Tonight’s Live Results: Jake Paul vs. Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. – from Anaheim

Cruiserweight Jake Paul will take a step up in competitors tonight towards Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. of their 10-round important occasion on DAZN PPV on the Honda Heart in Anaheim, California. It’s a take a look at to find out whether or not the favored YouTuber Paul (11-1, 7 KOs) is able to start combating top-tier contenders.

Outcomes

– Raul Curiel (16-0-1, 14 KOs) scored a fourth-round knockout of Victor Ezequiel Rodriguez (16-1-1, 9 KOs). Curiel, 29, dropped Rodriguez with a nose-crunching proper uppercut. When he received again up, Curiel pounced on him and completed him off with a flurry, inflicting the referee, Michael Margado, to halt the combat. The time of the stoppage was 2:09 of spherical 4.

Rodriguez’s face instantly started to swell from his injured nostril when he received again to his ft. He’d backed up towards the ropes, bending ahead whereas protecting up in what appeared like an act of give up.

Punch stats

Raul Curiel: 56 of 113 punches thrown for a 50% charge
Victor Ezequiel Rodríguez: 47 of 168 photographs for 28%

– Julian Rodriguez (24-1, 15 KOs) knocked out beforehand unbeaten Avious Griffin (17-1, 16 KOs) within the last spherical of their ten-round welterweight contest. The lanky 6’0″ Griffin received reckless, attempting to attain a come-from-behind KO, and paid for it by getting dropped by a tough hook from Rodriguez. Blood was gushing out of Griffin’s nostril as he lay face down on the canvas. He appeared out of it when he lastly received up.

Griffin had knocked Rodriquez down within the eighth, however he nonetheless gave the impression to be trailing going into the tenth.

Last punch stats

Julian Rodriguez: 92 of 223 punches thrown for 41%
Avious Griffin:  94 of 342 photographs for  27%

– Floyd Schofield (19-0, 13 KOs) caught Tevin Farmer (33-9-1, 8 KOs), knocking him out within the first spherical of their scheduled ten-round light-weight contest. Schofield, 22, caught Farmer with a looping proper hand to the top moments into the combat. In a follow-up barrage, Schofield dropped the previous IBF tremendous bantamweight champion Farmer a second time.

Farmer let the referee, Gerald White, know that he was okay, however he didn’t look it. When the motion resumed, Schofield pounced on his wounded prey, nailing him with a number of onerous punches, prompting the referee to step in and halt the combat. The time of the stoppage was at 1:18 of spherical one.

Wow! This wasn’t imagined to occur, as Schofield had by no means proven the type of expertise to defeat a fighter of Farmer’s expertise like what we noticed tonight. The one factor you possibly can say to clarify that is possibly the 2 grueling fights that Farmer had in losses to William Zepeda took one thing out of him, leaving him because the burned-out husk that we noticed tonight.

– Holly Holm (34-2-3, 9 KOs) returned to the boxing ring after a 12-year break to defeat Yolanda Guadalupe Vega Ochoa (10-1, 1 KOs) by a one-sided 10-round unanimous resolution in a light-weight combat. The 43-year-old Holm used motion and fast photographs to dominate the combat. From the seventh spherical, she was extra stationary, touchdown repeated left palms down the pipe to the top of Vegas. The scores had been 100-90, 100-90, and 100-90.

– Joel Iriarte (8-0, 7 KOs) was pressured to go the eight-round distance, defeating journeyman Kevin Johnson (12-7, 8 KOs) by a large unanimous resolution in a welterweight combat. The lanky 6’1″ Iriate surprisingly didn’t use his peak and attain benefit.

As an alternative, he selected to combat on the within, utilizing a whole lot of mauling to maintain Johnson, 32, pinned to the ropes in all the combat. It made the competition boring to observe as a result of there was little or no separation. The judges scored it 78-74, 80-72, and 79-74

– Alexander Gueche (8-0, 5 KOs) outclassed Vincent Avina (8-2-1, 7 KOs), successful a large eight-round unanimous resolution in a bantamweight combat. The scores had been 80-72, 80-72, and 79-73.

– 2024 U.S Olympian Joshua Edwards (3-0, 3 KOs) scored a first-round knockout win over Dominicc Hardy (6-4, 4 KOs). Edwards, 25, related with a tough lead proper hand that folded Hardy, sending him down flat on his again. The referee, David Hartman, stopped the combat when Hardy, 35, staggered after attending to his ft. The time of the stoppage was at 1:03 of spherical one. With the way in which Hardy’s proper leg folded again as he fell, it was clear he wasn’t going to have the ability to proceed.

– Rene Alvarado (35-16, 22 KOs) used nonstop Zepeda-esque strain to dominate beforehand unbeaten Victor Morales (20-1-1, 10 KOs) in a lopsided 10-round unanimous resolution in tremendous featherweight motion. The scores had been 96-94, 99-91, and 99-91. Boxing Information scored it 10 rounds to zero for the proficient Nicaraguan Alvarado.

You would inform early on that Morales was going to be in for a protracted night time when Alvarado hit him with 4 rapid-fire left hooks to the physique within the second spherical. From there, it received worse with Alvarado stalking the chunky-looking Morales across the ring, hitting him with physique photographs and speedy mixtures to the top.

Within the sixth spherical, Morales suffered a reduce over his left eye from the fixed barrage of punches Alvarado was hitting him with. Morales took a whole lot of headshots within the seventh spherical and was retreating throughout the ring, attempting to flee the strain from Alvarado. After the spherical ended, the referee went to Morales’ nook and let him know that he’d taken a whole lot of punches in that spherical.

– John ‘Scrappy’ Ramirez (15-1, 9 KOs) outslugged veteran Josue Jesus Morales (33-19-5, 14 KOs), successful a large eight-round unanimous resolution in a brilliant flyweight contest within the first combat of the prelim card. The scores had been 79-73, 80-72, and 80-72.

Paul vs. Chavez Jr: PPV Particulars

Tonight’s occasion begins at 8:00 p.m. ET/5:00 p.m. PT on DAZN PPV. Ring walks are roughly 11:30 p.m. ET/8:30 p.m. PT. The worth of the occasion is $59.99.

Jake Paul, 28, has chosen the pale former WBC middleweight champion Chavez Jr. (54-6-1, 34 KOs) to indicate that he’s a reputable fighter. Nonetheless, he failed to understand how little curiosity followers have in Chavez Jr’s profession.

Paul’s Previous Foes: Previous, Ex-MMA

The recognition he as soon as had, 10 to 12 years in the past, he has since misplaced attributable to his repeated failures. In hindsight, Jake couldn’t have chosen a worse opponent to promote a combat on pay-per-view if he tried. Paul’s alternative of the 39-year-old Chavez Jr. as an opponent is in keeping with the kind of fighters he’s been going through throughout his five-year professional profession. He’s focused older fighters and washed ex-MMA stars.

Chavez Jr. will obtain a pleasant examine for being Jake’s opponent on PPV, and can seemingly lose, as he has finished many instances during the last decade.

Undercard Fights: Paul vs. Chavez

Jake Paul vs. Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.
Gilberto “Zurdo” Ramirez vs. Yuniel Dorticos
Holly Holm vs. Yolanda Vega
Floyd Schofield vs. Tevin Farmer
Avious Griffin vs. Julian Rodriguez
Raul Curiel vs. Victor Ezequiel Rodriguez
Naomy Valle vs. Ashley Felix
Victor Morales vs. Rene Alvarado
Joel Iriarte vs. Yusuph Metu
Alexander Gueche vs. Vincent Avina
Joshua Edwards vs. Dominicc Hardy

Ramirez, Farmer on Paul Card

WBC and WBO cruiserweight champion Gilberto Ramirez (47-1, 30 KOs) is on the undercard, defending towards Yuniel Dorticos (27-2, 25 KOs). This combat has failed to draw curiosity from followers because of the 39-year-old Cuban Dorticos’ inactivity. Within the final 5 years, he’s fought solely 4 instances, and a type of fights was a defeat.

The combat on tonight’s card that has generated some curiosity is Tevin Farmer vs. Floyd Schofield. Farmer (33-8-1, 8 KOs) is a well known former tremendous featherweight champion, who gave William Schofield and Raymond Muratalla a troublesome time in latest fights.

Tevin goes up towards the unbeaten Schofield (18-0, 12 KOs), who has been maneuvered rigorously by Golden Boy, steering him in the direction of a world title combat with out matching him towards any world-class opposition. Tonight would be the first time that Schofield fights a contender.