Brendan Schaub explains why Jake Paul needs to fight Anderson Silva in boxing return YouTube: Schaub Show\/Jake PaulFormer UFC contender Brendan Schaub believes Jake Paul vs Anderson Silva is the fight to make for the YouTuber\u2019s return as it\u2019ll earn him more respect with his fellow fighters. After taking a short break from in-ring action, Jake Paul is strapping on the gloves and returning to boxing in August against a yet-to-be-named opponent. Plenty of rumors have swirled about who Jake may be facing, with one of the interesting being Anderson \u2018The Spider\u2019 Silva. The former UFC champion has moved into boxing in recent months, beating Julio Cesar Chavez Jr on his way to picking up a 3-1 record. While Jake was against the fight at first, he\u2019s softened his stance somewhat, and the Brazillian is open to fighting the YouTuber-turned-boxer. On top of that Brendan Schaub believes that if Jake wants the respect of his peers, it\u2019s the fight for him to take next. Brendan touched on the possibility of a Jake vs Anderson fight during episode 286 of The Schaub Show, noting that he\u2019s urged the YouTuber to call out \u2018The Spider\u2019 before. \u201cI told him, you going after Bisping is a bad look, he has one eye. He\u2019s an analyst now. I know you want a former champion but that\u2019s a bad look. If you want the respect, even though you\u2019re probably going to lose, you\u2019re going to get so much more respect calling out Anderson Silva,\u201d he said. The former UFC contender noted that Silva is currently active in boxing, which gives him a leg up, and has proven himself in the ring by defeating Julio Cesar Chavez Jr, which would ultimately help Jake\u2019s case if he could beat \u2018The Spider\u2019. \u201cGo for him, you might lose, but it\u2019s worth it dude. If you just have a good showing, you\u2019re going to get all the respect. In the MMA community, you beat Anderson Silva, I have no criticism.\u201d Timestamp of 1:30:00 Schaub further noted that while Jake wants to fight a \u2018real boxer\u2019, Anderson would tick that box more than Tommy Fury, seeing as Fury is yet to accomplish much in the ring. \u201cIf you\u2019re Jake, you can knock out Tommy Fury, that\u2019s not going to get respect,\u201d he continued. \u201cMost people, including myself, only know him from Love Island. He\u2019s a reality show star, his brother just happens to be the best heavyweight of all time.\u201d As noted, nobody knows who Jake will be fighting in August, but there are plenty of interesting options out there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Brendan Schaub explains why Jake Paul needs to fight Anderson Silva in boxing return YouTube: Schaub Show\/Jake PaulFormer UFC contender Brendan Schaub believes Jake Paul vs Anderson Silva is the fight to make for the YouTuber\u2019s return as it\u2019ll earn him more respect with his fellow fighters. After taking a short break from in-ring action, […]<\/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-45179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45179","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=45179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}