Dana White tells Jake Paul to call out UFC champ instead of Conor McGregor YouTube: ESPN\/Instagram: Jake PaulDana White has questioned why Jake Paul won\u2019t go after UFC champion Israel Adesanya rather than Conor McGregor, given the YouTuber matches up with the \u2018Last Stylebender\u2019 a bit more evenly. As he has made waves in the boxing world, Jake Paul hasn\u2019t been afraid of poking the bear of the MMA community \u2013 regularly going after a handful of different fighters. The YouTuber\u2019s most public beef has been with the pair of Dana White and Conor McGregor, urging Dana to allow the Irish fighting icon to take a fight with him either in the boxing ring or the UFC\u2019s Octagon. Jake has even offered to drop his rivalry with the UFC if he\u2019s allowed to take on the Notorious one inside the cage, but, the UFC president isn\u2019t sure Conor should be his target. Ahead of UFC\u2019s Fight Night in London, White spoke about how Jake and Conor don\u2019t match up physically at all, which makes a fight difficult even in a neutral catchweight bout. \u201cThat kid couldn\u2019t even make 170lbs, that\u2019s how big he is. I mean, he\u2019s calling out these (smaller) guys,\u201d White told ESPN, referring to the massive weight difference between Jake and Conor. \u201cDo you want to see that fight? So why are you even asking me about that, why are we even talking about it?\u201d \u201cThey\u2019re not even remotely close to being in the same weight class. This kid is 6 foot 1, 210 lbs. Conor McGregor is 155 lbs,\u201d the UFC boss continued, noting that Conor isn\u2019t afraid to fire back and claim he\u2019ll step up. \u201cWhy isn\u2019t he (Jake) calling out Israel Adesanya? I know! I know, and you know, and he knows, and everybody else knows too.\u201d Timestamp of 8:55 While their feud has escalated over the last few months, White isn\u2019t afraid of doing business with the YouTuber and has repeated the \u201cnever say never\u201d line. Though, he clearly would want to see something that makes sense. Given that McGregor is the \u2018money\u2019 fight for many fighters, Jake\u2019s continued beef with him makes sense, even if they don\u2019t match up physically. Though, we\u2019ll have to wait and see what happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dana White tells Jake Paul to call out UFC champ instead of Conor McGregor YouTube: ESPN\/Instagram: Jake PaulDana White has questioned why Jake Paul won\u2019t go after UFC champion Israel Adesanya rather than Conor McGregor, given the YouTuber matches up with the \u2018Last Stylebender\u2019 a bit more evenly. As he has made waves in the […]<\/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-46512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46512","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=46512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}