With Paul vs Tyson finally on our screens, how can Jake Paul capitalize on a win?
If you’re tuned in to Netflix and streaming Paul vs Tyson, then you’ll have heard Jake Paul claiming he could be the fastest boxer to become a world champion… but how much truth is there to that statement?
Well, if he wins tonight then that dreamland statement could actually become reality – which sounds crazy when you think his professional debut came just four years ago against a YouTuber.
Only two years before then he stepped in the ring for the very first time in a white-collar boxing match against KSI’s brother Deji Olatunji – again, also a YouTuber.
He’s come a long way since then and is now fighting professional boxers, and of course Mike Tyson – the former two-time champion of the world.
Paul said: “I’m going to become a world champion way faster than people are expecting.”
But it is the current cruiserweight world champion Noel Mikaelian who has offered him the chance.
Speaking to The Sun earlier this year before the initial Paul vs Tyson fight was postponed, Mikaelian said: “I watched him against Tommy Fury in Saudi Arabia last year and I expected much more.
“I thought he would bring a bigger crowd and that would be much more of a star. But it wasn’t as huge as I thought.
“But looking forward to next year, if he wants to fight for a world championship, it will be quite difficult. He has to first beat somebody in the top 15 to get ranked. And then – he’s got to give me that Hawk Tuah and spit on that thing – then I’d do a voluntary defence against him.
Could Jake Paul really be a world champion one day? (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Adding: “I would play around with him and enjoy it and it would be very lucrative for me too. So I would embrace that if he wants to fight for a title.”
It was only last year that Mikaelian gained his belt, taking on Ilunga Makabu and stopping him in the third round.
The Armenian continued: “It could be dangerous, of course. He can get knocked out, it can happen to any fighter,” he added. “But he doesn’t have the experience to obviously fight somebody like me or any other champion in the cruiserweight division or Canelo [Alvarez] or something.
“That would be like, I don’t want to say suicide, but it will be it could be dangerous. Boxing is a dangerous sport, an average 15 people die a year from boxing matches. So many concussions, brain injuries. So boxing is definitely a dangerous sport and it could be dangerous for anyone.”
So there you have it Paul, beat Tyson and you could actually set up a world champion fight next year.
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