Jake Paul’s supervisor, Nakisa Bidarian, says they’re not thinking about accepting the struggle in opposition to IBF heavyweight champion Daniel Dubois. Bidarian says Jake’s quick purpose is to return to cruiserweight to grow to be a world champion in that weight class.
It’s not an enormous shock that Jake has rejected Dubois’ supply to struggle him for his IBF title as a result of it wouldn’t be aggressive. He’s not prepared for a fighter like Dubois.
“Not Now” – Why Paul is Avoiding Dubois
Bidarian doesn’t say who Jake will struggle to grow to be a cruiserweight champion as a result of he could be overmatched in opposition to any of the prevailing champs. Nonetheless, if the WBC places one among their lesser titles up for grabs, just like the Diamond, Silver, or Interim, Paul can doubtlessly win if he’s matched in opposition to the proper of opponent. KSI or Salt Papi could be supreme. The draw back is that Jake wouldn’t be taken critically by hardcore boxing followers, however his followers wouldn’t thoughts.
Cruiserweight World Champions
– Gilberto Ramirez: WBA & WBO– Jai Opetaia: IBF– Noel Mikaelyan: WBC
Jake needs to seize a cruiserweight world title earlier than he strikes as much as heavyweight to problem for a belt in opposition to somebody like Dubois. Jake’s greatest likelihood of successful a world title at cruiserweight could be in opposition to WBC champion Noel Mikaelyan. He’s broadly seen because the weakest hyperlink among the many three champions within the division.
Paul, 27, defeated 58-year-old retired former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson final Friday in a struggle that many followers felt was scripted like a theatrical manufacturing. Followers level out that Tyson pulled his punches to keep away from hurting the younger fight-hustler Paul (11-1, 7 KOs), who has but to struggle a world-class boxer throughout his four-year profession.
IBF champion Dubois (22-2, 21 KOs) needed to get in on the act to supply Jake a free title shot with out him needing to really earn the struggle, as a result of it was fairly apparent that the way in which his profession has been moved, he had no intention of following the traditional guidelines of boxing.
Jake seemingly would by no means conform to struggle a high 15 contender at heavyweight or compete in a world title eliminator in opposition to somebody like Martin Bakole, Agit Kabayel, or Zhilei Zhang. With Jake’s reputation, he doesn’t have to work his strategy to a title shot. It’ll be given to him.
“Jake’s feedback to me was, ‘I want to do that fight [with Dubois but] not now, but I want to do that fight,’” mentioned Nakisa Bidarian to Sky Sports activities about Jake Paul not being thinking about going through IBF heavyweight champion Daniel Dubois now.
“To be a world champion at cruiserweight, he wants to do that. The other [fighting Dubois] is to test the limits of expectations. Test the limits of what’s possible,” mentioned Bidarian. “It isn’t about the money. He’s made lots of money from the time he was 18 years old. It’s really about doing things that make you say: ‘Wow, that really happened.’ That’s what excites us.”
Jake defeated the hapless-looking Mike Tyson by an eight-round unanimous resolution in entrance of a giant crowd of 73,000+ followers on the AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. The scores have been 79-73, 80-72 and 79-73.
The unhappy half is that the Texas Fee sanctioned the Paul vs. Tyson struggle as an official skilled struggle that counted within the file books regardless of the match having two minutes and each fighters sporting 14-oz gloves.
