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Hell By Baby Steps: Sergio Martinez-Julio César Chávez Jr. Preview
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Closed or secret training sessions—which marked his initial camp—are often the byproduct of injuries, and Chávez reportedly suffers from fallen arches, which may or may not have forced him to miss workout sessions early. Chávez, who had been moving from one place to another like a government witness going from safe house to safe house, has been at loose ends in Mexico and ensconced in a mansion in Hollywood Hills—like a Barrymore on a bender. He finally wound up in Las Vegas a few weeks ago, where he sometimes popped in for a workout at the Top Rank gym, and where he sometimes hit the mitts in swank digs completely at odds with the atmosphere of a professional prizefighter. Indeed, perhaps no boxer in history has moved so much furniture around in preparation for a big fight. Read more from The Cruelest Sport

