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In his quest to call out every major well-known one who has ever fought in UFC, Jake Paul fair as of late space his sights on dilapidated heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier.
Exhibiting on the IMPAULSIVE podcast with his brother Logan Paul (h/t Jed Meshew of MMAFighting.com), Jake had this to exclaim in accordance with Cormier’s comments concerning the controversial YouTube well-known person’s steal over Ben Askren in a boxing match on Saturday night:
“Daniel Cormier, (mimicking) ‘That’s my boy Ben, he’s gonna beat Jake, he pushed him in the face so he’s gonna steal now, chirp, chirp, chirp.’ I knock him out and he’s on Twitter, ‘Ben, are you extreme, bro, you went down luxuriate in that? Ben are you kidding me? Ben, I’m in a position to’t imagine you doubtlessly did that to the MMA community.’ Shut the f–okay up b—h. I will beat the f–okay out of your elephantine ass too, excellent luxuriate in Stipe did. Cleveland s–t. I swear to God, I will beat the f–okay out of Daniel Cormier.”
After Cormier expressed his disappointment with how Askren conducted, Paul replied on Twitter by calling him “elephantine boy” and challenged him to a fight.
On the DC & Helwani display cloak on ESPN (h/t Scott Christ of Imperfect Left Hook), Cormier talked about he would no longer rob up Paul on the anxiety because he would not rob to “punch down” to contaminated opponents.
“I’m no longer gonna punch all the vogue down to about a kid that is on YouTube that is, luxuriate in, ‘Fight me!’ Like, why? What contain you accomplished to safe the dazzling to fight me? So, no, or no longer it’s foolish and uninteresting,” Cormier talked about. “But I would luxuriate in him to fight Tyron. I would rob to peep him fight somebody extra precise. Don’t fight Ben Askren at 190, bloated.”
Paul knocked out Askren in the major spherical for his third consecutive steal as a reputable boxer. He has made a dependancy of calling out well-known person warring parties who can abet him generate headlines, including dilapidated UFC featherweight and light-weight-weight champion Conor McGregor.
As a businessman, Paul’s arrive appears to be working with audiences. MMA Combating’s Damon Martin illustrious early estimates counsel Saturday’s match generated extra than 1 million pay-per-peep buys.
