By Miguel Rivera

According to Hall of Fame trainer Ignacio "Nacho" Beristain, the coach of Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., his fighter received a massage prior to this past Saturday's contest with Saul "Canelo" Alvarez.

Chavez Jr. squeezed down to a catch-weight of 164.5-pounds to finally face Canelo at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.

He appeared to have very little in the tank and instead took a beating for twelve rounds, on the path to losing a one-sided twelve round decision.

There were many observers who felt Chavez Jr. had killed his body to make the contract weight - in order to avoid a potential penalty of $1 million per pound. Chavez had not fought at that low of a weight limit since September 2012.

In the opinion of Nacho, the issue was not weight - it was a massage received prior to the fight and Chavez's inability to follow the game plan in the contest.

"The weight was not a factor that determined the performance of this guy... they are wrong about that, because the weight was good, and if something happened extra there - it could be that he was given a massage, which is something that is forbidden [prior to a fight]. He received a massage two hours before the fight, they relaxed him," Nacho told Aristegui News.

"I did not understand [what happened], because he was perfectly fine, he was sleeping almost three or four hours before the fight , he was relaxed, he was happy, but they said that some individual who always walks with him, who seems to be a physical trainer, gave him a massage... as far as I know."

It was the first fight where Chavez Jr. used Nacho in his corner. He plans to continue the relationship with Nacho, but this time at the super middleweight limit of 168-pounds.