UFC legend Daniel Cormier urges Jake Paul to fight Anderson Silva IG: Anderson Silva \/ Jake PaulUFC legend and commentator Daniel Cormier urged Jake Paul to fight Anderson Silva instead of Michael Bisping, claiming the former UFC Middleweight Champion \u201cfits the mold\u201d better. On April 16, Jake Paul pitched a $1 million fight offer to Michael Bisping after trading blows on social media. He accepted it, but with one small catch \u2014 he\u2019d need enough time to lose a bit of weight before it happens. However, Cormier, who is good friends with Bisping and commentates alongside him, urged Jake to fight Anderson Silva instead because he \u201cfits the mold\u201d better and believes beating him is a way for Jake to \u201cprove\u201d himself. \u201cYou want an older guy to fight?\u201d he said. \u201cThere\u2019s a former UFC champion that is doing exactly what you\u2019re doing. His name\u2019s Anderson Silva. That\u2019s who you should be fighting, Jake. That\u2019s who you should be calling out!\u201d Cormier explained that he still \u201cfits the mold\u201d because he\u2019s a former UFC champ, an amateur boxer who has fought around five times in the boxing ring, and is roughly the same size, although considerably older. \u201cYou should be calling out Anderson, not Michael Bisping. That\u2019s the fight. Not only does that fight fit the mold of what you\u2019re doing, that fight actually gives us some idea of what this thing is that you\u2019re trying to do or portray.\u201d \u201cIf you really want to show the world, if you really want to prove that this is a second career for Jake Paul, fight Anderson Silva. That\u2019s fun because Anderson Silva is still an amateur boxer, but he\u2019s still training, and he\u2019s still fit.\u201d Of course, that doesn\u2019t mean Cormier wouldn\u2019t subscribe to seeing Bisping and Paul fight. He claimed Bisping would be able to push Jake to a place that other fighters haven\u2019t been able to do in his previous fights. Still, he thinks Silva is a better fit. \u201cIf Jake Paul wants to be considered real and Jake Paul wants to be an actual fighter, you\u2019ve gotta fight somebody that is more in the game. And that person to me is Anderson Silva.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
UFC legend Daniel Cormier urges Jake Paul to fight Anderson Silva IG: Anderson Silva \/ Jake PaulUFC legend and commentator Daniel Cormier urged Jake Paul to fight Anderson Silva instead of Michael Bisping, claiming the former UFC Middleweight Champion \u201cfits the mold\u201d better. On April 16, Jake Paul pitched a $1 million fight offer to […]<\/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-63098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63098","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=63098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}