Jake Paul shuts down Vitor Belfort\u2019s $30m fight challenge: \u201cThat doesn\u2019t excite me\u201d Instagram: Jake Paul \/ Wikimedia CommonsJake Paul shut down former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Vitor Belfort\u2019s $30 million fight challenge, claiming it \u2018doesn\u2019t excite him\u201d and is less enticing than other offers out there. Jake Paul\u2019s career transition into a full-fledged professional boxer reached new heights in August 2021. He decisively beat former UFC Middleweight Champion Tyron Woodley, who proved to be his toughest opponent yet. He didn\u2019t like the fact it was decided via split decision. However, he made a killing in the process, and it opened the door to many new opportunities and challenges, including a lucrative $30 million offer from former Vitor Belfort. Jake seemed interested at first, if not only for the money. But now that he\u2019s had time to process the challenge, he told Ariel Helwani on The MMA Hour that he\u2019s not interested in making it happen, and he explained why. First, Jake took a swipe at Belfort, claiming his fight against boxing legend Evander Holyfield was a mockery of the sport. \u201cHe beat up an old man,\u201d he said. \u201cHe disrespected the sport of boxing in my opinion. Holyfield is a legend, but he shouldn\u2019t be fighting somebody that\u2019s in their early 40s. It was just sad to see.\u201d Then, he knocked back the fight challenge on the grounds that he believes there are \u201cbetter people\u201d out there. \u201cVitor is not that big of a name. He just isn\u2019t. He\u2019s not even as big of a name as Tyron Woodley,\u201d he added. \u201cI\u2019m trying to get bigger with each one of these fights. I\u2019m trying to have more of a challenge. Vitor is a lot easier of a fight than Tyron. \u201cHe\u2019s older, and he\u2019s on steroids. That doesn\u2019t really excite me. It\u2019s not as big of a fight as the ten other people calling me out.\u201d Jake has recently been linked to fights against Jorge Masvidal and Derek Brunson, the latter of which is gaining traction. Nothing has been locked in yet. However, he\u2019s clearly drawing lots of attention from fighters. As for what happens next, the world\u2019s his oyster. He challenged Conor McGregor in the past, and although that didn\u2019t eventuate, he\u2019s still trying \u2013 especially after blasting him for brawling with Machine Gun Kelly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jake Paul shuts down Vitor Belfort\u2019s $30m fight challenge: \u201cThat doesn\u2019t excite me\u201d Instagram: Jake Paul \/ Wikimedia CommonsJake Paul shut down former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Vitor Belfort\u2019s $30 million fight challenge, claiming it \u2018doesn\u2019t excite him\u201d and is less enticing than other offers out there. Jake Paul\u2019s career transition into a full-fledged professional […]<\/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-51544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51544","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=51544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}