Jake Paul (8-1, 5 KO) vs Ryan Bourland (17-2, 6 KO), cruiserweights, 8 rounds

• Odds: Paul -2500, Bourland +1300 (DraftKings)
• Paul, 27, is not a serious boxing prospect or anything but there are worse boxers on major league shows all the time. Usually in B-side, hopeless "opponent" slots, but still. He's now at the part of his Boxing Career™ where they're finding inactive club guys with "impressive" looking records to put in the ring with him. This actually isn't unusual for a guy with nine pro fights, especially one who lacks any actual upside, but Paul is a celebrity whose every fight is going to have several magnitudes more attention than anything of similar level, and since you can't REALLY take his "journey" seriously, it's hard to not be sort of impatient and prefer to see him fight cooked UFC guys or other unserious gimmicks like Tommy Fury. Like, what is he gaining here? Vital experience on his road to a title fight with Jai Opetaia?
• Bourland, 35, hasn't fought since Sept. 2022 and that's his only fight since Oct. 2018, which was five-and-a-half years ago. He lives in North Dakota. This is very similar on paper to the Andre August "fight."

Jonathan Gonzalez (27-3-1, 14 KO) vs Rene Santiago (12-3, 9 KO), junior flyweights, 12 rounds, for Gonzalez’s WBO title

• Odds: Gonzalez -475, Santiago +325 (DraftKings)
• "Bomba" Gonzalez, 32, hasn't fought since Nov. 2022, notably withdrawing from a planned fight with Kenshiro Teraji about a year ago. He won the WBO 108 lb belt from Elwin Soto in Oct. 2021 and has made two successful defenses against Mark Anthony Barriga and Shokichi Iwata.
• Santiago, 31, is a fellow Puerto Rican who turned pro a decade ago and has only the 15 pro fights, and has never won at world level. He claimed the interim title with a 12th round knockout win over Kevin Vivas last October in Managua and that's why he has his shot. That IS how interim stuff should work, so I can't knock it.
• 105 and 108 can both be a little volatile, so an upset wouldn't be a total shocker here. Santiago can punch, and as good a boxer as Gonzalez is, he's not flawless, and he has been stopped three times.

Pretty big setback, and the scores are fair. But give Wanna credit, he handled this with grace, especially for a 17 year old who's been gassed up pretty heavy.

Wanna Walton (1-0, 1 KO) vs Joshua Torres (0-1-1), super featherweights, 4 rounds

• Javon "Wanna" Walton, 17, was on that HBO "Euphoria" show for perverts, as well as Prime's "Utopia" and Netflix's "The Umbrella Academy," which is why he's moderately famous, but don't get it wrong here, he took up boxing as a little kid and has a legitimate background in the sport, this is the thing he wanted to do from a very young age, he's been competing since he was eight. Which was only nine years ago, but still. Made his pro debut in December.
• Torres, 32, is the grown man he'll be beating up tonight.