YouTuber-turned-boxer Paul has been pushing for fights with a number of the UFC’s largest stars, together with Usman, however is not certain that he warrants such a large payout
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Jake Paul has laughed off solutions Kamaru Usman could possibly be paid $100million to struggle him, saying that the UFC welterweight champion is not price that type of cash.
YouTuber-turned-boxer Paul has been calling out the entire UFC’s high stars, together with Usman, since his knockout win over Nate Robinson in November of 2020. However the Nigerian stated earlier this month that he would wish to paid an enormous sum to get within the ring with the Ohio native, and implied that his pay-per-view occasions weren’t large attracts.
Paul has already picked up brutal knockout wins over two former MMA champions in Ben Askren and Tyron Woodley, and has established himself as a large title in fight sports activities. However Usman believes that he is not the foremost draw he claims to be, and that he would wish huge cash to conform to a struggle.
The social media star stated throughout an look on The Journey podcast : “Usman’s not price $100m, he is like a $3-5million sort of man who’s owned by Dana. Each time he will get set free of the contract, let’s make it occur, simple cash.
“I already embarrassed Dana’s firm by taking out Ben Askren and Tyron Woodley and I do not assume he needs that. It could be an excessive amount of of a threat for him to let one in all his fighters lose to me.”
Usman had beforehand indicated that Paul’s huge social media following over round 60million is not equating to PPV buys. “These guys, they making quite a lot of noise,” Usman stated throughout an interview on Membership Shay Shay. “That’s good. They received the YouTubers, and so they received the brand new era, these new youngsters concerned and watching them. That’s tremendous.
“However they don’t equate to {dollars}. It’s not them – Jake Paul, he says, ‘we’re doing these numbers’. You may add up each struggle Jake Paul has had and their pay-per-view numbers weren’t greater than what I did in my final struggle.
“They will say no matter they need to say. He can say this or that. Write me a examine for $100M Jake Paul, I’ll be there to kick your a** subsequent week.”
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And Paul likened the doable struggle to the well-known Floyd Mayweather vs Conor McGregor match-up that occurred in 2017. The second-largest PPV viewers in historical past tuned in to observe the legendary boxer and MMA fighter sq. off, with McGregor dropping by TKO, however profitable the respect of world audiences.
However he feels it might be totally different for Usman to struggle him and lose, given the pair’s relative standings within the worlds on fight sports activities. “Conor McGregor dropping to Floyd Mayweather is a win-win,” Paul defined. “All of them earn a living after which he misplaced to the most effective boxers ever.
“However Kamaru Usman, one of many pound-for-pound greatest within the UFC dropping to me could be very unhealthy for his or her firm, so I feel he is making an attempt to guard that. Nevertheless, over the subsequent two-three years my numbers are going to be so plain that he most likely will simply should make a few of these fights occur.”
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