Chávez Jr. makes Jake Paul look like a boxer

Jake Paul chooses his opponents so he can beat them. He can do so because he's the one paying, whether he's facing a nearly sixty-year-old Mike Tyson or a retired boxer, scarred by his addictions (which he's since overcome), like Julito César Chávez. Fighting the YouTuber turned boxer guarantees them several million dollars, and we'll always wonder what the secret contracts for these fights, which are unworthy of the boxing world, say.

They met in the main event at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California, and put on a pitiful spectacle . Especially the son of Julio César Chávez, one of the greatest boxers in history, who supported his offspring without hiding the pathetic nature of the 80 percent of the rounds being scheduled for 10.

Julito did nothing in the first eight. And nothing is nothing beyond a loose hand in the sixth. His physique didn't help, since cruiserweight is an exaggeration for the Culiacán native, who fourteen years ago became the WBC middleweight champion at 160 pounds, compared to 200 last night . He looked fat for the division Paul wants , as he doesn't face real cruiserweights because they would destroy him in the first round, like the ones in the previous fight, the one between Zurdo Ramírez and Dorticos.

The legendary son simply covered himself with a high guard while the American threw jabs, long left straights, and, from time to time, combinations with even a notable uppercut. And so he won every round against the completely passive Chávez Jr., who didn't throw a single punch. His father assured ABC during his recent visit to Madrid that Chávez Jr. was preparing like never before, but it didn't show.

It took the penultimate round, the ninth, for him to see him fight . The Mexican, boxing for the first time, won, but it was already too late. Even with knockdowns in the final two rounds, he couldn't come back, so only a knockout would give him the victory. And the feeling many of us have is that this fight couldn't end in a knockout, which would even be a given, if not a given. In fact, in the final stretch of the tenth, Julito landed a left hand that stunned Paul, but he didn't take advantage of the final seconds to try to finish the job and turn the fight around. In the end, it was a clear 98-92 for the YouTuber.

These events may attract boxing audiences who may not even know who Paul's media-savvy contender is, and money to the other boxers on the card, but they should not be considered professional boxing even if they are sanctioned.