Dana White counteroffers Jake Paul\u2019s Jorge Masvidal UFC bet: \u201cFight Anderson Silva\u201d Amanda Wescott\/SHOWTIME\/Instagram\/spiderandersonsilvaUFC boss Dana White has rejected a massive fight wager from YouTuber Jake Paul that would have seen him duke it out with Jorge Masvidal while Amanda Serrano fought Amanda Nunes. Jake Paul has taken the boxing world by storm in recent months, earning victories against mixed martial artists Ben Askren and Tyron Woodley. In his rise to combat sports stardom, he has been a constant pain for Dana White, actively challenging fighters under contract with UFC and taking issue with MMA fighter pay. After making White an offer to let Masvidal fight him under the condition that, if he lost, he would stop challenging UFC talent, the internet was curious to see what Dana\u2019s response would be. Unfortunately for Paul, it wasn\u2019t exactly what he had in mind. In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, White rejected the offer and instead suggested that Paul fight \u201csomeone his own size,\u201d with that someone being \u2018The Spider,\u2019 Anderson Silva. Dana White rejects Jake Paul\u2019s Masvidal-Nunes bet \u201cMasvidal\u2019s 170 pounds. [Jake] likes 170-pounders. Go fight somebody your own size. Anderson Silva\u2019s not under contract, he\u2019s 46 years old; that\u2019s the age group you love to fight. And he\u2019s your size and he\u2019s actually winning fights,\u201d White blasted. According to Dana, both Jake and his brother Logan have a tendency of fighting \u201cwashed up older guys\u201d to secure easy wins, although Logan\u2019s fight against Floyd Mayweather ended in a draw due to exhibition rules. \u201cAnderson Silva has actually been boxing, he\u2019s won some fights, he\u2019s 46 years old, and he\u2019s in your weight class. There you go. That\u2019s a no-brainer. Fight Anderson Silva,\u201d he added. Plus, Dana added, a fight between Paul and Silva could do big numbers, calling it a \u201cviable\u201d fight. Amusingly though, White did have some strong praise for Paul, saying that The Problem Child should be paid more by Showtime. \u201cShowtime needs f**king Jake Paul. Their f**king fights are pulling 70K viewers for Christ\u2019s sake. I could take a picture of my fucking big toe and put it on Instagram and more would see that than a Showtime fight,\u201d he claimed. \u201cSo whatever they\u2019re f**king paying him, it\u2019s probably not enough. They probably need to pay him more. They need that f**king guy.\u201d Will Jake Paul fight Anderson Silva? As for a fight against Anderson Silva, while the 46-year-old has expressed interest in fighting either of the Paul bros, Jake has said that the fight would be \u201close-lose\u201d for him. \u201cIf I was to fight Anderson Silva, everyone would just be like \u2018oh it\u2019s just another old guy\u2019 when I beat him, so it\u2019s kinda like a lose-lose situation,\u201d he said on MMA Fight Hour with Ariel Helwani. That said, The Spider is still an option and is on a shortlist of fighters he could be duking it out with next. Only time will tell if we end up getting a fight between Jake and Silva, but it seems like a date with Jorge Masvidal is off the table for the time being.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dana White counteroffers Jake Paul\u2019s Jorge Masvidal UFC bet: \u201cFight Anderson Silva\u201d Amanda Wescott\/SHOWTIME\/Instagram\/spiderandersonsilvaUFC boss Dana White has rejected a massive fight wager from YouTuber Jake Paul that would have seen him duke it out with Jorge Masvidal while Amanda Serrano fought Amanda Nunes. Jake Paul has taken the boxing world by storm in recent […]<\/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-46489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46489","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=46489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}