{"id":229379,"date":"2025-07-01T13:19:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T13:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/229379\/"},"modified":"2025-07-01T13:19:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T13:19:09","slug":"jake-paul-was-surprisingly-outweighed-by-julio-cesar-chavez-jr-as-fight-night-weights-are-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/229379\/","title":{"rendered":"Jake Paul was surprisingly outweighed by Julio Cesar Chavez Jr as fight night weights are revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Jake Paul has historically been accused of cherry picking opponents who are much smaller than him so that he can bully them in the ring.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This past Saturday, Jake Paul<\/a> returned to the boxing ring for the first time since his controversial win over Mike Tyson<\/a> last November, when he took on Julio Cesar Chavez Jr<\/a> in Anaheim, California.<\/p>\n

\u2018The Problem Child\u2019 went on to pick up another dominant victory, continuing to divide the boxing fanbase after scoring the unanimous decision victory<\/a> against the former WBC middleweight champion.<\/p>\n

Following his win over the Mexican, Paul has now entered the top 15 of the WBA rankings<\/a>. He is now eligible for a cruiserweight world title shot against Zurdo Ramirez, and the two faced off following Saturday night\u2019s fights<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"JakePhoto by Tayfun Coskun\/Anadolu via Getty ImagesJake Paul was outweighed by Julio Cesar Chavez Jr on fight night<\/p>\n

Throughout his career, the 28-year-old has continuously received criticism for his involvement in the sport, with one of the gripes being how he cherry picks opponents who are smaller than him.<\/p>\n

Following his win, Paul threatened to \u2018vigorously go after\u2019<\/a> people that continue to make up \u2018irresponsible\u2019 claims about his boxing career, as he continued his feud with controversial British talk show host, Piers Morgan.<\/p>\n

However, \u2018The Problem Child\u2019 may have regained some of his reputation following the fight as the fight night weights of the fighters have been revealed and there are some surprising numbers.<\/p>\n

During the official weigh-ins on the Friday before the fight, Paul weighed in at 199.4lbs and only put on 10lbs come fight night as he stepped into the ring at 209.4lbs, only increasing his weight by 5%.<\/p>\n

On the other side, Chavez Jr, who competed the majority of his career at a lower weight of around 160lbs, weighed in at 198.4lbs during the official weigh-ins, but put on a significant 15.1lbs by fight night.<\/p>\n

On Saturday night, Chavez Jr weighed 213.5lbs, outweighing Paul by 4.1lbs. Of course the extra weight didn\u2019t pay dividends for the Mexican as Paul dominated him for the large majority of the fight.<\/p>\n

Jake Paul branded \u2018crazy\u2019 for calling out former heavyweight world champion<\/p>\n

Following his win over the former world champion, Paul called out several current world champions as he looks to achieve his final goal of his career.<\/p>\n

One of the names that the 28-year-old called out was former heavyweight world champion Anthony Joshua<\/a>, who has been out of the ring for a while since his devastating loss to Daniel Dubois.<\/p>\n

With Joshua being a legit former world champion who would be considerably bigger than he is, Paul was branded \u2018crazy\u2019<\/a> for making the callout by Roy Jones Jr.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jake Paul has historically been accused of cherry picking opponents who are much smaller than him so that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,17819,63567,19846,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-229379","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-jake-paul","10":"tag-jake-paul-vs-julio-cesar-chavez-jr","11":"tag-julio-cesar-chavez-jr","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114778181720437522","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229379","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=229379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}