Whether fans like it or not, Jake Paul is now undoubtedly one of the biggest stars in the sport.
The YouTuber-turned-boxer is coming off a controversial fight against 58-year-old former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson. The contest was streamed to an estimated 100million viewers on Netflix but failed to live up to the hype with Tyson looking every bit his age, allowing Paul to coast to a wide points victory.
Attention now turns to who the 27-year-old will face next with plenty of bonafide world champions offering to give the novice pro a shot at their title. The list includes the likes of light-heavyweight champion Artur Beterbiev, cruiserweight champion Gilberto ‘Zurdo’ Ramírez and even IBF heavyweight champion Daniel Dubois.
One fighter who has long been linked with a fight against the brash American is all time great and former five-weight world champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. Mayweather famously fought Paul’s brother Logan in an exhibition bout back in 2021, due to it not being a professional fight no winner was announced after it went the full eight rounds.
In a resurfaced interview with TMZ about Paul’s boxing ability, ‘Money’ says he should stick to facing MMA fighters and warned it won’t end well for him if he takes on real boxers.
“Jake Paul, as of right now for what he’s doing it’s good for what he’s doing, but when it’s time to fight an actual real fighter, it’s gonna be bad! But one think I like about him, one thing I do is that he’s selling it and he’s making good money and he’s entertaining, I like that.
As long as he continues to fight MMA guys ant YouTubers then he’s going to continue to look good and shine, but once he fights a real fighter, a real fighter that can really fight, then it’s not going to be that good.”
On a potential return to professional boxing to face Paul, Mayweather admitted he would be willing to give up a massive weight disadvantage to make the fight happen.
“Paul was doing a sit down on a podcast one time and he said ‘I don’t want to do an exhibition against Floyd Mayweather’, he said ‘I’m only doing real fights’. Now, of course I can’t get up that high in weight but I’ll fight him at the weight that I’m at.”
Paul recently revealed that Tommy Fury turned down $8million to rematch him on Netflix.
