{"id":186880,"date":"2025-06-15T17:22:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T17:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/186880\/"},"modified":"2025-06-15T17:22:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T17:22:08","slug":"bob-arum-delivers-honest-verdict-on-jake-paul-vs-julio-cesar-chavez-jr-hes-not-a-real-fighter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/186880\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Arum Delivers Honest Verdict On Jake Paul vs Julio Cesar Chavez Jr: “He’s Not A Real Fighter”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jake Paul<\/a> vs. Julio Cesar Chavez Jr<\/a> is less than two weeks away.<\/p>\n

Paul takes the latest step in his boxing journey when he goes up against former WBC middleweight champion Chavez Jr<\/a> at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California on June 28.<\/p>\n

\u2018The Problem Child\u2019 was last in action in November, defeating heavyweight legend Mike Tyson<\/a> in a controversial bout, due to \u2018Iron Mike\u2019 being over 30 years older than Paul and having not competed in nearly two decades.<\/p>\n

Chavez Jr will be 39 for the bout against Paul, much younger than Tyson who was 58 for his clash eight months ago, but the upcoming battle has still received some criticism from boxing personnel, with Top Rank CEO Bob Arum<\/a> one of them.<\/p>\n

Arum has been speaking to Fight Hub TV<\/a> about the fight, with the legendary promoter explaining that he has \u2018absolutely no interest in it.\u2019<\/p>\n

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\u201cChavez Jr, I thought he had hung up the gloves a long time ago. Jake Paul is not a boxer. It\u2019s a spectacle. The Tyson event was sort of demeaning for the sport of boxing. Tyson was an old man. What are we talking about? But, if Netflix or somebody else wants to pay for that event, that\u2019s fine. I have no interest in it. I have absolutely no interest in a Jake Paul-Chavez Jr fight, because it\u2019s not boxing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cJake Paul is not fighting a real fighter. He\u2019s smarter than you and me combined. It\u2019s not a scam because people know what they\u2019re getting, but he\u2019s not interested in fighting somebody that can really give him a whooping.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Tyson himself has also weighed in on the fight, needing just one word to sum up his reaction.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jake Paul vs. Julio Cesar Chavez Jr is less than two weeks away. Paul takes the latest step…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-186880","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}