Dana White reacts to Jake Paul saying he\u2019s the highest-paid athlete under 25 Instagram: danawhite \/ jakepaulUFC president Dana White has responded to YouTuber Jake Paul being described as the highest-paid athlete under 25-years-old, and says he \u201cdoesn\u2019t hate\u201d the influencer-turned-boxer. Jake Paul and Dana White have clashed several times over the past year, with Paul attempting to convince White to let him face off with an active UFC fighter, as well as calling him out over how much his athletes are paid. White even issued a challenge to the influencer to reveal his drug-test results, accusing him of being on steroids \u2013 claims which Paul firmly denied, saying: \u201cI don\u2019t do steroids. I take it as a compliment.\u201d Jake has been hugely successful with his boxing endeavors, and as well as being named one of the highest-earning YouTubers of 2021, he also claimed to be the highest-earning athlete under the age of 25. Dana White responds to Jake Paul payment claims In an appearance on the Dave Portnoy Show, Dana gave his thoughts on Jake\u2019s sporting endeavors, and explained his reaction to the influencer describing himself as the highest-earning athlete under 25. \u201cI don\u2019t hate Jake Paul,\u201d White began. \u201cI\u2019ve dealt with kids like him for most of my career. You know, this is the kid that\u2019s out there and has created some buzz, and he\u2019s trying to make some money. You know what I mean? You can\u2019t fault the kid for that.\u201d (Topic starts at 1:07:53) When asked whether or not he had been surprised by Jake with his boxing career at any point, White added: \u201cThey just came out and said that he\u2019s one of the highest-paid athletes under 25 or something like that. Athletes?\u201d \u201cDo you know how many guys that I know in the gym, and that trainers know in the gym, that if they fought guys 20 years older than them and 20 pounds lighter than them and could create the buzz that this could create? Yeah, they\u2019d be some of the highest-paid athletes under 25 too.\u201d With Paul\u2019s boxing career set to continue, it looks like he will continue to be a hot topic of conversation across the industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dana White reacts to Jake Paul saying he\u2019s the highest-paid athlete under 25 Instagram: danawhite \/ jakepaulUFC president Dana White has responded to YouTuber Jake Paul being described as the highest-paid athlete under 25-years-old, and says he \u201cdoesn\u2019t hate\u201d the influencer-turned-boxer. Jake Paul and Dana White have clashed several times over the past year, 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-46497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46497","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=46497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}