‘Dead serious’ influencer boxer to fight professional

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You Tuber-turned boxer Jake Paul is set to fight his first professional boxer in a cruiserweight faceoff scheduled for December 15.

Influencer Jake Paul (7-1) will fight Andre August (10-1-1) in a loaded 8-round bout at Caribe Royale Resort in Florida, USA. Paul looks to meet experience with athleticism—a likely recipe for defeat.

‘I think I could do it quickly because of my focus, my dedication, and my athleticism. It turns out I’m more athletic than 99.9 percent of boxers in terms of running, jumping, weight lifting, squatting, punching power,’ boasted Paul. ‘But, what I don’t have that they have is the decades of experience.

‘So, I’m on like this crash course to get all of those things, but it’s backed by this extreme athleticism. No boxer that has ever come to camp has beaten me in a jog, beaten me in a sprint, beaten me on the bench press, beaten me on the squats. So, that I have to my advantage, and I think I can get there in two to three years.’

In the past, Paul’s was engaged in fighting MMA artists. He presently wants to be a world boxing champion.

‘This is my road to becoming a world champion. When I’ve said that and uttered those words, I think people took it as a joke or, “He’s just saying that to market himself or make himself a bigger fighter or ruffle feathers and get media headlines and stuff,” but they didn’t actually think I was being serious,’ Paul said. ‘I’m dead serious. That is what I’m going to do and this is the step in that direction.

‘We’ve done the big pay-per-views. We’ve generated $200 million in sales, and this is now taking a step back from like business, and MMA fighters, and big names, to just grow my experience, to stay sharp, to elevate my level of opposition and to fight real pro boxers who have been doing this their whole life.

‘He’s more experienced than me, (has) more knockouts than me, (is) 10-1, a beast, and he’s going to come to fight.’

However, some think that Paul chose an easy fighter who has been away from the ring for a long time.