Boxing: Jake Paul vs Chavez Jr: Start time, fight card and how to watch

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Seven months aft his blockbuster combat against 58-year-old erstwhile heavyweight champion Mike Tyson, YouTube personage boxer Jake Paul volition instrumentality to the ringing to look disconnected against different erstwhile satellite champ, Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.

Chavez Jr, 39, is simply a erstwhile World Boxing Council (WBC) middleweight champion who hasn’t held a large boxing rubric successful 13 years and has fought conscionable erstwhile successful the past 3 and a fractional years. He’s besides had immoderate well-documented idiosyncratic problems implicit the past fewer years.

Here’s everything you request to cognize astir the Paul-Chavez bout:

What is the day and commencement clip for the Paul-Chavez fight?

The combat nighttime is connected Saturday, June 28, with six undercard bouts earlier the main fight.

The ringing locomotion for Paul-Chavez Jr is acceptable for 8pm Pacific Standard Time (PST) connected Saturday (03:00 GMT connected Sunday) and the combat volition statesman soon thereafter.

Where is Paul-Chavez being held?

The Honda Center successful Anaheim, California, is the venue for the fight.

It has a seating capableness of astir 7,000 for boxing events.

Wasn’t Paul expected to combat Canelo Alvarez?

In February, Paul claimed Canelo Alvarez “ducked” a combat with him to motion a lucrative four-fight woody with Turki Alalshikh’s Riyadh Season, based retired of Saudi Arabia.

In a video posted to his societal media account, Paul showed what helium said was a declaration signed by himself and Alvarez for a combat to beryllium held successful Las Vegas connected May 3.

“The information is, you (Alvarez) could beryllium bought,” Paul said astatine the time. “You’re a money-hungry squirrel chasing your adjacent nut. The information is, these sports-washing, shady characters are paying you hundreds of millions of dollars to halt our combat from happening due to the fact that they couldn’t fathom the information that they can’t make a bigger combat than maine and you.”

What problems has Chavez Jr had since becoming WBC satellite champion?

Chavez Jr, who past held a large boxing satellite rubric successful 2012, has had a hard clip wrong and extracurricular the ringing successful caller years.

In November 2021, his daze decision by divided determination to 46-year-old erstwhile UFC combatant Anderson Silva successful a crossover boxing lucifer was undoubtedly the lowest – and astir embarrassing – constituent of his nonrecreational boxing career. Coincidentally, Paul bushed Silva successful a combat past year.

The Mexican’s idiosyncratic issues person included a deficiency of motivation, a repeated nonaccomplishment to marque value for fights, intoxicant and cause addiction, an apprehension for amerciable possession of a firearm successful his Los Angeles location and a failed cause test. At the motorboat of the Paul-Chavez combat successful May astatine The Avalon successful Hollywood, Paul mocked Chavez’s addiction problems arsenic good arsenic his “lack of mentality.”

“I’m going to embarrass him and tally him down similar helium ever does,” Paul said. “I’m going to exposure him. He volition beryllium the embarrassment of Mexico. There are 2 things you can’t bushed – maine and your cause addiction.”

Who is Jake Paul?

Paul gained fame arsenic a societal media prima connected YouTube who turned into a boxer, and has an 11-1 record.

The 28-year-old is 1 of the sport’s apical attractions contempt not having a accepted warring pedigree done a boxing association.

His combat past November with Tyson, which Paul won successful an eight-round decision, peaked astatine a staggering 64 cardinal concurrent streams connected Netflix.

Jake Paul has made astatine slightest $60m since starting his boxing career, according to aggregate sources.

Who is Julio Cesar Chavez Jr?

The lad of Julio Cesar Chavez, a legendary three-division satellite champion, Chavez Jr has amassed a nonrecreational boxing grounds of 53 wins (34 KOs), six losses, and 1 gully implicit a 17-year career.

Chavez was crowned the WBC middleweight champion successful 2011 aft defeating Sebastian Zbik of Germany. He defended the rubric 3 times and was considered to beryllium successful the precocious tier of middleweight boxers alongside chap Mexican, Canelo Alvarez.

But a bid of disappointing results, opening with a nonaccomplishment to Sergio Martinez successful 2012 done to a one-sided decision to Alvarez successful 2017, sent his vocation disconnected the rails.

Chavez’s nonrecreational grounds is simply a mediocre 8-6 since 2012. Despite his galore idiosyncratic issues, Chavez Jr is inactive considered to beryllium equipped with an precocious boxing skillset that volition beryllium a measurement up successful contention for the novice combatant Paul.

What has Paul said astir the fight?

“I would accidental Chavez is astir apt going to beryllium the toughest hostile (I person faced yet), the astir experienced, virtually the astir magnitude of fights retired of each of my opponents,” Paul said during an interrogation with DAZN Boxing.

What has Chavez Jr said astir the fight?

“Yes [I’m motivated to extremity Paul’s career],” Chavez Jr said connected The Ariel Helwani podcast connected June 18. “[I inactive think] that I’m amended than Jake Paul, truthful I deliberation aft this combat possibly Jake continues to combat [and tries] to beryllium a [better] boxer, but I don’t deliberation helium has [the] skills and everything [necessary to] triumph [against me]. I privation to extremity Jake Paul’s career.”

Paul stats:

Nationality: American
Age: 28
Height: 6′ 1″ (1.85m)
Reach: 76″ (1.93m)
Total fights: 12
Record: 11-1 (7 KOs)

Chavez Jr stats:

Nationality: Mexican
Age: 39
Height: 6’0″ (1.83m)
Reach: 73″ (1.85m)
Total fights: 62
Record: 54-6-1 (1) (34 KOs)

Who is connected the undercard?

The main undercard bouts are expected to statesman astatine 5pm section Pacific Standard Time (PST) connected Saturday (00:00 GMT connected Sunday).

Jake Paul vs Julio Cesar Chavez Jr (cruiserweight)
Gilberto “Zurdo” Ramirez (C) vs Yuniel Dorticos (WBA and WBO cruiserweight titles)
Holly Holm vs Yolanda Vega (lightweight)
Floyd Schofield vs Tevin Farmer (lightweight)
Avious Griffin vs Julian Rodriguez (welterweight)
Raul “Cugar” Curiel vs Victor Ezequiel Rodriguez (welterweight)
Naomy Valle vs Ashley Felix (light-flyweight)