NEW YORK – Jake Paul probably should just move on from his ill-fated fight with Tommy Fury if he beats Hasim Rahman Jr. on August 6 at Madison Square Garden.

The amount of time and resources that have been squandered since scheduling their grudge match twice in less than a year has aggravated Paul to the point that he realizes he should focus on other opponents. Part of the undefeated Paul wants to punish Fury in the ring for those two postponements, though, thus he hasn’t given up entirely on scheduling their fight a third time.

“I have mixed feelings about it,” Paul told BoxingScene.com following a recent press conference at Madison Square Garden. “It sorta depends what day it is. Like some days I wake up I’m like, ‘I wanna knock him out.’ Some days I’m like, ‘He’s just gonna back out again and waste all my time and money.’ ”

Fury was supposed to battle Paul on December 18 at Amalie Arena in Tampa, Florida. He pulled out of their Showtime Pay-Per-View main event approximately two weeks before they were scheduled to box, reportedly due to a bacterial chest infection and a broken rib.

Paul (5-0, 4 KOs) brutally knocked out former UFC welterweight champion Tyron Woodley (0-2), Fury’s late replacement, in the sixth round of their rematch December 18. Woodley lost a split decision to Paul in their first fight, which took place last August 29 at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse in Cleveland.

Paul-Fury was rescheduled for August 6, but for the second time in eight months, England’s Fury again failed to make it to the United States for a press conference to kick off the promotion. Once the 23-year-old Fury failed to partake in another press conference late last month, Paul and his handlers started searching for a replacement for this eight-round cruiserweight contest.

The 25-year-old Paul informed BoxingScene.com that he still hasn’t received a sufficient explanation, other than Fury’s vague visa issues, for why Fury couldn’t go through with their fight again.

“We don’t know if he actually went to the airport,” Paul said. “And then his dad came out and said he told Tommy not to do the fight because he was overweight and wasn’t training and all of this stuff. So, who knows what actually happened? It’s disappointing. I should sue him, honestly, because he wasted literally probably almost a million dollars worth of our time in that whole, entire process.”

Paul clarified that he doesn’t intend to pursue legal action against Fury for the money that has been wasted on promoting a pair of pay-per-view fights that didn’t materialize.

“No, no, I’m not that type of person,” Paul said. “I believe in karma and I know that’ll come to him in some other form in his life.”

Paul believes he has accepted a tougher opponent in the 31-year-old Rahman than he would’ve faced if Fury (8-0, 4 KOs) remained in their fight. Oddsmakers have still installed Paul as a 2-1 favorite to beat Rahman (12-1, 6 KOs), who was stopped in the fifth round of his last fight by James McKenzie Morrison (20-0-2, 18 KOs), a son of late WBO heavyweight champion Tommy Morrison, on April 29 at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas.

Keith Idec is a senior writer/columnist for BoxingScene.com. He can be reached on Twitter @Idecboxing.