Jake Paul defeats Chavez Jr by unanimous decision in boxing fight

‘I privation tougher fighters, I privation to beryllium satellite champion,’ Paul said successful his situation to erstwhile and existent WBC champions.

Celebrity boxer Jake Paul has defeated erstwhile middleweight boxing champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr by unanimous determination successful a cruiserweight combat successful California, United States.

The 28-year-old YouTube influencer-turned-boxer overcame his hostile with a judges’ people of 99-91, 97-93 and 98-92 successful the 10-round combat astatine Honda Center successful Anaheim connected Saturday night.

The triumph marks Paul’s triumphant instrumentality to the ringing 7 months aft his blockbuster combat against 58-year-old erstwhile heavyweight champion Mike Tyson.

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

Paul, who gained fame arsenic a societal media prima connected YouTube and became a boxer, present has a six-fight winning streak and a 12-1 grounds with 7 knockouts (KOs).

Jake Paul celebrates astatine the extremity of the cruiserweight boxing bout against Julio Cesar Chavez Jr [Patrick T Fallon /AFP]

‘I privation to beryllium satellite champion’

Following the win, Paul challenged a fig of existent and erstwhile WBC champions to a fight.

“I privation tougher fighters, I privation to beryllium satellite champion,” helium told streaming work DAZN successful the ring.

He called connected Zurdo Ramirez, Badou Jack, Anthony Joshua, Gervonta Davis and Tommy Fury to “stop running”.

However, Chavez Jr said his conqueror was a “good fighter” but was not acceptable to look the database of champions helium had named.

“He is strong, [he is a] bully boxer [but] I don’t deliberation he’s acceptable for champions,” the Mexican said.

Paul, who was acceptable to look Canelo Alvarez until the second signed a lucrative four-fight woody with Turki Alalshikh’s Riyadh Season, said Alvarez was “ducking” the fight.

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.”

Alvarez, a Mexican boxing superstar, unified boxing’s super-middleweight satellite titles aft a pedestrian but unanimous points triumph implicit IBF champion William Scull successful Riyadh connected May 3 .

Paul celebrates his triumph [Patrick T Fallon/AFP]

Paul vs Chavez Jr: Contrasting fortunes

The 28-year-old is 1 of the sport’s apical attractions contempt not having a accepted warring pedigree done a boxing association. Paul has made astatine slightest $60m since starting his boxing career, according to aggregate sources.

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

Meanwhile, Chavez Jr – with a grounds of (54-7-1, 34 KOs) – past held a large boxing satellite rubric successful 2012 and has had a hard clip wrong and extracurricular the ringing successful caller years.

In November 2021, his daze decision by a 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”.

Reports accidental that Paul has a accidental of entering the WBC’s rankings with the win.

“The WBC ratings committee has been pursuing Jake Paul’s career,” ESPN reported WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman arsenic saying earlier the fight.

“If helium defeats Chavez, and depending connected however the combat plays out, the committee volition marque the decision. It’s precise apt [Paul volition beryllium ranked] if helium wins convincingly.”

Paul, right, punches Chavez Jr during their cruiserweight boxing lucifer [Etienne Laurent/AP]