Jake Paul is eager to win over hard boxing fans by becoming Robin Hood for change

CLEVELAND, Ohio – For this sport that is so structurally divided, where a YouTube star like Jake Paul could become a legal payroll brand without too many barriers to getting into record time, boxing remains just as enjoyable for outsiders. in any sport.

Paul (3-0, 3 KOs) 24-year-old influencer, actor and activist hasn’t thrown any punches around the accepted desire among traditional boxers when the toughest test so far came in as a good boxing brand when he faces the former UFC. welterweight champion Tyron Woodley (Showtime PPV, 20.00 ET) on Sunday at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse.

Born in Cleveland and raised in the Westlake neighborhood with his two-year-old older brother, Logan, he made his Showtime PPV debut in June with Floyd Mayweather Boxing, Jake Paul comes to a kind of house he did well in the blue-collar city as a local boy. However, they are the fees he pays for making sure the weather transition for boxing was done properly, to still fight for respect among the tough goalkeepers of sweet science.

“I would love for the boxing community to fully embrace me,” Paul said after “Morning Kombat” Wednesday’s media training. “I think a lot of people already exist, but now it’s basically boxing purists who don’t really understand what I’m doing. I’d like that respect.”

From Paul’s point of view, he has shown due respect for the sport by continuing to support the spartan lifestyle of immersion for the rest of his life that training at this level requires, but also at the head of boxing. Puerto Rico’s training camp, led by former world title contenders BJ Flores and J’Leon Love.

Paul, who wore a personal hat inscribed “A Disney Child” on the front, can understand why those in power would initially be slow to delay his “Problem Child” as the main troll person in the online ridiculousness of his resume. He hopes, however, that if they look hard enough between his new job, another opinion can emerge.

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“I love boxing, I fell in love,” Paul said. “There’s something about kicking someone out or cracking someone in the face. It’s been a struggle all my life. I’ve never given anything away, so I feel like I’m at home. I feel like they put me in this. I like fighting on the ground and challenges. Challenges push me.

“Boxing is a 24/7 job. It’s training, sleeping, eating, recovering, not partying, not being distracted, not having girls. All of this makes the job harder. To market and twist things and use people to troll. In the beginning, arrogance, it sounds loud and nasty to me, but there’s a deeper thing in everything. ”

Just out of the shadowboxing inside the ring amidst the cheers of Cleveland’s Public Square fans, Paul couldn’t take a moment to reflect on what was sinking.

In the first fight of the Showtime PPV exclusive deal, he also gives 50% control over the broadcast and fight promotion as Paul wears a lot of caps to the toughest test of his young boxing career. A fighter in the history of the sport has not focused his commercial attention on what is only his fourth professional struggle.

“I couldn’t dream of this, that’s why I looked around. How am I here?” Paul said. “This is the city that made me and is the perfect crescendo of a newly started boxing career. Looking around, seeing friends and family and seeing this beautiful city, I’m having a good time and trying to soak it all up. You don’t get moments like this twice in your life.”

“This is more than a fight. It’s about my team, my friends, my family. I have a chance to make history and do something that very few people, once a century in this sport, do. I won’t live that and I won’t mess and slip.”

Paul, of course, has realized that boxing has been an important part of his reluctance to accept the strength of his participation after a trio of early boxer knockouts, which can be confused almost like something professional with former YouTuber AnEson Gibb. NBA Guardian Nate Robinson and retired MMA fighter Ben Askren.

Woodley’s move in the right direction for Paul is a challenge that will force him to take on challenges that will show his intentions to be truly real, but Paul has continued to receive criticism largely for targeting older and younger opponents, most of whom come from MMA and not boxing.

On Sunday’s underweight card, Tommy Fury is a reality TV star of light weight (6-0, 4 KOs) and WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury’s stepbrother, so coincidentally, is a potential opponent of the future on Sunday’s underlying card. it matters.

However, the interesting transition that Paul mentioned earlier is “there is a deeper thing in all things” among those who deserve the effort of backing boxing purists by removing the focus on the sport from Paul’s site. In an ironic turn, Paul has taken on the character of the modern day Robin Hood with the intention of improving things for the same people who are slow to accept things on their own.

It’s the issue of the salary of the first stumble fighter Paul hopes to use to change his platform, right now in MMA circles, especially for UFC fighters who feel they are underpaid. But Paul believes his voice – and more importantly, his actions – can help make changes in boxing.

“I didn’t plan on it but apparently I’m an advocate for that now,” Paul said. “[UFC] fighters cannot use their voices. If they talk about how the UFC fighters don’t pay, they’ll be put in jokes and side by side. Dana White isn’t going to fight them, so I’m really the only person on the platform who’s talking about it. And when I did that, everyone agreed with me, I said I was going to run more with this because it’s something I believe in.

“I think it’s something that needs to change, even for boxers. I took out a point on this card to take less money to make sure people on the card receive the highest salary days of their career. So I’m not just saying out loud, I’m taking action, I’ve never done it because it’s the hardest thing. I think it’s worth paying for. ”

Whether or not Paul defeats Woodley this weekend, he knows he will be uphill to ignite the hearts of everyone involved in the sport. But what he hopes his commercial success can do is serve as a worthy cross for the world champions around him or a rise in merit that doesn’t get the main attention.

“All I’m trying to do is take boxing between the two best sports,” Paul said. “I want [boxing] To take over the NBA, take it NFL and I want to take MMA because I think boxing in the past took a long time.

“I believe in light division [Ryan] Garcia, [Devin] Haney, Gervonta [Davis] – You add the heavyweight division and all the upcoming fights, and you and my brothers and all the YouTube creators who are into boxing, to make this sport the No. 1 pick. That’s all I’m here for. do “.