When is Jake Paul vs Julio Cesar Chavez Jnr?

Jake Paul vs Julio Cesar Chavez Jnr is on Saturday, June 28. The main pay-per-view broadcast begins at 8 p.m. ET (1 a.m. BST).

What channel is Jake Paul vs Julio Cesar Chavez Jnr on?

Jake Paul vs. Julio Cesar Chavez Jnr is a pay-per-view available for purchase on DAZN.

Where is Jake Paul vs Julio Cesar Chavez Jnr?

The fight is taking place at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California.

Who is Jake Paul?

The 28-year-old Paul is a social media sensation with actual athletic ability who has legitimately dedicated himself to boxing training, even though his choice of opposition has not been anywhere near as legitimate as his detractors would want.

While compiling his record of 11-1 (7 KOs), Paul beat a retired basketball player, undersized and/or past-their-prime mixed martial artists (most notably the 47-year-old Anderson Silva in 2022) and lost a split decision to Tommy Fury – no world-beater himself – in February 2023.

One more MMA name followed before Paul took on two actual boxers, though Andre August and Ryan Bourland were naturally smaller than Paul at cruiserweight (plus their limits had already been shown in previous performances against nondescript opponents).

This writer foolishly thought Paul would finally have to step up his level of competition in order to keep audiences interested. And then, within two weeks of beating Bourland, Paul announced a fight with Mike Tyson.

The Tyson fight was pushed back due to the aged former heavyweight champion dealing with health issues. In place of “Iron” Mike Tyson, Paul beat “Platinum” Mike Perry, an MMA fighter turned bare-knuckle boxer. Paul-Tyson still happened. Those four words are about the best that can be done to describe the action. (If you want 2,000 words from me, here’s my column from immediately afterward.)

“We shouldn’t expect Paul to go after his fellow cruiserweights, bridgerweights or heavyweights just yet. Not as his first choice, at least. That’s too much risk for too little reward,” I wrote following the Tyson debacle. “He’ll keep going back to the well until the well runs dry.”

And Paul has dug way down and pulled out the bones of Chavez Jnr.

Who is Julio Cesar Chavez Jnr?

Chavez, 54-6-1 (34 KOs), of course capitalized on sharing a name with his legendary fighting father. And while the younger Chavez never approached a Hall of Fame career, he was once a legitimate world titleholder, besting Sebastian Zbik in 2011 for the WBC title at 160lbs and making three successful defenses, against Peter Manfredo Jnr, Marco Antonio Rubio and Andy Lee.

Chavez was never the best middleweight in the world. But he stepped in with his division’s champion, Sergio Martinez, in September 2012 and was getting shut out until the final round. That’s when Chavez brought the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas to its feet, dropping Martinez, who was able to survive and won the otherwise clear decision.

Nothing Chavez has done since has approached those 15 months of his career. And he hasn’t done much anyway in the past nearly 13 years.

He moved up in weight and took a pair of decisions over Brian Vera, the first one controversial. He stepped up to light heavyweight and called it a night after nine rounds with Andrzej Fonfara. He fought once in 2016, once in 2017 (a shutout loss to Saul “Canelo” Alvarez), not at all in 2018 and twice in 2019, including remaining in his corner after five rounds with Daniel Jacobs.

Chavez lost a technical decision to Mario Cazares in 2020, picked up a win over an unheralded foe two months later and then dropped a split decision to the aforementioned Anderson Silva, who was 46 years old at the time, in June 2021. Since then, Chavez has boxed just twice. There was a unanimous decision over the 34-6 David Zegarra at the end of 2021, then nothing until July 2024, when he pulled a Paul, outpointing former MMA fighter Uriah Hall over six rounds on the undercard of Paul-Perry.

Chavez is now 39 years old. He is 13 years past his short-lived prime at a weight class 40 pounds below where this match with Paul is taking place.

What other fights are on the undercard of Jake Paul vs. Julio Cesar Chavez Jnr?

The co-feature will see Gilberto Ramirez defend his WBA and WBO cruiserweight titles against Yuniel Dorticos.

Ramirez, 47-1 (30 KOs), unified those two belts in November with an excellent unanimous decision victory over Chris Billam-Smith. Ramirez wants to become the undisputed champion at 200lbs, which would necessitate collisions with Jai Opetaia (IBF/lineal) and Badou Jack (WBC). Of course, Ramirez also wouldn’t turn down the significant payday that would come with a Jake Paul spectacle.

Dorticos, 27-2 (25 KOs), is a former titleholder himself whose only defeats have come against two of the best cruisers of recent years. His time with a secondary WBA belt came to an end with a 12th-round TKO loss to Murat Gassiev in 2018. Dorticos captured the vacant IBF title in 2019 by knocking out the previously unbeaten Andrew Tabiti. However, Dorticos’ reign ended with his first defense 15 months later, when he dropped a majority decision to Mairis Briedis in 2020. Dorticos has fought only three times since then and was last in the ring in June 2024.

The rest of the PPV will feature a lightweight bout between Floyd Schofield, 18-0 (12 KOs), and Tevin Farmer, 33-8-1 (8 KOs); a welterweight bout between Avious Griffin, 17-0 (16 KOs), and Julian Rodriguez, 23-1 (14 KOs); and a welterweight bout between Raul Curiel, 15-0-1 (13 KOs), and Victor Ezequiel Rodriguez, 16-0-1 (9 KOs).

A free preliminary stream is headlined by Holly Holm, 33-2-3 (9 KOs), who is returning to boxing after 12 years away from this sport – though that time was spent competing in MMA, mostly within the UFC. Holm will face Yolanda Guadalupe Vega Ochoa, 10-0 (1 KO).

Also on the prelims in separate bouts will be junior bantamweight John “Scrappy” Ramirez, 14-1 (9 KOs); junior lightweight prospect Victor Morales, 20-0-1 (10 KOs); welterweight prospect Joel Iriarte, 7-0 (7 KOs); and bantamweight prospect Alexander Gueche, 7-0 (5 KOs).

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