson in ten rounds at the Staples
Center. On September 17, 2005, at the U.S. Airways Center in Phoenix, Arizona, Chávez suffered a TKO loss to little-known
Grover Wiley, retiring in his corner before the start of the 5th round, apparently due to an injury to his right hand. After the bout,
Chávez told his promoter, Bob Arum, that this time he was definitely retiring from boxing.
Credentials
Chávez finally retired with a record of 108 wins, 6 losses and 2 draws, with 87 knockouts, and was one of the best boxers of
all time. He holds records for most successful defenses of world titles (27) and most title fights (37). ESPN recently ranked him
as the 24th greatest boxer in history. His son, Julio Jr., is also a professional boxer.
Career in review
Considered one of the greatest fighters in history, Chávez won six world titles in three weight divisions: WBC Super
Featherweight (1984), WBA Lightweight (1987), WBC Lightweight (1988), WBC Super Lightweight (1989), IBF Light
Welterweight (1990), and WBC Super Lightweight (1994). Chávez also went undefeated for 93 bouts before his first
retirement with a record of 104-5-2 (80 knockouts). World champions whom Chávez defeated include Jose Luis Ramírez,
Rafael Limon, Rocky Lockridge, Meldrick Taylor, Roger Mayweather, Lonnie Smith, Sammy Fuentes, Héctor "Macho"
Camacho, Juan Laporte, Edwin Rosario, Greg Haugen, Tony López, Giovanni Parisi, Joey Gamache, and Frankie Randall,
who had taken the WBC light welterweight belt from Chávez just four months earlier. He lost to only two champions: Oscar De
La Hoya and Kostya Tszyu. He was held to a draw by two others: Pernell Whitaker and Miguel Angel Gonzalez.
In 2002, Ring Magazine ranked Chávez as the 18th greatest fighter of the last 80 years. He was also ranked #50 on Ring
Magazine's list of 100 greatest punchers of all time.
Outside the ring
Chávez wore a black ribbon on the night of September 21, 1985, during his world title defense against Dwight Pratchett, to
honor all his countrymen and women who fell during the Mexico City earthquake two days previously.
He had a boxing videogame with his brand for the Super Nintendo.
Ramón Ayala, a norteño accordionist, has also performed and recorded an honorary song about Julio César Chávez, titled
"Julio César Chávez."
Chávez's relationship with boxing promoter Don King was controversial. During a short period during the 1990s, Chávez tried
to break his ties to King and sign with Bob Arum.
After being threatened by a gang that his son would be kidnapped, Chávez became one of the first people to denounce the
kidnappings of famous people's relatives in Mexico during the middle and late 1990s.
A documentary about his life, titled JC Chávez, was premiered at the 2007 edition of the Tribeca Film Festival in New York
City. It was directed by young Mexican actor Diego Luna.