Jake Paul vs Julio Cesar Chavez Jr live: Start time, undercard, fight updates and results

Both fighters are a bit more tentative in this round. They may have gassed themselves out a little in round 8.

Rodriguez lands on Griffin’s chin and his opponent stumbles around.

Griffin is hurt but Rodriguez is worried about the counter punch and decides not to pursue his attack.

A couple of jabs for Griffin keeps Rodriguez at distance. There’s blood coming from his nose, Rodriguez isn’t keen to push his advantage.

10 seconds to go and Griffin launches a combo but misses more punches than he lands.

Down! Griffin’s corner tells he to go after his opponent and he lands a straight right which drops Rodriguez to the canvas.

Rodriguez isn’t massively hurt but he suffers a knockdown which could be crucial in these closing stages.

Rodriguez manages to get up and force Griffin on the back foot. Both men at throwing hands and seem to believe they need to land more to win this fight.

Rodriguez has bossed this fight so far but Griffin scored a fine left hook in the fourth round to keep him in check.

Rodriguez is told to keep behind his double jab and then let his hands go while in the corner.

It’s been a solid fight for him so far and he should be able to control it from here.

We join the action with the preliminary fights as Avious Griffin and Julian Rodriguez end their fourth of ten rounds.

There are three more fights to come before the main event and we’ll have full coverage of them all. Here’s the rest of the card for this evening:

Jake Paul vs Julio Cesar Chavez Jr (cruiserweight)

Gilberto “Zurdo” Ramirez (C) vs Yuniel Dorticos (WBA and WBO cruiserweight titles)

Avious Griffin vs Julian Rodriguez (welterweight)

Over to Michael Jones, who’s got you covered with live updates from the Paul vs Chavez Jr undercard now!

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The young American made light work of Farmer, dropping him twice en route to a rapid victory.

If Gilberto “Zurdo” Ramirez can retain his cruiserweight titles against Yuniel Dorticos tonight, he may finally set up a unification bout with Jai Opetaia.

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Chavez Jr has been less forthcoming than Paul with details about his preparations.

There is one clip from last month showing Chavez Jr hitting a circuit of hurdles, sled pushes, Versaclimber intervals, slam ball chest throws and battle ropes, dressed in head-to-toe sweats. But beyond this, training insights have been few and far between.

A recent video with DAZN captures him working through some footwork techniques, with coach Jorge Capetillo revealing his “conditioning is very well [sic] – he’s been doing between 10 and 12 rounds [in training] so I feel comfortable he will put in a great performance”. After this, Chavez Jr heads home to put his feet up on the sofa while watching TV with his team.

As he does this, he is zipped into a pair of inflating boots that rise up to his hips. So what are these odd-looking contraptions, and how could they help Chavez Jr’s training efforts?

Paul’s journey to professional boxing is far from conventional. While his pedigree in the sport is regularly debated online, his work ethic rarely is.

His ambitions are equally unambiguous, with the 28-year-old telling DAZN: “The main goal now is to get a belt, that’s the only thing I haven’t accomplished in the sport of boxing. I’ve won knockout of the year, [I won the] most-viewed fight ever, so for me the only thing that’s left is to become world champion.”

To achieve this, Paul’s strength and conditioning coach and Let’s Build Champions author Larry Wade has been subjecting the star to an intense pre-fight training camp containing double training days, ‘brutal’ track sessions and 1,000-rep abs workouts.

This is what a week in the life of a YouTuber-turned-professional boxer with world-topping aspirations looks like: