Julian Rodriguez promised Jake Paul that Avious Griffin’s promoter will know his name after Saturday night.

Rodriguez ripped Griffin for having a deceiving, padded record (17-0, 16 KOs) and questioned the welterweight prospect’s readiness for their 10-round fight on the Paul-Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. undercard at Honda Center in Anaheim, California. Griffin’s opponent also agitated Paul during a press conference Thursday iwhen he referred to him as a social media influencer.

“You got a big mouth,” Rodriguez told Griffin. “Shut your mouth. You got a big mouth for nothing. … Don’t let Mr. Tik Tok blow your head up.”

The polarizing Paul responded as one might expect.

“My boy’s fittin’ to beat your ass,” he yelled at Rodriguez. “And then I’m gonna put it on Tik Tok. I’m gonna put you on Tik Tok, in front of all my viewers getting [expletive] slept by this GOAT right here, future GOAT, Avious Griffin.”

Paul poked at Rodriguez again by adding, “I’m the promoter and I don’t even know your name.”

Rodriguez, 30, expected to make a bigger name for himself in boxing by now. The Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey, native won a national Golden Gloves title in 2013 and signed a promotional contract with Bob Arum’s Top Rank Inc.

Injuries, inactivity and his lone loss, a technical-knockout to former two-division champion Jose Pedraza, prohibited Rodriguez (23-1, 14 KOs) from meeting expectations. He intends to rejuvenate his career by beating Griffin, who has defeated a largely low level of opposition.

“I’m coming with everything on Saturday,” Rodriguez said. “This is a different level for him. He’s not ready for this level. I know exactly what I see and I’m gonna exploit all this man’s power, all that, on Saturday night.”

The 6-foot Griffin, who stands approximately four inches taller than Rodriguez, is a 9-1 favorite to win, according to DraftKings. He still feels his nickname, “Tha Underdog,” is appropriate.

“It just comes from a lifestyle,” Griffin said. “Coming from where I come from, Chattanooga, Tennessee, small neighborhood called North Brainerd, a lotta people don’t make it out. A lotta people don’t make it this far — on stage with Jake Paul, amongst these type of boxers, high level, so that just come from striving off doubt, being doubted and still rising to the occasion every time.”

Griffin, 31, has been much more active in recent years than Rodriguez, who has fought only once since March 2023.

Griffin has won seven fights, all by knockout, during that span. He will take a 10-fight knockout streak into his debut with Paul’s promotional company, which signed Griffin in May.

“He supposed to be a tough opponent on paper, but I done overcame way more tougher things in life,” Griffin said. “I done faced murder charges and was innocent … all type of things like that. So, a guy with [a] pair of gloves on, he ain’t talking about [expletive].”

Griffin was incarcerated for 11 months after a wrongful murder conviction in 2017. He was exonerated in 2020, but he didn’t fight for almost four years until 2021.

“I know you’re trying to climb back to the top,” Griffin told Rodriguez. “You let [Pedraza] touch you up, but it ain’t gonna happen this Saturday. You got a 60 percent chance of making it out that ring, boy.”

Griffin-Rodriguez will be the second of five undercard contests streamed by DAZN Pay-Per-View. The event will start at 8 p.m. ET and costs $59.99 in the United States.