Former UFC star wants to fight Jake Paul next, but fans say he\u2019ll be \u201cmurdered\u201d Instagram\/JakePaulJake Paul is set to return to boxing on March 2, and while he may not have a dance partner lined up just yet, a former UFC fighter has thrown his hat into the ring. \u2018The Problem Child\u2019 has taken the combat sports world by storm with an 8-1 record featuring victories over UFC champions such as Nate Diaz, Anderson Silva and two Ws against Tyron Woodley. While he did suffer his first-ever loss at the hands of Tommy Fury via split-decision, he came right back by KOing Andre August in his return bout and is scheduled to compete again in March. To bring in the new year, Paul revealed his team sent out two contracts for potential fights, and although nothing has been confirmed just yet, another ex-UFC mixed martial artist has seemingly accepted. The only problem? Fans say he\u2019ll get destroyed by the influencer. Jake Paul boxing match accepted by ex-UFC fighter Following Paul\u2019s contract announcement on X, light heavyweight PFL fighter Derek Brunson posted a cryptic tweet indicating that he was interested. On Elon Musk\u2019s platform, the MMA star quote-tweeted Jake\u2019s announcement with an emoji of a hand holding a pen, suggesting he would sign a contract if offered. Brunson currently competes in the PFL, an org that Paul himself is part of and plans to make his eventual MMA debut in. His last fight in the UFC was back at UFC 285 where he lost to Dricus du Plessis via TKO. His opponent, du Plessis, is no pushover and is set to square off against Sean Strickland for the Middleweight Championship at UFC 297 later this month in Toronto. While Brunson may want to take the fight against Paul, fans are not convinced he\u2019ll do so well and are warning him not to take the match. \u201cJake Paul via MURDER,\u201d one commented. \u201cUr gassed out by round 3 and then jake ends you,\u201d another chimed in. \u201cJake would smoke you in the ring & cage,\u201d remarked someone else about the possibility of an MMA bout. So far, The Problem Child hasn\u2019t revealed who he\u2019ll be fighting next so it\u2019s anyone\u2019s guess if he decides to take on Brunson or if someone else has already answered the call. In any case, be sure to keep it locked to Dexerto for all the latest in the influencer boxing world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Former UFC star wants to fight Jake Paul next, but fans say he\u2019ll be \u201cmurdered\u201d Instagram\/JakePaulJake Paul is set to return to boxing on March 2, and while he may not have a dance partner lined up just yet, a former UFC fighter has thrown his hat into the ring. \u2018The Problem Child\u2019 has taken […]<\/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-48840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48840","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=48840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}