Jake Paul says Canelo Alvarez is now taking boxing offer \u201cseriously\u201d Wikimedia, Box Azteca \/ Anthony PomplianoJake Paul has revealed Canelo Alvarez would be a perfect future boxing opponent for him and says the multiple-time world champion is now treating him seriously as a boxer. Canelo has been making headlines during the Qatar World Cup 2022, after calling out Argentina\u2019s Lionel Messi for handling the Mexico flag in the dressing room after a victory. He has since apologized for those comments, sweeping one story under the rug, but there may be another storyline just about to start. Jake Paul appeared on Anthony Pompliano\u2018s YouTube channel for a podcast, opening up on everything from Andrew Tate to Conor McGregor. Though, it appears those two don\u2019t even come close when talking about his dream opponent. That man, of course, is Canelo Alvarez. Jake Paul says Canelo is now taking him seriously \u201cWe\u2019re the two biggest names in the sport and two biggest pay-per-view drawers in the sport,\u201d he told Pompaliano. \u201cNot only is it a massive fight but because of our styles \u2013 styles make fights, right \u2013 because of how we match up, people will think going into it: \u2018Canelo is going to kill Jake.\u2019 But I know that I can win.\u201d Just in October, the Problem Child said he was ready to take on the star boxer. \u201cI\u2019m going to give him a hell of a run for his money,\u201d Paul added. \u201cThat would be an iconic fight to make for the generations. It would shut the internet down and I know I could win.\u201d (Timestamp below at 28:49) Adamant that he could go toe-to-toe with the 32-year-old, Jake said: \u201cI think he thinks he can whoop my ass and that I\u2019m just a YouTuber kid. \u201cWe\u2019ve talked to his lawyer and he\u2019s getting to a place where he sees how serious I am. At first, everyone thought this was a joke, my mouth was bigger than my actions, and now my actions are matching up to what my words are. Now, people have to take that seriously.\u201d In the sit-down, the boxer stated that he has been sparring with people close to the Canelo camp, such as previous opponent Gennadiy Gennadyevich Golovkin, and his former sparring partner. \u201cI think I could get into his head,\u201d he concluded, saying he would win the mental battle. It appears that while Jake Paul doesn\u2019t have anything signed just yet to face off against Canelo, it\u2019s something very much on his radar \u2013 and possibly the Mexican\u2019s, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jake Paul says Canelo Alvarez is now taking boxing offer \u201cseriously\u201d Wikimedia, Box Azteca \/ Anthony PomplianoJake Paul has revealed Canelo Alvarez would be a perfect future boxing opponent for him and says the multiple-time world champion is now treating him seriously as a boxer. Canelo has been making headlines during the Qatar World Cup […]<\/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-51503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51503","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=51503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}