Sam Alvey’s time in the Octagon seems to be at an end following his latest loss at UFC Vegas 59 and release from his UFC contract. He’s far from done with combat sports, however, with Alvey making the case to box YouTuber Jake Paul next on The MMA Hour.
His case? He’s on a losing streak, and he’d be the first striking-oriented fighter – with a pro kickboxing record of 7-1 – to face Paul, whose 5-0 record features mostly wrestlers and a basketball player.
Smilin’ Sam Alvey Wants To Box “Douche” Jake Paul After Sparring Run-In
“Every MMA fighter wants it, but now it kind of makes sense — is the Jake Paul fight. Everybody wants to do it. I like to joke that I haven’t won in a while, which is the kind of guys he likes to fight, so that makes sense.
I’m the same size as him, which will be a little different for him — he tends to like fighting people that are smaller than him, so he’ll have to make a little exception for that.
But I’m the first guy that he would have fought that is a knockout guy. I am a guy that has always been a striker, and I would be the first non-wrestler. I’m not quite a boxer. I’ve never boxed. I’ve kickboxed, 7-1 professional kickboxing, but I’ve never boxed. But I am a striker. So it might be the way he sees himself fighting next. I think it makes sense. There’s a chance.”
Alvey also has a personal beef with Paul following a sparring session a while back, during which the infamously optimistic “Smilin’” Sam Alvery referred to Paul as a “douche”. Alvey was recruited to help the Paul brothers train ahead of their boxing debuts half a decade ago, and Alvey was not pleased with what he saw.
“I wasn’t crazy about Jake. He was a douche. He was. I’m smiling Sam, I’m not supposed to be saying that. He was a douche. Logan seemed OK.
[…] I was supposed to spar his brother too, Jake. Jake wouldn’t do it afterward. I said, ‘Jake, I’ll take it easy, I’ll give you whatever work you want.’ But Jake wouldn’t spar me that day. And then I was never invited back.
Some of the stuff he was doing with the girls that were at our boxing day, it was bad. That bothered me. It was nothing terrible. It was just, yeah, he was doing stuff I was present for, and it’s like, they were fine with it but I wasn’t.
So that was kind of my big problem for the day. But his fighter pay thing — and people hate me for this because I think fighter pay is pretty good and I defend it fairly well — he goes after fighter pay, but he doesn’t do it because he believes anything. He does it because it’s an easy win, it’s an easy way to get people on his side.”
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