Just so I don't make you read this for a long time before I get to the point let me go ahead and tell you the reason why I am watching it and how I think this is the same reason that everyone else is watching it as well.
I want to see Jake get obliterated
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Jake Paul is likely the most successful boxing promoter of all time and just like other great promoters like the famous Don King, he is also likely a bit of a scumbag. However, with Jake, he stumbled upon a formula that started out as being an easily-dismissed side show and then turned it into hundreds of millions of dollars for himself. The fact that this guy is still alive is kind of amazing to me because the boxing underworld is a very dirty one... too much money involved for it to not be.
I digress... Jake's fights have been rightfully called out for being stacked in his favor and he has a winning record almost exclusively because he fights people that are either not boxers or WERE good boxers 10 years ago. The only time that he has lost was at the hands of someone that is a current boxer but even I will admit that this was still a very close match.
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The reason why not many people talk about the Tommy Fury fight is because even though Jake did lose, he didn't get absolutely worked and that is what I think a lot of people want to see. This guy has made a mockery of the sweet science and yet pulls down much larger paydays than the people that have spent their entire lives perfecting the craft and actually ARE really good at it.
Jake's fight with Mike Tyson, well that was a joke from the start but through a series of very well-done promotional events including seeing training videos of Mike that make Tyson look like a beast, we all kind of hoped that Mike was going to get in there and just break the dude's arms as he tried to block. Well, block he did and Tyson quickly gassed out, unsurprisingly. What the fans got was 30 minutes of hugging and it was just embarrassing to see Mike throw away his legacy in that.
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This is them embracing after the fight was over but honestly, it may as well have been the rest of the fight also since they would throw a few wildly off target punches, then go in for the clinch and just hug until the ref forced them apart, over and over and over again.
With Jake's opponent tonight against Julio Caesar Chavez Jr on paper anyway, looks as though it could "be different" because Chavez isn't in an old folks home (yet) and he has a ton of fights under his belt. he also isn't even 40 (but close.) Chavez was a world champion but it was a long time ago and he saw his fall from grace long before Jake was even outside of the script for the Mickey Mouse Club.
Chavez has an amazing past but then again, so did Mike Tyson and Anderson Silva, who by the way, defeated Chavez Jr in an exhibition boxing match back in 2021.
Chavez doesn't appear to have taken boxing seriously in quite some time but this doesn't change the fact that he was recently world champion a lot more recently than Mike Tyson was, so that is one benefit.
Chavez has or at least HAD the tools necessary to completely embarrass Jake Paul in the ring but here is the main problem: There is so much money involved in this fight that I can't help but wonder if there is some sort of contract stipulation that states he is not allowed to KO Paul. There's always speculation that fights involving both him and his brother Logan have things like this built in so that the boxing promotion can continue to rip people off for years to come.
I think a lot of people who have been fans of boxing for a long time would love to see this YouTuber who basically hijacked the sport for several years, get humbled.
This is the closest thing that Jake has tried to do with an actual somewhat recent fighter in a long time. He dodges callouts from real boxers and there is a lot of talk about how he does this because he knows he will lose.
he is in a great position though because he calls the shots about who gets to fight him and he knows that people are going to do whatever he says because he owns the promotion.
I want to see him get battered but even though we are just a few minutes away from the opening bell, I think that I can predict exactly what is going to happen here. Jake is going to clinch early and often. Chavez is taller than Jake, which is unusual for him, and their weight is almost exactly the same.
So folks this is probably as close as we are going to get to a "real" boxing match involving Jake Paul. Is he going to prove all of us wrong? If he does I will eat my words and give the guy the praise he deserves but up to this point I think that Jake kind of embodies everything that is wrong with today's society: Jake has the top spot on promotions not because he is the best or even closest to the best, but because he has the money and the influence to make it happen.