One of Bellator’s most exciting heavyweights, Ben “Big Tuna” Parrish, wants a shot at Jake Paul. Although Paul’s attention has mostly been focused on the UFC roster, Parrish says a charity matchup between himself and the YouTuber-turned-boxer makes sense for another reason entirely.
In an interview with MMA Fighting, Parrish pointed out that he and Paul share an interest in anti-bullying charity work.
Bellator’s Ben “Big Tuna” Parrish Offers Jake Paul Charity MMA Match
“I just partnered up with a huge foundation against bullying, it’s like a charity, Jake Paul’s got a charity for anti-bullying, but I know what we won’t do and that’s do a winner takes all purse live on Showtime in Bellator MMA where the winner’s foundation gets the money.”
Unfortunately, says Parrish, Jake Paul only fights smaller men, so he doesn’t see this as a likely turn of events. “I bet you he won’t game up to nothing like that because I’m his size, and I don’t do steroids. I’m all for it. I’d box him or fight in him in MMA. I don’t care.”
Ben Parrish is something of an old-school MMA anomaly, a gifted heavyweight with a passion for the sport. Like many among combat sports’ old guard, he doesn’t quite understand the appeal of Jake and Logan Paul as boxers. Unlike many of his contemporaries, however, Ben Parrish knows that they’re a huge draw, and worth taking on for that reason alone.
“I don’t want to sound like a hater because I kind of got props for them guys in a way because I watched their first little streamer boxer event.
I play some online video games so we looked at it like, ‘Look at all of these pencil neck geeks who are gonna fight each other.’ I watched it, and now look where we’re at. I watched that KSI [vs.] Logan Paul event and it was terrible, now look where we’re at.
[Logan’s] fighting Floyd Mayweather, the other one’s beating up Woodley who is a welterweight when he’s 200 pounds, and people are just eating it up.
People keep telling me, ‘I want to see you fight Jake Paul. I want to see you fight Logan Paul.’ Well, I want to fight them too because it would be the easiest and most money I’ve ever made. Are you kidding me?”
In the meantime, Ben Parrish is set to fight Sullivan Cauley at Bellator 273 this Saturday night, a fight that he promises will be “Bellator’s most violent fight of 2022”.
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