Jake Paul took a shot at Nate Diaz as he continues pursuing an MMA struggle with him.
Paul (9-1) defeated Diaz by unanimous choice in a 10-round struggle final August, dropping the previous UFC star within the fifth spherical.
“The Drawback Baby” is at the moment slated for 2 boxing matches – towards Mike Perry in July then Mike Tyson in November. He continues to tease his MMA debut, which PFL CEO Pete Murray instructed MMA Junkie will probably occur in 2025.
“Nate Diaz is ducking me in MMA,” Paul stated on his on BS w/ Jake Paul podcast. “He’s truly ducking it, which is loopy. We upped to $15 million, however he truly doesn’t need to do it.”
UFC bantamweight champion Sean O’Malley, who was a visitor on Paul’s podcast, thinks Diaz could be an issue for Paul if the struggle hit the bottom.
“I don’t know the way a lot jiu-jitsu you understand,” O’Malley chimed in. “Nate’s a f*cking high-level black belt. In case you can maintain it standing, one hundred pc there are winnable methods there. If it went to the bottom, I believe he would possibly have the ability to seize your neck.”
Nonetheless, Paul isn’t nervous about Diaz’s energy – in grappling or placing.
“That’s precisely how I really feel about it,” Paul stated. “If I don’t get guillotined, then I win the struggle. However even when he was on high of me, I’d simply throw him off of me as a result of he’s additionally the weakest puncher I’ve ever fought. Like, when he was hitting me I virtually began laughing.
“I’m not even saying this to speak sh*t. Out of everybody I’ve sparred in my complete whole life and everybody I’ve fought, his punches are the weakest. I’m actually not even speaking sh*t, which is why I believe it’s humorous that he dropped Conor (McGregor) and sh*t as a result of it’s similar to, how?”
Diaz will step again into the ring when he containers Jorge Masvidal on July 6 in a Fanmio pay-per-view headliner at Honda Middle in Anaheim, Calif.
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