Comments Thread For: Jake Paul's Boxing Future Remains a Mystery After Cryptic Post

[billeau2]

It’s really getting silly. But don’t underestimate this guy’s popularity with kids. Have to friends who bought the PPV cuz their mid-teenage kids wanted to see it

My younger boy is just turning 18 tomorrow... I have been trying to get him to watch a fight with me for ages!! My wife? She would watch if De La Hoya fought... gee, wonder why? (lol). Anyhow, my kid was interested in this fight because of the buzz, so I actually owe Jake Paul... He made for a very pleasant evening. And thats why he is so important, he is pulling a younger demographic into boxing. He is also showing fighters how to do it without having to deal with promoters...

Like a lot of energy rods, Paul himself is an average looking guy with probably an average IQ... who knows how to use social media... Not a great talent for sure, but good enough to do some good things for the sport.

[billeau2]

All I had to do was look at the join date. Hopefully when Paul bounces, he'll take these millennial casuals with him.

Those millennial casuals are the future of all things... boxing needs them to remain relevant. Boxing needs a way to get prospects to fight and move up the ladder, etc.

Most people from my generation got involved with fight sports because of Bruce Lee. They all thought that is the way you fight. was it silly? yes. But many of those people became great and understanding martial artists... never talk down to the casuals, we all have to start somewhere.

[Corelone]

The guy has at least 10s of millions. Medical expenses are the last thing he's worrying about.

That sounds familiar. El Diamante cut the ref off, mid count, and said, I got another job. Rich guys don't box.

[SUBZER0ED]

Sean Nam is a ****** idiot . Criticizing a young mans early boxing career , nobody fights world champions in their first 3 fights and the ones that do end up catching Ls just like Lomachenko lost to salido

BIG difference between Jake Paul and Vasyl Lomachenko and their respective careers.

[pugil1st]

Those millennial casuals are the future of all things... boxing needs them to remain relevant. Boxing needs a way to get prospects to fight and move up the ladder, etc.

Boxing will be fine. Every year someone proclaims that the sport is dying and every year we get great prospects and good fights with increasing purses. We don’t need some grifter to show us the way. I appreciate new fans but not fools who are jumping on to defend their YouTube con-man. In a few, they’ll be gone and someone like you will say boxing is dead and we’ll keep getting great prospects and good fights… and I’ll be here to watch.

[billeau2]

Boxing will be fine. Every year someone proclaims that the sport is dying and every year we get great prospects and good fights with increasing purses. We don’t need some grifter to show us the way. I appreciate new fans but not fools who are jumping on to defend their YouTube con-man. In a few, they’ll be gone and someone like you will say boxing is dead and we’ll keep getting great prospects and good fights… and I’ll be here to watch.

Youtube con man indeed... Not like the fine upstanding citizens we have like King, Arum, and other rogues that would make the rest hardened criminals blush... Boxing is what it is. it will always attract that element.

[jonnyc420]

Looks like he unretired, boxing journos look desperate and dumb. He playing games with them. No balls to call him out, just a rich kid beating on small non boxers too scared to fight an actual boxer who is his own weight. No drug testing was so overlooked just so they can talk about him. All he is missing is a WBA belt.

[breeto80]

Probably watched the fight video and saw just how much he ******...

Did Paul suck ? Sure he did. But the right guy got his hands raised. Whether Woodley was that bad , or Paul made him look that bad, I don't know, but Woodley looked absolutely horrific. Whatever that one judge was watching , I'll never know. Woodley mightve won 2 rounds max. Paul was beating him easily. When Woodley " looked good " in a round, he still didn't win it. He was being outpunched and frankly , outclassed by a YouTuber . Yes the fight was a joke , but the scorecards were a bigger joke. The fight wasn't even close. Because Woodley came forward alot , people get delusional. That was a classic example of totally " ineffective " aggression. Woodley is begging for a rematch for the cash and cash only. Not because he thought he won. Woodley thinks because he never got seriously hurt, he wins. He was in there , and that's it. He embarrassed the sport of MMA with that performance. He can't box worth a crap.

[Scopedog]

Fad boxer encounters a little difficulty in one of his fights after time on easy street, now wants to call it quits. Sad, many such cases

Basically no different than Freddy Flintoff's aborted boxing career in the UK, if anyone remembers that

[TMLT87]

Thank ****. Although i'd be surprised if he didnt at least do the Floyd fight considering the money involved and that they were already building it up before the Logan one.