Ex-UFC fighter wants to \u201cthrow hands\u201d with Jake Paul after praising him Instagram: jakepaul \/ YouTube: MMAFightingonSBNFormer UFC fighter Mark Hunt has revealed he would be down to \u201cthrow hands\u201d with Jake Paul while complimenting the YouTuber\u2019s career so far. Former professional mixed martial artist and kickboxer Mark Hunt competed in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) until 2018 before announcing he would not seek to renew his contract. However, the possibility of Hunt returning to the ring seems not entirely crossed out after an ambiguous post on X (formerly Twitter) left many speculating over a potential fight with Jake Paul. Now on an episode of The MMA Hour, Hunt has divulged what exactly his tweet was all about and how he feels about taking on the younger Paul brother. Appearing on the YouTube channel \u2018MMAFightingonSBN\u2018, Hunt was asked, \u201cI\u2019ve seen you also tweet at Jake Paul, is this a fight that you want?\u201d \u201cIs that the fight that he wants?\u201d Hunt replied. \u201cI always thought he was kind of small for it, but if he wants to throw hands, I\u2019ll throw hands with anyone, to be honest. That ain\u2019t a problem.\u201d When asked whether the former UFC fighter was \u201cimpressed\u201d with Paul, Hunt said, \u201cI actually like what he\u2019s done. He\u2019s actually done a lot of good things for himself and fighting. I mean he can sell out stadiums as being a YouTuber, so I have respect for that. But as skill level goes, I don\u2019t think so, to be honest. But who knows what the future holds?\u201d Viewers, however, weren\u2019t entirely convinced the fight would ever happen and expressed skepticism over the possibility that Paul would accept Hunt\u2019s invitation. One person wrote, \u201cHunt would need one shot at about 25% power to KO Jake. Jake will never take this boxing match. He\u2019ll stick to boxing older MMA wrestlers, and octagenarian basketball players to improve his \u2018boxing legacy. The kid\u2019s making [money] though.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ex-UFC fighter wants to \u201cthrow hands\u201d with Jake Paul after praising him Instagram: jakepaul \/ YouTube: MMAFightingonSBNFormer UFC fighter Mark Hunt has revealed he would be down to \u201cthrow hands\u201d with Jake Paul while complimenting the YouTuber\u2019s career so far. Former professional mixed martial artist and kickboxer Mark Hunt competed in the Ultimate Fighting Championship […]<\/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-48231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48231","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=48231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}