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ALEX ARIZA: “EVERYBODY IS TURNING THEIR BACK ON CHAVEZ JR…SOMEBODY HAS TO BE ACCOUNTABLE”

“Everybody is turning their back on Chavez Jr. You can see everybody is washing their hands of the fight, from Bob Arum saying, ‘I got nothing to do with it,’ to him saying, ‘Fernando Beltran, all he’s doing is facilitating the fight.’ I’ve never ever seen something done so unprofessionally…Do you know why they’re turning their back on him? Because this thing has disaster written all over it. No trainer, 4 weeks to get ready for a title shot, and I don’t know anything about this kid Ronald Hearns,” stated strength and conditioning coach Alex Ariza, who was furious about the fact that he was led to believe that Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. would not be fighting on September 17th only to find out that he actually will be, therefore only giving them roughly 4 weeks to prepare for Chavez’s first defense of his WBC middleweight title against Ronald Hearns. You do not want to miss what he had to say!

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