{"id":123905,"date":"2025-05-23T00:33:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T00:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/123905\/"},"modified":"2025-05-23T00:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T00:33:08","slug":"its-not-boxing-bob-arum-on-jake-paul-vs-chavez-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/123905\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s not boxing\u2019: Bob Arum on Jake Paul vs Chavez Jr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  On Jake Paul vs Julio Cesar Chavez Jr<\/p>\n<p id=\"2U9HlB\">\u201cThat\u2019s not even boxing. Chavez Jr should have hung up \u2014 I thought he had hung up the gloves a long time ago. Jake Paul is not a boxer. It\u2019s spectacle. The Tyson event was sort of demeaning for the sport of boxing. Tyson was an old man, and what are we talking about? But again, if Netflix or somebody else wants to pay for that event \u2014 I mean, that\u2019s fine. But I have no interest in it. I have absolutely no interest in a Jake Paul vs Chavez Jr fight because it\u2019s not boxing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"215M7c\">On concerns about Chavez Jr\u2019s ring fitness: \u201cThey\u2019ll go to a place where being medically vetted is not the same as it would be, say, in Nevada. They\u2019ll work their way around it. I mean, Mike Tyson shouldn\u2019t have been in the ring, because no commission should have allowed Mike Tyson to put on a pair of boxing gloves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"bFqz8g\">On Jake Paul possibly facing a Top Rank fighter: \u201cRichard Torrez would be a good fight. Beterbiev would be a good fight. But Jake Paul is not fighting a real fighter. I mean, Jake Paul is smarter than you and me combined! It\u2019s not a scam, because people know what they\u2019re getting, but he is not interested in fighting somebody who can really give him a whipping. I remember when Jake Paul, before he caught onto this stuff, I was in England and he was fighting Tyson Fury\u2019s half-brother, Tommy Fury, who can\u2019t fight. Tommy Fury won every round, won a decision. There are very few heavyweights you can name that Tommy Fury would last more than one or two rounds.<\/p>\n<p id=\"0tEZvy\">\u201c(Richard Torrez) would knock the shit out of (Jake Paul)! But Jake Paul is not gonna fight a Richard Torrez. No way would he fight a Richard Torrez.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On a possible 5v5 with Matchroom<\/p>\n<p id=\"1F3TFD\">\u201cNo, 5v5 is ludicrous. Eddie Hearn is not a fighter, I\u2019m not a fighter. To match his fighters with my fighters, what does it prove? Nothing. I would certainly work and have worked with Eddie to put on good, good fights that entertain the people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Keyshawn Davis<\/p>\n<p id=\"AwqRi9\">\u201cI told everybody, Keyshawn Davis reminds me of Sugar Ray Leonard. He fights the same style as Leonard did. Everybody thought Leonard was just a pit-a-pat boxer, but that was not the case. Leonard was a killer.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Jake Paul vs Julio Cesar Chavez Jr \u201cThat\u2019s not even boxing. 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