Jake Paul backed against UFC champ after wild fight call out YouTube\/DAZNJake Paul has been backed by a former UFC champion who believes in Jake\u2019s abilities to fight current UFC champion Alex Pereira after his wild post-fight call out. After beating \u2018Platinum\u2019 Mike Perry on July 20, Jake Perry quickly set about calling out a few different names. Of course, he made mention of his rescheduled fight with \u2018Iron\u2019 Mike Tyson, but he also had a new name \u2013 Alex \u2018Poatan\u2019 Pereira. Jake even FaceTimed the UFC light heavyweight champion while basking in his win over Perry. Pereira, who is more renowned for his kickboxing skills, has posted some boxing workouts on social media since which has only been used to fuel speculation about the two mixing it up in a massive crossover. Well, former UFC champion Kamaru Usman believes that if the two did meet in the boxing ring, it wouldn\u2019t exactly be an \u201cunwinnable\u201d fight for Jake. \u201cI do believe Alex Pereira can win that fight, but I don\u2019t think it\u2019s an unwinnable fight for Jake Paul,\u201d the Nigerian Nightmare said in his UFC 304 preview. \u201cJake Paul definitely showed some really good things there, being able to stick by the jab. When he was able to commit to the jab, the jab was working. Yes, I know Alex Pereira is very good at doing the thing that gave Mike Perry success in that fight, but Alex Pereira also holds his hands very low.\u201d Timestamp of 9:40 The former UFC Welterweight champion added that Poatan has a \u201cmean hook\u201d but doesn\u2019t have the head movement of a boxer. \u201cIt\u2019s not constantly doing what a boxer\u2019s head movement should be doing. So, I\u2019m not completely counting Jake Paul out,\u201d he added. Usman is also on the same page as Jake when it comes to believing that UFC boss Dana White would put a stop to the crossover fight. \u201cI want all the smoke. But at the end of the day, will Dana let them out? That\u2019s too big of a risk if I could embarrass his No. 1 prized fighter right now,\u201d the \u2018Problem Child\u2019 said in his post-fight press conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jake Paul backed against UFC champ after wild fight call out YouTube\/DAZNJake Paul has been backed by a former UFC champion who believes in Jake\u2019s abilities to fight current UFC champion Alex Pereira after his wild post-fight call out. After beating \u2018Platinum\u2019 Mike Perry on July 20, Jake Perry quickly set about calling out a […]<\/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-21555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21555","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=21555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}