Hasim Rahman Jr urges Jake Paul to \u201cstop being scared\u201d amid fight cancelation YouTube: DAZN, Jake PaulHasim Rahman Jr. is urging YouTube boxer Jake Paul to \u201cput the gloves on\u201d and continue their match after it was suddenly canceled due to weight issues for the two fighters. Jake Paul has been struggling to secure an opponent for his next boxing match, which was initially slated for August 6, 2022 at New York\u2019s Madison Square Garden. At first, Paul seemed set to take on British boxing rival Tommy Fury \u2014 but last-minute travel difficulties prevented Fury from entering the United States, putting their bout on hold. Luckily, Jake was able to secure a replacement in time, settling for pro boxer Hasim Rahman Jr. It seemed as though this would be Paul\u2019s biggest challenge yet\u2026 but these hopes were dashed less than a week out from fight night. On July 30, Paul\u2019s promotional company revealed that the match had been officially canceled due to Rahman Jr. allegedly having issues making weight. The company claimed they\u2019d been informed that Rahman Jr. had intended to weigh in at 215 lbs, instead of the planned 205 lbs for the Cruiserweight division. \u201cThese boxers are the most difficult people to work with and continually lack professionalism and confidence to fight me,\u201d Jake said of the ordeal. Now, Rahman Jr. is hitting back at Jake\u2019s claims and is urging him to move forward with their fight, saying he could have made weight in time. In an interview with TMZ, Rahman Jr. accused Paul of \u201cpulling strings\u201d and said he\u2019s lost \u201ca tremendous amount of respect\u201d for the YouTube star \u2014 who he says attempted to \u201cblackball\u201d him from the boxing industry. \u201cStop being scared, Jake,\u201d the boxer said. \u201cWe got a lot of people out there watching us. We got a lot of people out there that look up to you. A lot of people out there who look up to me.\u201d \u201cStop being scared. Be a man. Put the gloves on. Stop being scared, it\u2019s that simple. You get in a fight with a real fighter, man. Get in there, get your a** whooped, and then go back to YouTube.\u201d Sadly, with the fight officially canceled, it doesn\u2019t look like Jake Paul has any plans of entertaining a rescheduled bout against Rahman Jr. \u2014 at least in the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hasim Rahman Jr urges Jake Paul to \u201cstop being scared\u201d amid fight cancelation YouTube: DAZN, Jake PaulHasim Rahman Jr. is urging YouTube boxer Jake Paul to \u201cput the gloves on\u201d and continue their match after it was suddenly canceled due to weight issues for the two fighters. Jake Paul has been struggling to secure an […]<\/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-49596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49596","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=49596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}