{"id":45240,"date":"2025-01-28T17:01:56","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T17:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/brother-from-jussie-smollett-hoax-challenges-jake-paul-to-real-fight-dexerto\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T17:01:56","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T17:01:56","slug":"brother-from-jussie-smollett-hoax-challenges-jake-paul-to-real-fight-dexerto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/brother-from-jussie-smollett-hoax-challenges-jake-paul-to-real-fight-dexerto\/","title":{"rendered":"Brother from Jussie Smollett hoax challenges Jake Paul to \u201creal fight\u201d &#8211; Dexerto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brother from Jussie Smollett hoax challenges Jake Paul to \u201creal fight\u201d TMZSPORTS\/INSTAGRAM: JAKEPAULBola Osundairo, one of the brothers who assisted Jussie Smollett in his hate crime hoax, has challenged Jake Paul to a boxing match. Paul\u2019s fight with Hasim Rahman Jr. was recently canceled, over apparent concerns that Rahman could not make the agreed upon weight for the bout. That\u2019s the third fight cancellation the Problem Child has had to face over the past 12 months. The previous two both involved Tommy Fury. Luckily for Paul, he has already received an offer from a man ready to take Rahman\u2019s place. According to TMZ Sports, Osundairo is ready to fight Paul at Madison Square Garden, as was originally scheduled. Bola Osundairo\u2019s challenge to Jake Paul \u201cDo not cancel that fight Jake Paul. Fight me instead. I am ready to fight this Saturday,\u201d Osundairo said on Monday. He continued: \u201cI\u2019m ready to fight. I\u2019m better than Hasim Rahman Jr., or Tommy Fury. I\u2019m actually ranked higher than Tommy Fury and he has 8 pro fights, and I have 2 pro fights. He\u2019s ranked 340, I\u2019m ranked 193.\u201d Osundairo is known to many as one of the brothers involved in the controversial Jussie Smollett hate crime hoax, and he believes that his high-profile involvement could help sell the fight. \u201cPeople know of me\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m one of the Nigerian brothers involved in the Jussie case, the Jussie Smollett case. So it will sell, this fight will sell. People know me more than Hasim Rahman Jr. Nobody knows him outside of boxing.\u201d He also believes he\u2019s a superior fighter to both Rahman Jr. and Fury. \u201cI\u2019m actually ranked higher than Tommy Fury and he has 8 pro fights, and I have 2 pro fights. He\u2019s ranked 340, I\u2019m ranked 193\u201d he said. The 2-0 pro fighter concluded with a shot at Paul: \u201cThis will be a real fight. This won\u2019t be like the Jussie Smollett fight. This will be a real actual beatdown, Jake Paul. So after I beat you up, your name\u2019s gonna change to Jackie Paulette.\u201d Paul has yet to respond to Osundairo\u2019s challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brother from Jussie Smollett hoax challenges Jake Paul to \u201creal fight\u201d TMZSPORTS\/INSTAGRAM: JAKEPAULBola Osundairo, one of the brothers who assisted Jussie Smollett in his hate crime hoax, has challenged Jake Paul to a boxing match. Paul\u2019s fight with Hasim Rahman Jr. was recently canceled, over apparent concerns that Rahman could not make the agreed upon [&hellip;]<\/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-45240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45240","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=45240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}