Jake Paul accused of \u201cducking\u201d $30 million fight with UFC legend YouTube: Jake PaulJake Paul has been accused of \u201cducking\u201d a $30 million fight with UFC legend Vitor Belfort by Hasim Rahman Jr., who Jake was supposed to fight in August. When Jake Paul revealed that he wanted to make his boxing return in August, fans only wanted to see him square off with one person \u2013 Tommy Fury. That fight fell through due to Fury\u2019s troubles with entering the United States, though. As a result, the call went out for a replacement, and Jake found one in the form of Hasim Rahman Jr. \u2013 a second-generation heavyweight boxer with a 12-1 record. Though, that fight fell through as the pro boxer failed to make the weight cuts required by the New York State Athletic Commission. Jake\u2019s planned return in August didn\u2019t happen, but he will step into the ring in October against Anderson \u2018The Spider\u2019 Silva. The YouTuber-turned-boxer has a history of fighting MMA stars, as he\u2019s beaten Ben Askren and Tyron Woodley. Though, he also \u2018ducked\u2019 a fight with Vitor Belfort. Jake Paul accused of being \u201cscared\u201d for not taking Vitor Belfort fight That\u2019s what Rahman Jr. believes anyway, as he is now scheduled to fight the former UFC star in the boxing ring \u2013 and he\u2019s looking to prove a point to Jake against Belfort. \u201cIt\u2019s more so about proving a point of why \u2018Fake Paul\u2019 was scared,\u201d Rahman told The Schmo on September 14. \u201cHe doesn\u2019t want to fight Vitor, he declined that. They put $30 million on the table for them to fight, he didn\u2019t want to take that, and then now he didn\u2019t want to fight me.\u201d \u201cThese two guys that Jake is obviously ducking, obviously scared of, now we going to fight. No matter which way the fight goes, I don\u2019t think Jake is going to be in a rush to get in the ring with either one of us.\u201d Timestamp of 6:40 While Jake hasn\u2019t responded to Rahman\u2019s new call-out, he previously stated that he turned down the Belfort fight because it didn\u2019t \u201cexcite\u201d him at the time. Provided he beats Silva in October, and Belfort beats Rahman Jr, maybe it could be something for them to look into again. Though, there is no shortage of future opponents for Jake anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jake Paul accused of \u201cducking\u201d $30 million fight with UFC legend YouTube: Jake PaulJake Paul has been accused of \u201cducking\u201d a $30 million fight with UFC legend Vitor Belfort by Hasim Rahman Jr., who Jake was supposed to fight in August. When Jake Paul revealed that he wanted to make his boxing return in August, […]<\/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-51021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51021","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=51021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}