Social media star and professional boxer Jake Paul (5-0, 4 KOs) turned to boxing legend Floyd Mayweather Jr., urging him to stop looking for excuses not to have a mega-profitable fight with him.
Paul, who faces MMA legend Anderson Silva on October 29, believes Mayweather is destroying his legacy by holding exhibition fights against “no-names”.
“So, ladies and gentlemen, imagine this: it is 2022. Floyd Mayweather is destroying his legacy by entering the ring against no-names, wasting his fans’ money and time,” Paul wrote on social media. “He doesn’t even know the names of the guys he fights, and then decides to fight an influencer to earn extra money to pay his bills.”
“Floyd Mayweather says he will only fight Jake Paul if he comes down to his weight, 63.5kg or something. I can’t believe this is even happening in the world. I don’t believe this is real,” Jake continues. – Floyd, I will fight you, and you know very well that this is one of the biggest fights that can be organized in boxing. I weigh 79.4 kg, you weigh 72.6 kg. We can arrange it by making a couple of hundred million dollars.”
“What will be your excuse? You didn’t care how much my brother weighed (Logan Paul, whom Mayweather boxed in the summer of 2021, approx. vRINGe). So why do you care how much I weigh? Isn’t it because you know what’s going to happen. I want to say: “I will take your zero from you,” predicts Paul. “But you will be looking for a way to wind around the bush. You said about me: “As soon as he fights with a professional fighter, he will be destroyed.” So why don’t you become that professional fighter yourself – the best in history? I can’t fucking understand what’s going on guys.”
Meanwhile, Hearn wants to sue Jake Paul for libel – they threaten a 100 million lawsuit.