Former UFC star Chael Sonnen claims Jake Paul \u201cneeds\u201d Nate Diaz fight Instagram: Jake Paul \/ Nate DiazFormer UFC star Chael Sonnen claims Jake Paul could \u201creally use\u201d a fight against Nate Diaz because his boxing career is seemingly \u201con hold,\u201d since his last pay-per-view fight \u201cdidn\u2019t meet expectations.\u201d Jake Paul\u2019s last fight against Tyron Woodley ended with an emphatic knockout. However, it was reportedly a commercial failure, although Jake urged people to take the reported numbers with a grain of salt. The Problem Child has taken some time off since then. Now, Chael Sonnen believes his hand was forced by Showtime, who wanted to put his career \u201con hold\u201d due to his previous fight not meeting expectations. \u201cJake told us that his last fight didn\u2019t meet expectations,\u201d said Chael. \u201cThat\u2019s fine. You\u2019ve got to be used to that. One day you will have a sold-out 5000 people, but then take the same recipe to a different date and there will be 500 people. \u201cSo, what went into the fact that Jake Paul didn\u2019t have a wonderful last fight \u2013 his second fight with Tyron Woodley? Nobody has the answer to that question. But I can tell you what did happen. They didn\u2019t use him again.\u201d Chael claims Jake was \u201csmart enough\u201d to address it first, however. \u201cHe came forward before Showtime made a statement saying they were putting the Jake Paul experiment on hold. He got in front of it and said he was putting his boxing career on hold.\u201d \u201cWas that the reality? Did he not want to fight? Or did he know that a fight wasn\u2019t coming? I can only tell you that as I surmise with the evidence in front of me, Jake Paul could really use a fight against Nate Diaz right now.\u201d Chael admitted that having one \u201cbad night\u201d in terms of pay-per-view numbers wasn\u2019t enough for Jake to go into \u201cabsolute panic.\u201d But he does think it\u2019s a \u201cproblem\u201d that can be solved by fighting Nate Diaz. Diaz recently requested to leave the UFC and brushed off a fight against Jake in favor of fighting his brother, Logan. So, Jake might need to seek out a different opponent like Colby Covington, who is seemingly open to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Former UFC star Chael Sonnen claims Jake Paul \u201cneeds\u201d Nate Diaz fight Instagram: Jake Paul \/ Nate DiazFormer UFC star Chael Sonnen claims Jake Paul could \u201creally use\u201d a fight against Nate Diaz because his boxing career is seemingly \u201con hold,\u201d since his last pay-per-view fight \u201cdidn\u2019t meet expectations.\u201d Jake Paul\u2019s last fight against Tyron […]<\/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-48839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48839","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=48839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}