Dana White claims Jake Paul is lying about PPV numbers for Ben Askren fight Triller Fight Club\/YouTube: UFCUFC president Dana White claimed that Jake Paul\u2019s pay-per-view numbers from the Ben Askren fight are \u201cfull of s**t\u201d and not even close to what actually happened. Jake Paul\u2019s dive into the boxing world might have started with YouTubers like Deji and AnEsonGib, but he\u2019s gone wildly beyond that since. He\u2019s beaten Nate Robinson and Ben Askren with some pretty vicious knockouts. The YouTube star has even sights on bigger things too, calling out UFC icon Conor McGregor, but that\u2019s landed him in hot water with Dana White. The longtime UFC president has continually played down the Paul\u2019s venture into the fight game, even threatening Jake with legal action if he continued calling out UFC fighters. Now though, he\u2019s also doubting their pay-per-view numbers. Following the win over Ben Askren, which took over the internet on April 18, Jake claimed that the PPV did 1.3 million buys, resulting in around \u201c$65 million\u201d being generated from the fight. That would make it one of the most successful pay-per-view events in a long time. However, speaking after UFC 261, Dana White wasn\u2019t buying what Jake has been selling. \u201cThe numbers that you\u2019re hearing that they did are full of s**t. They\u2019re full of s**t,\u201d White said following UFC 261 when asked if he\u2019d have any interest in working with Jake. \u201cThey didn\u2019t pull those kinds of numbers at all. Not even f**king close.\u201d While the UFC prez tipped his cap to the YouTuber for making some money, he reiterated his stance on not believing him a few questions later in his press conference. \u201cI don\u2019t believe anything they say. That\u2019s a f**king circus. None of that\u2019s real. You think any of that s**t that\u2019s going on over there is real?\u201d he added, also calling it a \u201cfreakshow.\u201d Timestamp of 6:30 It seems as if any hopes fans might have of seeing the two working together are pretty much dashed, given White also said neither of the Paul brothers would be stepping into the octagon. Though, Jake did get booed for attending UFC 261. Logan has expressed interest in MMA before, seeing as he used to be a wrestler, but Jake hasn\u2019t done so, and looks set to stick with boxing. His eventual response to the UFC president will be interesting, especially if he\u2019s got receipts to disprove his claims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dana White claims Jake Paul is lying about PPV numbers for Ben Askren fight Triller Fight Club\/YouTube: UFCUFC president Dana White claimed that Jake Paul\u2019s pay-per-view numbers from the Ben Askren fight are \u201cfull of s**t\u201d and not even close to what actually happened. Jake Paul\u2019s dive into the boxing world might have started with […]<\/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-46487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46487","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=46487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}