Jake Paul, YouTuber, influencer, and occasional boxer, has made a career out of irritating the right people. Ahead of his biggest fight yet, a boxing match against former UFC welterweight champion Tyron Woodley, one of his proudest accomplishments is how much he’s annoyed UFC president Dana White.
Paul told MMAFighting.com that he’s particularly proud to agitate for UFC fighter pay, saying that the promotion’s top athletes deserve better compensation than they’re currently receiving. He blasted Dana White, calling the UFC president “greedy”.
Jake Paul Loves Annoying Dana White: “I’m affecting his pockets and he doesn’t like that”
“He talks about me way more than I talk about him.
A lot of times I’ll just be minding my business and then all of a sudden there’s like a whole new interview that comes out where he’s talking about me. I’m definitely in his head because before when we were talking, it was just random back and forth but now I’m actually affecting his business and they don’t like that.”
“Those are big wig guys with a lot of power who are very greedy and they will do anything to get to the top. They have gotten to the top but they want more. They always want more. That’s how these billionaire sharks are. They will kill and eat everyone in their path to put more money into their bank accounts. I’m in his head, I’m affecting his pockets and he doesn’t like that.”
Paul continued, explaining why he feels so strongly about fighter pay. “It’s something that I’m bullish on and something that needs to change.
For my fight, while we were building out the undercard, I was like we need to make sure that this fight, these fighters, every single person on the card gets paid the most that they’ve ever gotten paid to fight.
I just want to spread the wealth and be about my words and put action behind my words and be the change instead of just talking about the change.”
Paul views himself as something of a professional disruptor, unbound by the conventions of traditional employer-employee relations. “Look, the UFC fighters can’t talk about it.
They can’t advocate for fighter pay because Dana White will just shelf them and a lot of the times it’s the same situation with boxing promoters who sign some of these young stars and lock them up in super long contracts.
“But I see how hard fighting is, I see how hard fighters work. The fact that it’s so skewed versus any other sport and it’s the most dangerous sport out of all of them, there needs to be a change there. I’m actually starting to affect Dana White’s business.”
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