Jake Paul will step into the ring with former middleweight champ Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. in lower than a month … and The Drawback Baby says he’ll beat the previous title holder so badly, it will catapult him to a championship of his personal!

28-year-old Paul joined Babcock on the TMZ Sports activities TV present (airs nightly on FS1) … the place the fellows chopped it concerning the June twenty eighth scrap in SoCal.

“Man, I am feeling higher than ever,” Jake stated. “That is going to be my breakout efficiency.”

“It may be a troublesome battle, you understand. Somebody’s going to get embarrassed, and it isn’t going to be me. However I am coaching tougher than ever. I do know that is my hardest opponent but. Perhaps not the largest title opponent, nevertheless it’s nonetheless going to be an excellent, tremendous good battle.”

In fact, 39-year-old Chavez Jr., son of the legendary Julio Cesar Chavez Sr., is the much more skilled pugilist … with 64 skilled fights underneath his belt.

If there’s been criticism of Julio over time, it has been followers questioning his work ethic. That will or might not have been a problem previously, nevertheless it’s not one now, in accordance with Jake, who says he is heard his opp is taking the battle extra significantly than any in his profession.

Paul vs. Chavez Jr. is not the one anticipated scrap on the cardboard. UFC legend Holly Holm — who defeated Ronda Rousey in one in every of MMA’s most memorable moments ever — is returning to her roots for a boxing match.

Holm, who not too long ago signed with Jake’s MVP promotion, will battle Yolanda Vega in a 10-round boxing match … her first since 2013.

The addition of Holly is simply the most recent transfer Jake’s taken to pump up girls’s boxing (see Amanda Serrano) … and we requested him if we might see him add different feminine boxing stars to MVP’s roster — particularly Claressa Shields.

Shields has been important of Paul at instances … however that does not imply Jake is not prepared to do enterprise with T-Rex.