Jake Paul will face the former medium-sized weight champion Julio César Chávez Jr. in the next influencer-boxer fight on June 28 at the Honda Center in Anaheim.
Paul (11-1, 7 kos) and Chávez (54-6-1, 34 ko) will have a 10 round fight to a 200-pound capture weight limit, announced the Golden Boy promoter on Friday.
Paul has fought mainly with other mixed martial youtubers and artists since he began his wildly lucrative boxing career five years ago. He fought against Mike Tyson, 58, last November, winning for a unanimous decision.
Paul broadly negotiated a fight against Mexican star Canelo Álvarez earlier this year, but Álvarez rejected the fight for a rich agreement of four and four with the Riad season, the general entertainment of the promotional boxing Arabia. It is not clear if Álvarez took the fight against Paul seriously or simply took advantage of the Internet star for a bigger payment day.
Chávez, 39, has a bone somewhere between a serious boxer and a showman for many years.
He had a long and lucrative career of his own, but he was based largely on the unconditional love of Mexican fans for his famous father. The young Chávez was quite known for lacking discipline and often missing weight, although he also managed to win the medium weight of the WBC in 2011 and defend him three times Sergio Martinez Tok it in 2012.
Chávez has also resorted to the fight against mixed martial artists in recent years, and lost infamously to former UFC Anderson Silva star in 2021. Chávez has only fought twice since that defeat, and by little he beat the former UFC Uriah Hall fighter in a period of six rounds last year.
Associated Press reports.
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