Former UFC star Yoel Romero claims Jake Paul canceled fight to box \u201ceasier\u201d Ben Askren Instagram: Jake Paul\/Yoel RomeroFormer UFC star Yoel Romero claims he was in line to fight Jake Paul instead of Ben Askren, but the YouTuber\u2019s camp canceled the fight when he showed interest in making it happen. Jake Paul\u2019s first foray into boxing might have come against fellow YouTubers, but since wins over Deji and AnEsonGib, he has ventured into fighting athletes and professional fighters. After dispatching of Nate Robinson with a lethal KO, the social media mogul moved on to fight Ben Askren \u2013 bringing an end to their longtime online rivalry. However, it appears as if Askren wasn\u2019t supposed to be Jake\u2019s initial opponent. Former UFC middleweight star Yoel Romero claims he was initially in line to fight the YouTuber, but his camp got cold feet. Speaking to Ariel Helwani on The MMA Hour, the \u2018Solider of God\u2019 claimed that Jake\u2019s camp dropped the idea of a fight between them when Yoel upped his interest and wanted to make it happen. \u201cWhat happened was, initially, Jake Paul wanted to do a fight with Yoel but then when Yoel wanted to do it, the Paul team canceled the fight,\u201d the former UFC star said via his translator. \u201cSo, initially, they wanted to do the fight with Yoel. That was when he was just getting out of the UFC, he had not signed with Bellator yet, and they said eventually no, not with Yoel\u2026 They decided to go with Ben Askren as an easier target, I guess.\u201d Timestamp of 11:20 Romero added that he believes the Paul brothers don\u2019t want to face \u201creal\u201d fighters and are \u201cjust trying to make it a show\u201d that they don\u2019t want to ruin. \u201cThey\u2019re finding the easy fights,\u201d he added. \u201cEven though (Logan) fought Mayweather, but the thing is, there\u2019s a huge weight difference (between them).\u201d At this point, a fight between Jake and the 44-year-old is unlikely to materialize, given Jake has revealed his boxing \u2018hitlist\u2019 and the newly-signed Bellator fighter isn\u2019t on there. Though, never say never in the fight game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Former UFC star Yoel Romero claims Jake Paul canceled fight to box \u201ceasier\u201d Ben Askren Instagram: Jake Paul\/Yoel RomeroFormer UFC star Yoel Romero claims he was in line to fight Jake Paul instead of Ben Askren, but the YouTuber\u2019s camp canceled the fight when he showed interest in making it happen. Jake Paul\u2019s first foray […]<\/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-48841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48841","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=48841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}