YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul recently endured his first loss in the squared circle, but he still believes he can get one over Conor McGregor. Paul discussed McGregor’s return to The Ultimate Fighter on a recent episode of the Impaulsive podcast and unleashed an expletive-laden rant at the former two-division UFC champion’s expense.
“Guess what, Conor? I’ll beat the f****** f*** out of you and you can’t box as good as me. I’m gonna do to Nate what you couldn’t, which is knock him the f*** out. You’re gonna be sitting there with your new beer company that’s failing, drinking it, drunk as f***, realizing that you pissed your life away drinking at the end of the bottle.
Jake Paul Promises to “f***** f** out of” Conor McGregor
You’re gonna say, ‘Damn. I really thought no one was gonna do what I did in this sport. I really thought no one was gonna be as big of a name.
I really thought I was gonna be the biggest forever.’ But you can’t choose and you can’t have both lives. You can’t have the fun, party, cocaine life, and be the greatest fighter in the world and you chose the wrong path.
That money fight will always be there and when I knock Nate Diaz the f*** out and you realize I’m the biggest fight for you, call me and I’ll answer. I’m my own boss, I make my own decisions. I’m not controlled by Dana White, I don’t have a dad. So, I can make the fight happen. If Dana lets you make the fight happen, then we can run it.”
Paul continued, calling McGregor an “alcoholic” and reiterating his plan for McGregor’s old UFC foe, Nate Diaz. Diaz handed McGregor his first UFC loss in their first meeting years ago, with McGregor tying up the rematch. The pair are currently 1-1 and a trilogy fight is high on most fight fans’ lists of dream matchups.
“I don’t think being an alcoholic is inspiring. I respect him, but I’m gonna f*** him up. That’s great and all [what he’s gone through] but this is the entertainment business so are we gonna be entertaining or are we gonna sit here and go, ‘I saw his doc and I respect him.’
It’s one of the biggest fights in combat sports that can be made right now and especially after I do what I do to Nate Diaz.”
One limiting factor for Jake Paul is that, while he fights around the 200-pound cruiserweight limit, McGregor’s career has largely taken place across the 145-pound and 155-pound featherweight and lightweight divisions, respectively.
The heaviest weight class McGregor has fought in was 170 pounds, still thirty below Paul’s towering six-foot-plus 200-pound frame.
While a McGregor vs Paul bout seems unlikely, far stranger things have happened in the world of combat sports.
