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Jake Paul v Julio César Chávez Jr: How to watch the fight on Virgin TV
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Internet superstar Jake Paul is back in the ring this weekend to take on a former world champ. Here’s everything you need to know, including how to purchase the fight on DAZN with Virgin Media
By Chris Miller, Feature Writer
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- 25 June 2025
A couple of years ago, you might have thought of Jake Paul as a YouTuber and entrepreneur who did a bit of boxing on the side. Now, although he’s still a big star on YouTube, there’s no doubt about it: he’s a boxer.
Combat sports website Bloody Elbow has done the sums and calculated that Paul has earned more than $61 million (£45 million) from boxing since his first fight in 2020. Sports business publication Sportico put him 52nd in its 2025 ranking of the world’s highest-paid athletes, ahead of golfer Bryson DeChambeau, footballer Kevin De Bruyne, NFL star Travis Kelce and other huge names.
With hordes of fans paying their hard-earned cash to watch him fight, he’s not just a boxer – he’s one of the biggest boxers around. Like Floyd Mayweather and Marvin Hagler before him, Paul is pure box office. And he’s putting his record and reputation on this line again this weekend when he takes on former world champ Julio César Chávez Jr – a fight you can watch live on DAZN with Virgin Media, starting at 1am on Sunday 29 June. Here’s what you need to know ahead of this massive event.
What’s the background to this fight?
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Paul started out against other YouTubers, MMA stars and part-time fighters, but always maintained that he wanted to be a serious boxer, and has genuine ambitions to be a world champion. The first time he faced a pro boxer – Tommy Fury, cousin of former world champ Tyson (and Love Island star) – he lost. But since then, he’s beaten pros Andre August and Ryan Bourland, and then last November he got in the ring with former world heavyweight champ Mike Tyson.
Considering Tyson was 58 and not in great shape (he had to postpone from the original date because of an ulcer), this fight was more about the box office. But because Paul had to step up a weight, his training was arduous, and he was rewarded with a unanimous points victory and a fight against another former world champion
Julio César Chávez Jr has been described as one of the most famous names in boxing – a kind of backhanded compliment. It’s the man who shares his name, his father Chávez Sr, who’s the true legend, a world champ at three weights with a place in the International Boxing Hall of Fame. But Chávez Jr is legit. He won the WBC middleweight title in 2011 and defended it three times, before getting a shot at the WBC light heavyweight belt in 2015. The Mexican has struggled to maintain consistency since, but he did take superstar Canelo Álvarez the distance, and he’s on the up after a win over Uriah Hall in his last fight.
Who’s expected to win?
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For an opinion, we go to no less an authority than former three-weight world champion Julio César Chávez Sr. “Jake Paul is young and strong, but he's never faced a fighter like my son,” the legend insisted at a press conference. The 62-year-old dismissed Paul’s success against Tyson, saying, “I would’ve given Mike Tyson a better fight. He didn’t throw one punch.”
“Put both the Chavezs in there, I‘ll whoop Sr and Jr in the same night,” was Paul’s retort. When asked what he was expecting from the fight, Paul said: “A knockout. I’m going to do what Canelo couldn’t do, stopping this man. And you’re going to see Chávez quit, and his dad’s going to be disappointed. And all the Mexican fans are going to join Team Paul.”
Boxer turned pundit Paulie Malignaggi says, “This is a competitive fight… I thought Jake was improving for a little while, but I think for a fight or two, he’s regressed. But I still think it’s competitive. [Chávez] has lost to Anderson Silva, so I wouldn’t be surprised if he loses to Jake.”
Former UFC champ Anderson Silva, the only man to have fought both, favours Chávez according to his son Gabriel. “It all depends on which Chávez we’re going to get on the night, if he’s going to be focused. A guy like Jake might not have it to put him out… It’s going to be a good fight but my dad is definitely going for Chávez.”
If you ask the bookmakers, who usually have a good idea, they definitely agree with Paul and have made him a heavy odds-on favourite to win the fight.
What’s likely to happen next?
“This is what I came here to do: to become world champion and create one of the greatest sports stories the world has ever seen,” Paul says. “This is prize fighting, so I’m giving the fans what they want with every single fight by taking on tougher opponents.”
In his sights is WBA and WBO cruiserweight champion Gilberto “Zurdo” Ramírez, who is fighting Yuniel Dorticos on the undercard of the Paul-Chávez headliner. The champ believes Paul isn’t ready yet. “Jake Paul is a hard worker and has generated more success for himself than most professional fighters," Ramírez says. “It’s been impressive to watch, but I do believe he knows to stay away from a real fighter like myself. All talk is cheap. But Jake Paul knows he should plan a funeral if he commits to a fight against me."
Paul says his options are almost endless, saying “there’s 100 people that want to fight me… I got Canelo, Gervonta [Davis], Anthony Joshua, Badou [Jack], Zurdo, Tommy Fury, KSI, the list keeps on going. We’ll see when the negotiations come.”
If Chávez wins? At 39, he might still have a shot at a world title. But one thing’s for sure: win or lose, Jake Paul is here for a long time, not a good time. He’s not going anywhere. Here’s how the fighters measure up.
When is Jake Paul v Julio César Chávez Jr on TV?
You can see this fight on DAZN with Virgin Media from 1am on Sunday 29 June 2025 (ie late Saturday night). It’s available to order from 10am on Tuesday 24 June and costs £24.99. And even better, this payment will also entitle you to a month‘s subscription to DAZN, allowing you to enjoy a month of superb sporting action on DAZN.
The event cannot be recorded and will be repeated on Sunday 29 June at 10am and 4pm (last playout).
The purchase will include access to the fight and will also entitle you to redeem one month’s access to DAZN – please see details at point of purchase. Promotion is owned and operated by DAZN.
How can I order the fight?
To watch this event, you must have a TiVo® box, Virgin TV V6 box (powered by TiVo®), a Virgin TV 360 box or Stream box.
Customers with our TiVo® and V6 boxes: Go to Home > On Demand > Live Events. Press the red button then choose the event and follow the instructions on screen. A TV PIN may not be required. To view your booking, once purchased, go to On Demand > Live Events > Event Bookings.
Customers with our Virgin TV 360 or Stream boxes: Go to Home > Pay Per View events rail. Press OK, then choose the event and follow the instructions on screen. A TV PIN may not be required. To view your booking, once purchased, go to Home > Pay Per View events rail.
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Terms & Conditions
A TV PIN will be required on TiVo® or Virgin TV 360 unless you have changed or make changes to the settings on your box. If you would like to disable the PPV pin prompt on TiVo, complete the following setting changes via your remote: go to Settings > Purchase Controls and ensure the setting is set to “allow purchases without a PIN”. This will disable all PIN prompts for content that does not conflict with the regulatory watershed requirements.
This event CANNOT be recorded and is NOT available to view/purchase via Liberate boxes. Repeats are free once you’ve ordered the event. If you miss the event, you can buy the repeats for the same price. The event is repeated on Sunday 29 June at 10am and 4pm (last playout). The event can be watched either live or On Demand during its repeat window.
To check the event has been purchased, TiVo® and V6 customers should go to Home > On Demand > Live Events. The event will be there with a status of “booked”. Virgin TV 360 and Stream customers should go to Home > Saved > Rentals. The event will be there.
If the fight card is changed after the event has been purchased, an equivalent match may be provided by the broadcaster. In this case, no refund would be provided. If the broadcaster cancels the event, then refunds can be applied.
Once a customer purchases the event, it is policy that refunds are not made unless there is a technical fault or the event is cancelled. It is useful for the customer to know that repeats take place on the following day for all Live Events in case they can’t make the time of the actual event.
TiVo® and V6 customers can view the event on a second TiVo® or V6 box associated with the account without additional purchase. Please note where the second box is a non TiVo® or V6 box it will not be viewable on that box. Once selected, it correctly displays “Purchased” and “View Now”. When “View Now” is selected, it then moves to “Event Bookings”.
Virgin TV 360 customers can view the event on a second Virgin TV 360 box associated with the account without additional purchase. Please note where the second box is a non Virgin TV 360 box it will not be viewable on that box. Customers should go to Home > Saved > Rentals. The event will be there.
DAZN Subscription
Virgin Media will bear responsibility for Virgin Media customers’ transaction for and access to the pay-per-view event. Virgin Media bears no obligations or liability to assist either in communication to customers, redemption, or onward customer support for the one-month subscription of DAZN. Sign-up and terms and conditions will be managed by DAZN. Customers will be able to redeem their one-month DAZN subscription within the linear pay-per-view feed delivered to Virgin Media (during the live transmission and repeat windows only).
If a Virgin Media customer purchases the Pay Per View Event on the Virgin Media Entertainment Service via their device, a QR code graphic and URL link (DAZN.com/access-code) will be included in the linear Pay Per View Event feed delivered to Virgin Media (during the Live Transmission Schedule and Repeat Transmission Schedule). When they scan the QR code, they are taken to a landing web page (DAZN.com/access-code) which includes instructions on how to redeem one-month access to DAZN. One week (approximately) after the Pay Per View Event, DAZN will dispatch the unique gift code to the customer to enable them to redeem the one-month access. Find more information here.
