Alvarez breaks fellow champion's jaw

The Boxing Tribune
Paul Magno

Oct 26, 2011

Tuesday in Guadalajara, Mexico, WBC junior middleweight champ Saul Alvarez and 108-pound titlist Ulises Solis were involved in an altercation that left the smaller fighter with a broken jaw and a cracked tooth.

According to Solis, the incident began while both fighters were doing their road work and Alvarez confronted him.

“I ran into Alvarez after training and I moved to the side to let him pass,” Solis told El Universal newspaper, “but he ran into me. He asked me, ‘Why are you messing with my woman?’ I told him that I don’t even know her and all of a sudden he hit me with a left and right cross that fractured my jaw. I fell back and he hit me with two more punches — to the temple and the chest.”

Solis’ brother ran to help and took the fighter to the hospital for evaluation and then to the local authorities to file a complaint.

The fighter is set to undergo surgery shortly and will miss his scheduled title defense in December.

Alvarez, in a statement made to the media shortly after the incident, denied being the aggressor and indicated that it was actually his brother who had attacked the junior flyweight star.