Chavez Jr: Why didn’t Rubio take the test?

July Cesar Chavez Jr. and his co-promoter Fernando Beltran have responded to the accusations of Marco Antonio Rubio about no drug test being administered after their fight on Saturday night in San Antonio.

“We are very respectful of the regulations of the sanctioning bodies and commissions and for protection of the fighter,” stated Beltran, “but in the case of Chávez Jr., he didn’t take the doping test because no one from the Texas Athletic Commission asked. At the end of the fight Julio was in his dressing room for 40 minutes after his overwhelming victory getting ready for the post-fight press conference, and after meeting with the media he went to his hotel where he did several interviews in his room with journalists and nobody remembered or asked the anti-doping test,” recalled Beltran, who added that no one from the Texas Commission or the WBC asked either Chavez or Rubio about the test.

“Why didn’t Rubio take the test? Why must only I do it? If they demand it from me, than Rubio should also do it himself,” said Chavez Jr. who also stated Rubio was only trying to justify his clear and overwhelming defeat, and if he had won he would have surely said nothing about the incident.

Beltran stated further that Team Rubio, rather than ask for an anti-doping test on the winner, should worry about the health of their fighter. “I think that we should protest the beating that Chavez Jr. gave to Rubio. They should be checking him medically because there were many power shots that Julio gave to a timid challenger who apparently got frightened by the quality of the champion and he only devoted himself to receiving unnecessary punishment and who knows how he lasted twelve rounds receiving blows without going down.”

Regarding Chavez Jr.’s next fight, Beltran mentioned the possibility that he could reappear in the middle of year against Antonio Margarito, Sergio “Maravilla” Martinez or Andy Lee.

February 7th, 2012

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