Jake Paul boasts that boxing referee \u201csaved\u201d Ben Askren\u2019s life YouTube: imPaulsiveYouTube star Jake Paul notably knocked out former UFC fighter Ben Askren in round one of their April 17 bout \u2014 and he claims that his opponent is only alive due to the efforts of their referee. Jake Paul is more than a mere YouTuber these days; the content creator has managed to build a successful professional boxing career, first defeating influencer AnEsonGib, then former NBA pro Nate Robinson, and now, Olympic wrestler Ben Askren. In a shocking turn of events, Paul managed to drop Askren in the very first round of their boxing match on April 17 \u2014 a match that raked in a reported $65 million. At the present moment, Paul is basking in both his monetary and fighting success\u2026 but he claims that his opponent could have had a far worse time of it, if not for their referee. Ringside view of Jake Paul’s KO of Ben Askren \ud83e\udd4apic.twitter.com\/YVLsixpEqI \u2014 Dexerto (@Dexerto) April 18, 2021 In an April 20 episode of the imPaulsive podcast, Paul claimed that he\u2019d intended to do far more damage if Askren had gotten up \u2014 but thanks to the ref\u2019s stoppage, Askren only walked away with a banged head and a bruised ego. \u201cBy the way, the ref saved his life,\u201d Paul stated. \u201cI wasn\u2019t even warmed up yet, first of all. When the ref was about to say, like, \u2018Go again,\u2019 I was gonna rip his f***ing head off, bro.\u201d \u201cI was charged up,\u201d he continued. \u201cHe would have really become a meme, and he would have left on a stretcher.\u201d (Topic begins at 1:50) Logan Paul, Jake\u2019s older brother, wasn\u2019t a fan of the stoppage, claiming that \u201cit was a good stoppage for Ben\u201d but that he wanted to see Jake \u201cdestroy\u201d the MMA star. That\u2019s not all the Paul\u2019s had to say about the matter, either; Jake hopes that Askren and Robinson will duke it out on the undercard of a future fight of his, and even speculated that Robinson might be the winning party out of the two of his defeated rivals. \u201cI think Nate Robinson wins,\u201d Jake claimed. \u201cHe had a little more spunk.\u201d For now, it\u2019s unclear who Jake is taking on next \u2014 but the entire world is waiting for the announcement in wake of his shockingly quick victory over his first \u201ctrue\u201d fighter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jake Paul boasts that boxing referee \u201csaved\u201d Ben Askren\u2019s life YouTube: imPaulsiveYouTube star Jake Paul notably knocked out former UFC fighter Ben Askren in round one of their April 17 bout \u2014 and he claims that his opponent is only alive due to the efforts of their referee. Jake Paul is more than a mere […]<\/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-51092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51092","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=51092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}