Jake Paul blasts Deji after denying him a boxing rematch TMZ Sports \/ Deji, YouTubeSocial media star Jake Paul put YouTuber Deji Olatunji on blast during an interview with TMZ Sports on December 9 \u2013 claiming that his former boxing opponent is now \u201cbeneath him.\u201d Jake Paul fought Deji during the KSI vs Logan Paul card on August 25, 2018. With the rematch set for 2019, Jake Paul has set his sights on FaZe Banks as his next opponent in the ring \u2013 and has denied any chance of facing off against Deji again. While Paul addressed the issue in a series of Tweets toward Deji on December 5, he went even further during an interview with TMZ on the ninth, explaining that fighting the YouTuber wouldn\u2019t be \u201cworth his time.\u201d \u201cHe wouldn\u2019t last,\u201d Paul confirmed. \u201cHe didn\u2019t make it the full six rounds, and I feel like it\u2019s just not exciting anymore. \u2026I wanna fight someone at an elevated level.\u201d The interviewer went on to ask if he felt that facing off against Deji was \u201cbeneath him,\u201d to which Paul replied with a decisive \u201cyes.\u201d Paul had previously called out FaZe content creator Ricky Banks in a vlog on December 8, asking him to throw down in a boxing match preceding the KSI vs Logan Paul rematch. In fact, Paul is only giving Banks three months to prepare \u2013 leading to what some deem to be an unfair matchup, with Paul having the ultimate advantage. Paul has likewise called out MMA fighter Dillon Danis and American singer-songwriter Chris Brown \u2013 although the possibility of these matches remain up in the air.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jake Paul blasts Deji after denying him a boxing rematch TMZ Sports \/ Deji, YouTubeSocial media star Jake Paul put YouTuber Deji Olatunji on blast during an interview with TMZ Sports on December 9 \u2013 claiming that his former boxing opponent is now \u201cbeneath him.\u201d Jake Paul fought Deji during the KSI vs Logan Paul […]<\/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-51086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51086","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=51086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}