Champ Denies Signing

Wed., Oct. 18, 1995

Compiled From Wire Services

WBC super lightweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez testified at boxing promoter Don King’s insurance fraud trial that he never signed a contract King allegedly used to get insurance money after a 1991 bout was canceled.

Chavez, the star witness in the trial, said he never signed a contract with his name on it that King allegedly submitted to Lloyd’s of London to recover $350,000 in supposedly non-refundable training expenses.

But he later added, “Sometimes I have signed blank contracts.”

The boxer, speaking through an interpreter, said he spent $50,000 to $60,000 training for the June 28, 1991 fight with Harold Brazier. The contest was canceled after Chavez injured his nose a few weeks before the contest.

King is accused of tricking Lloyd’s into paying $350,000 for training fees he had supposedly paid to Chavez by faking the front page of a contract with Chavez.

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