UFC welterweight Matt Brown wants to remind Jake Paul exactly who he’s messing with. Paul recently signed with MMA promotion Pro Fighting League, but Brown pointed out that MMA is an entirely different game from novelty boxing or YouTube. Brown discussed the prospect of Paul facing a “world of f***ing savages” on The Fighter vs The Writer.
“When Jake Paul comes to MMA, I think one thing he’s going to discover is these guys that he’s fought in these so-called boxing matches, for one, he fought all older guys.
Matt Brown Warns Jake Paul of “World of F***ing Savages” in PFL
I’m not going to call them washed up, but they weren’t boxers. They were older. These MMA guys, I know a lot of MMA fighters, even ones that aren’t good, and they’re f****** lions. They’re starving, blood-hungry lions. It’s a different beast. There’s some beast boxers, too, but generally they’re athletes playing a skill game.
When you get into MMA fighters, these guys are just savage, f****** beasts. They’re lions coming for blood. It’s a different beast. These guys are savages. You can pick the right matchup and still lose. There’s so many different ways to lose. It’s just a different beast.”
Brown also questioned Paul’s self-stated goal to be a “real fighter”. “I’m not sure what his whole plan is here.
He was talking about he wanted to be a real boxer. You can’t train MMA and go box real boxers. You’re going up against guys that are only working their hands in boxing six, eight hours a day versus guys — if you’re training MMA — you’ve got to do jiu-jitsu, you’ve got to do wrestling, you’ve got do the clinch, you’ve got to do kickboxing and then you’ve got to do some boxing. The sports are very, very different.
I’m just not sure what his goal is. It’s cool if he wants to do MMA, but again, you’re in a different world now when you’re fighting MMA fighters — you’re in a world of f****** savages.
Not to say there’s not a lot of boxers out there that aren’t savages but there’s a lot more athletes that are great boxers than there are savages that are great boxers. There’s few and far between that have some of both. In MMA, it’s kind of the opposite. There’s a lot of savage sons of b****** and then there’s a few at the top that kind of have both.”
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