Jake Paul hits back at \u201crigged\u201d Anderson Silva fight claims YouTube: Jake PaulJake Paul has hit back at claims this his win over Anderson Silva was \u201crigged\u201d after he scored a last-round knockdown over the UFC legend. Since getting into the world of boxing, Jake Paul has had his fair share of critics. Many have criticized his skills, others have questioned who he\u2019s taken on as opponents, while others have made some more outlandish claims. When the \u2018Problem Child\u2019 defeated Tyron Woodley for a second time, some viewers suggested it was a rigged result and that Woodley had taken a dive. Why? Well, their evidence was that the pair telegraphed the punch that Jake delivered to score the knockout. Obviously, that wasn\u2019t true. Following his win over Anderson Silva, the YouTuber-turned-boxer has faced more match-fixing claims. While he won the fight via the scorecards, some viewers suggested that Anderson had gone down a bit too easy in the final round after a body shot from Jake. Jake Paul responds to claims Anderson Silva fight was \u201crigged\u201d Jake appeared on the October 31 episode of The MMA Hour with Ariel Helwani to discuss the win and, naturally, responded to those wild claims. \u201cI think smart people with intelligence are giving me props and respect,\u201d Jake said about the win, claiming he\u2019d had messages from boxers and MMA fighters following his performance. \u201cThere are the people who will always be there in my career who are discrediting it. Now, they\u2019re saying it was rigged. It went from, \u2018Jake\u2019s going to get knocked out by Anderson,\u2019 to, \u2018Oh, that was rigged.\u2019 \u201cI lose faith in my generation and my peers, and us as a society and a world when I see that type of stuff and that type of stupidity,\u201d he continued. \u201cIt just sucks. It sucks because I worked so hard for this. I dedicate everything, sacrifice everything, every single day, bust my balls, have a 15-person team working around the clock to help me become the best boxer possible, and when I do something like beating Anderson Silva, they try to take it away from me. But I know deep down, and I guess that\u2019s all that really matters.\u201d Timestamp of 7:23 As noted, it\u2019s not the first time these claims have been thrown Jake\u2019s way, and if they were even remotely true, no commission would sanction his fights or give him a license. In terms of who he might fight next, that elusive clash with Tommy Fury remains a possibility, and so does a bout with Nate Diaz. So, we\u2019ll have to wait and see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jake Paul hits back at \u201crigged\u201d Anderson Silva fight claims YouTube: Jake PaulJake Paul has hit back at claims this his win over Anderson Silva was \u201crigged\u201d after he scored a last-round knockdown over the UFC legend. Since getting into the world of boxing, Jake Paul has had his fair share of critics. Many have […]<\/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-51323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51323","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=51323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}