Dana White explains why Jake Paul vs Mike Tyson isn\u2019t a \u201cserious\u201d fight Instagram\/JakePaul\/MikeTysonUFC President Dana White doesn\u2019t think Jake Paul vs Mike Tyson is a very \u201cserious\u201d fight for one big reason. During an appearance on Pound 4 Pound with Kamura Usman, White chimed in about Paul\u2019s next bout against Mike Tyson scheduled for July 20 in Netflix\u2019s first-ever live boxing event. According to Dana, Jake Paul\u2019s reason for fighting \u2018Iron\u2019 Mike Tyson all comes down to the money, since Tyson is serving as a draw to get eyeballs on the boxing match. \u201cI love Mike, and I hate talking about him because he always get mad at me when I talk about this stuff, but when the fight happens he\u2019ll be 58-years-old. There will be a 31 year age difference,\u201d White explained. The UFC President further noted that when Paul did fight someone his age, he ended up being handed the only loss of his career via split decision to Tommy Fury. (Segment begins at 41:50) \u201cIf he beats Mike Tyson, he\u2019s gonna fight Clint Eastwood next,\u201d White joked. \u201cClint Eastwood\u2019s 93-years-old.\u201d Usman went on to try to argue that fighters \u201calways have a round left,\u201d but noted that Jake Paul isn\u2019t doing his best to be taken seriously as a fighter. White was quick to interrupt, claiming that \u2018The Problem Child\u2019 doesn\u2019t have a desire to do so. \u201cHe doesn\u2019t [want to be taken seriously]. What Jake wants is Jake wants to make money. The people that follow Jake Paul don\u2019t buy Jake Paul\u2019s fights so Jake Paul has to fight people who can actually sell pay-per-views,\u201d he added. Jake Paul and Dana White are no strangers to each other, with the influencer frequently feuding with UFC boss over his demands for increased fighter pay. So far, Paul has yet to respond to Dana\u2019s criticisms, but it\u2019s unlikely that the influencer will remain silent on his concerns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dana White explains why Jake Paul vs Mike Tyson isn\u2019t a \u201cserious\u201d fight Instagram\/JakePaul\/MikeTysonUFC President Dana White doesn\u2019t think Jake Paul vs Mike Tyson is a very \u201cserious\u201d fight for one big reason. During an appearance on Pound 4 Pound with Kamura Usman, White chimed in about Paul\u2019s next bout against Mike Tyson scheduled for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}