Dana White explains why he\u2019ll never work with Jake Paul on a fight Wikimedia commons: Andrius Petrucenia\/YouTube: Jake PaulUFC President Dana White has explained why he\u2019d never do business with Jake Paul as the YouTube star continues to make waves in combat sports, but he\u2019s also not buying the result of the Ben Askren fight. Jake Paul, and his brother Logan, might be all about boxing, but they\u2019ve managed to become tangled with the Dana White. The UFC President has spoken out about the Paul brothers\u2019 involvement with boxing, praising them for getting into the ring, but also criticizing the fights and the claims made about the pay-per-views they\u2019ve sold. He\u2019s gone as far as threatening Jake with legal action for repeatedly calling out UFC fighters and has now dismissed claims that he\u2019ll ever work with the YouTuber on a fight card. Speaking to ESPN ahead of UFC 262, White was quizzed on if he had any interest in working with Jake Paul and if he\u2019d be willing to give a fighter the green light to jump into the boxing ring. \u201cFirst of all, I would never do business with those guys, just no. It\u2019s not what we do,\u201d White said, talking about a potential crossover. \u201cI\u2019m not gonna f**king loan them a guy, for f**king what? There\u2019s no way. You\u2019ve got plenty of f**king goofballs out there that you can muster up to get in there and play these games that these guys are playing. I\u2019m not your guy. Timestamp of 16:45 The UFC President also had serious doubts about the recent bout between Jake and Ben Askren. \u201cI don\u2019t know if I believe the Ben Askren thing. I have a hard time wrapping my head around that,\u201d he said, noting later that it still blows his mind. White isn\u2019t the only one to dismiss the chance of working with the Paul\u2019s. Boxing icon Mike Tyson said he wouldn\u2019t do it as they\u2019re \u201cnice guys\u201d and he\u2019d rather help them out. Even if the Paul\u2019s are making silly money from their venture into the boxing world, it doesn\u2019t seem like White will ever be swayed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dana White explains why he\u2019ll never work with Jake Paul on a fight Wikimedia commons: Andrius Petrucenia\/YouTube: Jake PaulUFC President Dana White has explained why he\u2019d never do business with Jake Paul as the YouTube star continues to make waves in combat sports, but he\u2019s also not buying the result of the Ben Askren fight. […]<\/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-46493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46493","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=46493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}