Jake Paul believes UFC fight will happen soon with Dana White\u2019s blessing Instagram: Jake PaulJake Paul believes fighting in the UFC is \u201cundeniable\u201d and that Dana White is opening up to the idea of letting him mix it up inside the Octagon. Even though he is set to step back into the boxing ring in August, Jake Paul has made plenty of noises about wanting to \u2013 at some point \u2013 step inside the cage and fight in the UFC. The YouTuber-turned-boxer has been locked in a heated feud with UFC president Dana White and a few of his biggest fighters over the last 12 months or so, and has even had open offers from other promotions should he decide to turn his back on boxing and mix it up in the world of Mixed Martial Arts. While White hasn\u2019t, yet, opened the door to having Jake fight inside the cage, the social media star believes that the UFC boss is softening his stance and that it is only a matter of time before it happens. Jake appeared on THE FIGHT podcast with Teddy Atlas to discuss his future in boxing and how it has \u201csaved\u201d him for spending time behind bars, when the topic of an MMA switch came up. \u201cI think it\u2019s timing and proving myself more in the boxing side of things and pretty soon the UFC and MMA side, it\u2019ll be undeniable for me to get into the Octagon or fight for one of these other organizations against a big name,\u201d Jake told the iconic boxing pundit. \u201cI think it\u2019s all a timing thing and Dana seems to be open to it. He said on my brother\u2019s podcast he might let Logan fight in the UFC and I think he\u2019s coming around to me and starting to see what I\u2019m about and what I actually stand for.\u201d Timestamp of 28:44 The 25-year-old noted that his investment in the UFC and desire to get fighters better pay and healthcare bonuses has put a stumbling block in the way, but given his feud with Dana, he believes there is plenty of interest. Whether it\u2019ll happen soon or not is anyone\u2019s guess, however. Jake has got plenty of backing from UFC alumni, as former contender Brendan Schaub even questioned why a deal hasn\u2019t been made yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jake Paul believes UFC fight will happen soon with Dana White\u2019s blessing Instagram: Jake PaulJake Paul believes fighting in the UFC is \u201cundeniable\u201d and that Dana White is opening up to the idea of letting him mix it up inside the Octagon. Even though he is set to step back into the boxing ring in […]<\/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-51075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51075","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=51075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}