Jake Paul denied MMA fighter as Tommy Fury replacement for August 6 fight YouTube: Showtime SportsJake Paul has revealed that he wasn\u2019t allowed to pick an MMA fighter to replace Tommy Fury for his August 6th fight in New York \u2013 and it almost all fell through. When Jake Paul and Tommy Fury announced that they\u2019d finally be squaring off on August 6, plenty of fans were immediately excited that the pair would be settling their beef inside the ring. Though, some were skeptical it would actually go ahead. After Tommy ran into some trouble traveling to the United States, the fight was canned and Jake moved on to find another opponent \u2013 Hasim Rahman Jr. \u2013 to take Tommy\u2019s place opposite him in the ring at Madison Square Garden. Prior to announcing Rahman Jr. as his opponent though, the YouTuber-turned-boxer was linked with a handful of fighters with an MMA background as potential opponents, including both Nate Diaz and Anderson Silva. However, he\u2019s revealed that he was stopped from fighting someone like that. Jake Paul denied MMA opponent for August 6 fight Following the first pre-fight press conference between Jake and Hasim, the social media star appeared on Showtime\u2019s Morning Kombat podcast to talk more about the matchup. After revealing the weight the fight will take place at, which has been pushed by the New York State Athletic Commission, Jake noted that they also had some say on his opponent following Tommy dropping out. \u201cThere were certain names that they wouldn\u2019t approve, mostly MMA fighters,\u201d Jake told Luke Thomas, noting his team that sought a professional boxer as Tommy\u2019s replacement. \u201cIt sort of reversed because they were like \u2018we don\u2019t know if we\u2019re going to approve Jake for this\u2019. Just like everyone, this is a high-risk fight. This is insane, this is psychotic, no boxer is taking chances like this as early on in their career.\u201d Timestamp of 3:40 Of course, while he was denied the chance to fight an MMA fighter this time around, it\u2019s possible that Jake fights a fighter from that world at a later date. Plenty of fans are already looking beyond the Hasim Rahman Jr fight and looking at who Jake might take on next, but the undefeated boxer will present a tricky challenge for the social media phenom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jake Paul denied MMA fighter as Tommy Fury replacement for August 6 fight YouTube: Showtime SportsJake Paul has revealed that he wasn\u2019t allowed to pick an MMA fighter to replace Tommy Fury for his August 6th fight in New York \u2013 and it almost all fell through. When Jake Paul and Tommy Fury announced that […]<\/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-51229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51229","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=51229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}