At a turning point in his boxing career, Jake Paul must choose between becoming a boxer and a promoter.

 

Jake Paul, the YouTube sensation turned viral boxer, claimed he already knows what the boxing world’s reaction would be on Sunday morning as he gets ready for his pay-per-view comeback on Saturday against former middleweight champion and the son of the Mexican great Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. Paul told CBS Sports last week, “They are going to be discrediting me and my opponent and making excuses as to why [the fight] happened.” “They usually say things like ‘it was fake,’ ‘he took a dive,’ or ‘he was on steroids.'” Naturally, they say, “This is a good fight, and I’m going to lose,” before the fight, but the following day, there are always excuses. Paul’s issue, a 28-year-old native ofIn this instance, Ohio, who is known as “Problem Child,” would truly be justified in the criticism he has received from mainstream boxing. When Paul (11-1, 7 KOs) takes on Chavez (54-6-1, 34 KOs) in a 10-round cruiserweight battle (DAZN PPV, 8 p.m. ET — buy now) inside the Honda Centre in Anaheim, California, he is a 7-to-1 betting favourite going into his 13th professional fight, even though he has only been in the business for five years. On paper, Chavez’s selection is the ideal counterbalance to the barrage of criticism Paul frequently receives for his matchmaking from conventional boxing insiders who frequently ask, “When will you take on a real boxer?” This comes after Paul had gorged himself on former mixed martial arts athletes and a range ofof influencers and part-time boxers (not to mention a nearly 60-year-old Mike Tyson in the Netflix smash from last fall). However, given that the 23-year-old pro has spent the most of the last 13 years missing weight, taking drugs, and frequently quitting on himself whenever fights against respectable names become challenging, it is evident to those who are actually knowledgeable about boxing that the 39-year-old Chavez is a difficult task in name only. A year prior to his last notable victory, in 2011, Chavez defeated a 28-1 Andy Lee, who would later win a middleweight belt of his own, despite having previously won a world title as a 160-pound weight bully. Today’s Chavez just has more red.

 

flags, he possesses redeeming traits that make him a contender. Jake Paul, the YouTube sensation turned viral boxer, claimed he already knows what the boxing world’s reaction would be on Sunday morning as he gets ready for his pay-per-view comeback on Saturday against former middleweight champion and the son of the Mexican great Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. Paul told CBS Sports last week, “They are going to be discrediting me and my opponent and making excuses as to why [the fight] happened.” “They usually say things like ‘it was fake,’ ‘he took a dive,’ or ‘he was on steroids.'” Naturally, they say I’m going to lose and that this is a good fight before it starts, but the next.