THORN IN THEIR SIDE
JULIO CESAR MARTINEZ was like many of his peers growing up in the Mexico City borough of Azcapotzalco, in that he liked to scrap from an early age. A lot. That doesn’t bode well for one day becoming a doctor or a lawyer, but then again, that was never the goal.
“I didn’t like school that much,” Martinez said through translator Gabe Rivas. “I was good, but they would often kick me out because I liked getting in fights, but thanks to the support of my father, we’re here and we’re achieving things.”
Not doctor or lawyer things, but things in the prize ring that earned him the WBC
