September 19, 2024 6:00 pm ET
If Jake Paul wants a debut opponent in combined martial arts, a well-recognized foe is prepared to step up.
Paul intends to make his MMA debut after partnering with PFL. CEO Peter Murray expects “The Problem Child” to enter the cage in 2025.
Paul’s lone loss in boxing got here by cut up determination to Tommy Fury in February 2023. Fury spent a while coaching MMA with UFC interim heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall and would love nothing greater than to beat Paul in MMA, too.
“Jake Paul’s within the PFL, isn’t he? I’m going to smash his face in after I get good at MMA,” Fury mentioned on his YouTube channel. “I’ll beat him in boxing and the cage. Large ineffective prick. I reckon a year-and-a-half to 2 years of coaching till I’ll beat him in a battle, no drawback, within the cage.
“He’s acquired the funds, he’s acquired the most effective trainers on the earth, he’s acquired the most effective sparring on the earth. So he’s doing all proper. However no match for me. I swear to you, subsequent time I battle him, I’ll knock him out. In MMA, I simply need to give him a giant fats (knee). All elbows, no fists.” Since dropping to Fury within the ring, Paul (10-1) rebounded with 4 consecutive wins, most recently a TKO of Mike Perry in July. He takes on 58-year-old boxing legend Mike Tyson (50-6-2) on Nov. 15 at AT&T Stadium in Dallas.
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