Evander Holyfield wants to fight Jake Paul if he\u2019s offered \u201cenough money\u201d Instagram\/evanderholyfieldFormer professional boxer and four-time world heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield says he would be interested in getting into the ring with YouTube sensation Jake Paul \u2013 if the money is right. Jake Paul has taken the internet by storm with his boxing antics, including a recent knockout in round one against former UFC mixed martial artist Ben Askren, and Holyfield has taken notice. While the \u201cproblem child\u201d has proven to be just that, even going as far as sabotaging brother Logan\u2019s press conference ahead of his bout with Floyd Mayweather, Jake is showing no signs of stopping. Now, as he eagerly awaits his next opponent (of which he seems to have many to choose from), Holyfield says he\u2019s down to get a piece of the amateur boxer himself. In an interview with The Sun, the 58-year-old boxing legend dismissed Paul as \u201ca guy who didn\u2019t come through amateurs\u201d and just fights as a \u201chobby.\u201d \u201cHe has a little bit more weight behind how to do things because people like him are doing it for the fun of it,\u201d Holyfield claimed. \u201cThe thing is, it\u2019s about ego, what he\u2019s doing. People he wants to fight, if people agree to fight him, they know he\u2019s got all these followers.\u201d Despite being out of action for ten years, Holyfield says he would have no problem duking it out with Jake Paul. \u201cIf he believes he can beat me, and he gave me enough money, oh, yes, I\u2019d get in the ring with him,\u201d the real deal said. \u201cAnd I\u2019d show people what would happen.\u201d So far, Jake Paul hasn\u2019t responded to the challenge, but given how the two boxers have a good relationship and even previously trained together, it\u2019s possible that the YouTuber could step up. It would definitely be an interesting bout, especially considering Holyfield\u2019s legendary history and Paul\u2019s own knockout power, which has paved the way to his undefeated 3-0 record. Hopefully, this challenge wasn\u2019t just talk, and something concrete materializes between the two in the near future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Evander Holyfield wants to fight Jake Paul if he\u2019s offered \u201cenough money\u201d Instagram\/evanderholyfieldFormer professional boxer and four-time world heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield says he would be interested in getting into the ring with YouTube sensation Jake Paul \u2013 if the money is right. Jake Paul has taken the internet by storm with his boxing antics, […]<\/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-48205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48205","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=48205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}