With the boxing match done and dusted, YouTuber Jake Paul wants to take on Nate Diaz in the Octagon. Paul appeared on his brother Logan’s Impaulsive podcast to declare that, with under a year of training, he could take out Nate Diaz, a veteran of 34 fights, in MMA.
“Not right now, but in a year maybe. Honestly, I will will it into existence and I will work so f****** hard that I can do it. The best part about is that MMA matches obviously start standing up like a boxing match.
Jake Paul Barely Needs Training To Defeat Nate Diaz, According to Jake Paul
He can’t hurt me with punches, if his punches aren’t strong how are his kicks going to be. Of course, you can get a guillotine on someone when they’re not expecting it in a f****** boxing match, duh.”
Paul was here referencing a moment late in the fight where Diaz, for a moment, secured a guillotine choke on Paul. Diaz would have faced disqualification had he locked in the choke, and Diaz joked later that, under MMA rules, he would have won the fight.
Paul went on to explain the MMA math behind his prediction.“If I can prepare for it, the crazy thing about it, I’ve done the calculations in my head.
We start standing up. I learn kicks, I learn how to defend kicks. I’m beating his ass standing up clear as day in boxing.
He tries to get close to me, I can just stick and move. He tries to take me down, my takedown defense and takedowns are better than his.
I have way higher wrestling experience than his. He’s not going to be able to take me down. He’s slow, so I’m going to see the shots coming. Boom, block the shots.
He can’t take me down to submit me. It becomes a standing match. Three five-minute rounds, easy. I just fought for 30 minutes, that’s only 15 minutes.
I can work twice as hard in half the amount of time, expend twice as much energy to keep him away from me, while punching, not letting him take me down, and I will just simply have to watch out for his guillotine.”
Considering Paul’s recent signing with the Professional Fighters’ League, a pro MMA organization, it’s not unlikely that we see the second matchup in the series.
Jake Paul argues that, given enough training – under a year – he can emerge victorious in his mixed martial arts debut.
“Seriously, with eight to nine months of training, I know I can beat Nate Diaz in MMA.”
