Jake Paul is \u201cserious\u201d about boxing match with Soulja Boy, agrees to put up $20 million Jake Paul, Soulja Boy – InstagramWhile controversial YouTuber Jake Paul and American rapper \u2018Soulja Boy\u2019 have been beefing across social media throughout early February, it looks like their spat is finally taking a serious turn. Paul agreed to cough up a pretty penny to box the \u2018Crank Dat\u2019 rapper in an interview with TMZ on February 6, claiming that he would put up a whopping $20 million on their fight. This amount was made in reference to his heated Instagram Live conversation with Soulja Boy on February 3, where the rapper stated that he would place $20 million on their proposed bout due to his record deal with label Warner\/Chappell music. However, Paul speculated that his potential opponent doesn\u2019t have the cash in question, and feels that the artist is all talk, claiming that Soulja Boy has yet to get him in contact with his manager to schedule a fight. Paul went on to state that he is \u201cserious\u201d about boxing Soulja Boy, claiming that it would be good for business, since \u201cpeople would want to see him get knocked out.\u201d The YouTuber instigated beef with Soulja Boy in a Tweet on February 1, writing, \u201cI wanna box Soulja Boy.\u201d Soulja Boy responded to the callout in kind, claiming that he would \u201cknock [Paul] out.\u201d Boy I\u2019ll knock you out https:\/\/t.co\/67S2zlEbNW \u2014 Soulja Boy (Young Drako) :heavy_dollar_sign::electric_plug::pistol: (@souljaboy) February 2, 2019 The two went on to bring their spat face-to-face in an Instagram Live call, where Soulja Boy implied that he would throw hands \u201con sight.\u201d While Soulja Boy has yet to officially respond to Paul\u2019s interview, his Instagram post created shortly thereafter could act as a message to the YouTuber, which pictures the rapper flashing two middle fingers at the camera with the caption, \u201cMiddle finger to a hater I\u2019m getting paper \ud83e\udd37\ud83c\udffe\u2642\ufe0f\u2757\ufe0f\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jake Paul is \u201cserious\u201d about boxing match with Soulja Boy, agrees to put up $20 million Jake Paul, Soulja Boy – InstagramWhile controversial YouTuber Jake Paul and American rapper \u2018Soulja Boy\u2019 have been beefing across social media throughout early February, it looks like their spat is finally taking a serious turn. Paul agreed to cough […]<\/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-51531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51531","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=51531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}