Jake Paul has come a great distance from his boxing debut as he prepares to face a former world champion.
The YouTuber has switched seamlessly to skilled boxing and has had quite a few high-profile fights over the previous couple of years.
Jake Paul famously beat Mike Tyson in his final bout, and took on prime fighters like Tommy Fury and Nate Diaz in big-money fights too.
Paul’s next fight is against Julio Cesar Chavez Jr, which is a far cry from him being lined in blood when preventing a fellow YouTube star in his first battle.
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Jake Paul was bloodied by Deji in his novice boxing debut
Again in 2018, Paul was a part of one of many first YouTuber boxing occasions.
The novice boxing occasion amassed 1.3 million PPV buys from followers determined to see Paul’s brother, Logan Paul, battle KSI in a large YouTube vs. YouTuber battle.
Nevertheless, their brothers had been preventing within the co-main occasion. The youthful Paul took on Deji, with each males preventing within the boxing ring for the primary time.
The dearth of expertise confirmed within the battle. What began out as a tentative and nervous affair devolved right into a wild brawl, with little or no ring IQ on present.
A giant shot within the first spherical rocked Paul, and blood started flowing from his nostril for the rest of the battle. His face was lined in claret from the center of the spherical, and Deji threatened to beat his a lot bigger opponent on this mismatch.
The remainder of the battle was very backwards and forwards, though the facility, accuracy, and conditioning helped him to get on prime and keep there.
It took till the fifth spherical earlier than the battle lastly completed. A flurry of punches pushed Deji into the nook earlier than his trainers had seen sufficient, falling by the wayside and awarding Paul a victory on his debut.
Jake Paul has come a great distance since his debut win
After successful his novice debut with a bloody nostril, Paul improved extremely rapidly when he moved into skilled preventing.
Simply 4 years after his win over Deji, the YouTube star racked up wins over Tyron Woodley, Ben Askren, and Anderson Silva as he sought to show his boxing credentials.
Over the following few years, Paul added names like Diaz and Tyson to his listing of opponents. Fury is the one individual to have overwhelmed the American, who continues to impress each time he steps into the ring.
Paul’s subsequent bout is on June 27, when he takes on former World Middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.
That is anticipated to be the Mexican’s closing battle, after he turned down a chance to face KSI to tackle Paul within the big-money bout.
