Unbeaten Mexican middleweight Julio Cesar Chavez Jnr. has tested positive for the banned diuretic Furosemide and faces a nine-month suspension and 100,000-dollar fine, ESPN reported Saturday. The son of Mexican boxing icon Chavez Snr, tested positive in his 10-round victory over Troy Rowland on November 14, Nevada State Athletic Commission executive director Keith Kizer said Saturday. The bout was ...

No one likes a drive-by psychoanalyst, so it figures Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. would scoff at Matt Vanda’s dime-store diagnosis after their fight Saturday at Mandalay Bay. This was the night, Vanda pronounced after losing the 10-round pay-per-view headliner, that Chavez completed his transformation from “just a kid” to being “his own man.” “He grew up in the ring ...

FIGHT FACTS Main event: Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (37-0-1, 29 KOs) vs. Matt Vanda (39-7, 22 KOs), 10 rounds, super welterweights Co-features: Nonito Donaire (19-1, 12 KOs) vs. Moruti Mthalane (22-1, 15 KOs), 12 rounds, IBF flyweight world championship; Jorge Arce (50-4-1, 38 KOs) vs. Isidro Garcia (25-5-2, 8 KOs), 12 rounds, WBA super flyweight interim championship; Lamont Peterson (25-0 ...