Jake Paul blasted by ex-world champion boxer Tony Bellew following callout IG: TonyBellew \/ JakePaulYouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul has been blasted by former world champion Tony Bellew, who warned him \u201cnot to wake the animal\u201d after he was mocked by the American. Jake Paul\u2019s ascent in the world of boxing has been a definite surprise for members of the online community, who generally approached the subject of YouTube boxing with disdain immediately after its establishment. However, since then, multiple million-dollar fights have taken place, with Jake Paul beating former UFC fighter Tyron Woodley in their high-profile rematch. Since then, rumors have been swirling as to who Paul\u2019s next opponent will be. Among the candidates are Tommy Fury, Saul \u2018Canelo\u2019 Alvarez, and, rather surprisingly, former world cruiserweight champion Tony Bellew. Bellew has previously criticized the YouTube boxing world, but appeared even less impressed after being touted as a possible future opponent for Jake Paul. In an April 29 tweet, he addressed the hoards of social media users telling him to fight Jake Paul, after the American said he was most famous for his acting role in the movie Creed \u2013 even though he downplayed how big that part was. Bellew said: \u201cWTF is going on? I\u2019ve (turned) social media on and all kinds going on to me about Jake Paul? Yes, I\u2019ve seen a video cos 20 people have WhatsApp\u2019d me it! Madness! My only response to it is.. my claim to fame isn\u2019t Creed son! It\u2019s winning the WBC belt! Oh and smashing your coach too.\u201d Paul\u2019s coach, former fighter BJ Flores, lost a cruiserweight bout versus Bellew back in 2016. WTF is going on? I\u2019ve social media on and all kinds going on to me about Jake Paul? Yes I\u2019ve seen a video cos 20 people have wats app\u2019d me it! Madness! My only response to it is.. my claim to fame isn\u2019t creed son! It\u2019s winning the @WBCBoxing belt! Oh and smashing your coach to \ud83e\udd23 \u2014 Tony Bellew (@TonyBellew) April 29, 2022 In a second tweet, he warned Paul \u201cnot to wake the animal\u201d, again distinguishing between himself and his character in the Creed movie. \u201cJust in case you needed to know what I look like Jake Paul,\u201d he said, attaching photos of him winning the WBC belt. \u201cThis is me! The other is how your coach got to know me! Creed was Pretty Ricky Conlan! What this is Tony BELLEW! Do not wake the fucking animal up that\u2019s been dead for years.\u201d Just in case you needed to know what I look like @jakepaul this is me! The other is how ya coach got to know me! Creed was Pretty Ricky Conlan! What this is Tony BELLEW! Do not wake the fucking animal up that\u2019s been dead for years.. \ud83d\udc4d pic.twitter.com\/dA4F1YoTC6 \u2014 Tony Bellew (@TonyBellew) April 29, 2022 Bellew has been retired since a 2018 loss to Oleksandr Usyk, but many took the tweets as a hint he would not be opposed to a lucrative fight with Paul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jake Paul blasted by ex-world champion boxer Tony Bellew following callout IG: TonyBellew \/ JakePaulYouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul has been blasted by former world champion Tony Bellew, who warned him \u201cnot to wake the animal\u201d after he was mocked by the American. Jake Paul\u2019s ascent in the world of boxing has been a definite surprise for […]<\/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-51080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51080","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=51080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}