Jake Paul vows to knock Conor McGregor out \u2013 in boxing or MMA IG: Jake Paul \/ Wikimedia CommonsJake Paul and Conor McGregor have once again locked horns on social media, trading barbs in which the YouTuber turned boxer promised to knock the Irish MMA star out in a boxing or cage fighting match. Jake Paul\u2019s rise to boxing stardom has been indisputably impressive. From beating out AnEsonGib and Nate Robinson to outclassing legendary fighters like Anderson Silva, his unbeaten record continues to raise eyebrows. It\u2019s not currently known who Jake will be taking on in his next fight, but recent rumors point to a date in mid-February 2023. While the likes of Tommy Fury seem more probable, there has been long-standing tension with legendary UFC fighter Conor McGregor. On December 22, it reached a head once again. Jake Paul promises to knock Conor McGregor out \u2013 in a cage fight After initially poking fun at KSI, McGregor responded to a fan who said he\u2019d be willing to fight in the influencer boxing space. Asking \u201cwill there be belts?\u201d McGregor did say he\u2019d be open to that \u201cgenre\u201d of boxing. That\u2019s when Jake Paul came in. The American mocked McGregor for his lack of recent title fights, as well as promising to knock him out \u2013 in cage fighting or boxing. \u201cYou fight for belts?\u201d he said. \u201cLast time you fought for a belt was 4 years ago. Lost 3 of your last 4 fights. I would knock you out in the squared circle with one hand tied behind my back. To be fair, in the cage I would need two hands. But [the] same result.\u201d It would certainly be a departure from his existing time in the pro fighting industry. To this point, Jake has only competed in straight boxing, rather than MMA, cage fighting, or another mixed combat sport. He has hinted at similar things in the past but nothing has materialized \u2013 yet. It\u2019s also an outlandish claim from Paul given McGregor\u2019s record in the UFC, still considered one of the best to ever do it despite a late-career decline in results and belts. If there\u2019s one thing we\u2019ve learned about Paul to this point, he doesn\u2019t like to back down from challenges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jake Paul vows to knock Conor McGregor out \u2013 in boxing or MMA IG: Jake Paul \/ Wikimedia CommonsJake Paul and Conor McGregor have once again locked horns on social media, trading barbs in which the YouTuber turned boxer promised to knock the Irish MMA star out in a boxing or cage fighting match. Jake […]<\/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-51650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51650","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=51650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}