{"id":195727,"date":"2025-06-19T00:11:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T00:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/195727\/"},"modified":"2025-06-19T00:11:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T00:11:08","slug":"anderson-silva-delivers-honest-verdict-on-jake-paul-vs-julio-chavez-jr-as-only-man-to-face-both","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/195727\/","title":{"rendered":"Anderson Silva Delivers Honest Verdict On Jake Paul vs Julio Chavez Jr As Only Man To Face Both"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MMA legend Anderson Silva is the only fighter to share the ring with both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/topic\/jake-paul\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jake Paul<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/topic\/julio-cesar-chavez-jr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Julio Cesar Chavez Jr<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/news\/canelo-on-pauls-chances-vs-chavez-jr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Youtuber-turned-boxer Paul clashes with former WBC world middleweight champion Chavez on Saturday June 28<\/a> at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California.<\/p>\n<p>Silva made the transition into boxing four years ago when he locked horns with Chavez in their six-rounds light-heavyweight bout at the Estadio Jalisco in Guadalajara, picking up a split decision victory against the Mexican.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Spider\u2019 went on to face Paul just eighteen months after his win over Chavez, although <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/34907619\/jake-paul-drops-anderson-silva-win-calls-nate-diaz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he was beaten by the former Youtube sensation over eight rounds in Arizona, suffering a knockdown in the final round of their bout<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RHnThQMOK_M\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ESNEWS<\/a>, Silva\u2019s son Gabriel Silva revealed who his father is backing to come out on top when his former rival\u2019s meet later this month.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s definitely going for Chavez.<\/p>\n<p>It all depends on which Chavez we\u2019re going to get on the night of the fight. If he\u2019s going to be focused or if he\u2019s been lacking around.<\/p>\n<p>From what I heard he\u2019s been training at Mayweather\u2019s gym, I know a lot of those guys in there. So you can never count that out, I don\u2019t even know if he\u2019s ever been dropped, a guy like Jake might not have it to put him out. It\u2019s going to be a good fight but my dad is definitely going for Chavez.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Paul could move a step closer to securing himself a dream world title shot should he defeat Chavez, but the 28-year-old from Cleveland must do so in impressive fashion if he is to capture world honours against all odds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MMA legend Anderson Silva is the only fighter to share the ring with both Jake Paul and Julio&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-195727","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":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114707135774972752","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195727","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=195727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}