Jake Paul is tough and brave

[TintaBoricua]

But that's not the case anymore. People were not buying into the Tank fight and his sales have dropped when it's a washed up boxer/MMA guy. Netflix were not going to pay him a lot of money unless it was a real fight or a novelty. His options were limited.

He said post fight he wants 'time out' now. He probably already decided he's had enough and took the biggest money fight.

I wouldn't be surprised to see him squeeze in Canelo for instance, but it'll only be cash out fights now. Netflix aren't going to pay for him to fight a washed up drunk

Paul is in an odd position following that shellacking. A lot of people are saying Netflix is now trying to insert itself into boxing. It’s not. They’re in it to make money or bring massive attention by hosting only the uber high profile fights. They’re not in the boxing business, they are more in the Jake Paul business mainly. The only card they hosted that DIDN’T involve Jake or his promotional company (like Taylor/Serrano 3) was Canelo/Crawford.

It’s going to be very difficult for Jake to move up the cruiserweight rankings “normally” because that would mean having to get Netflix (or some other distributor) to tentpole a fight of his against a #15 or #9 ranked fighter (who I’m sure don’t have a profile). And because of that, he’s going to have to take a massive pay cut or essentially make an absurd 90/10 purse splits with his opponents…and that’s IF Netflix (or whichever distributor) greenlights it. It’s odd. He’s built his profile so big taking on all these novelty fights…while having the capital to have world class sparring, trainers, and facilities…but now going forward if he DOES intend to chase a world title legitimately, he’s going to have to fight the fighters that no one can name without first looking at the rankings, and seeing if anybody is going to bankroll it.

It’s just too many hurdles to overcome unless he just plans to keep going the novelty route:

1. Find a top ranked opponent and hope he has an interesting enough backstory/record to promote to the higher-ups.

2. Find the willingness to go through another training camp with lifers especially after all that punishment he took last night.

3. Be willing to receive a massive pay cut compared to his Mike Tyson/Chavez/Joshua earnings.

It’s an odd position he’s put himself in. I don’t think he’s going for a world title. He’s got gumption, you have to give him that. But man, he was just SO wound up and tight in the ring and moving around that much he was just done. That was like when McGregor got to round 7 and you could tell from the body language he didn’t have any energy to tie up/hold and he was basically keeling over by that time.

[hugh grant]

It wasnt until joshs 15th fight until someone took him past 6 rounds. So jake did well. Or the heavyweight division is void of much talent.

[Smash]

so it was a farce what a surprise

[Sparked_26]

I think he's brave.

Anyone who didn't think he'd fight like that I can't really understand. I rarely get boxing right but that fight 100% went the way it was always gonna go because it was an obvious mismatch for 1 and a big man vs a little one.

Jake was always gonna move a lot, get quite low and AJ would have to adjust to someone basically running and making himself small and the obvious tactic for AJ as the big man was always gonna be to lean on. So even Jake Paul flopping to the floor I had no problem with - that was always gonna zap his legs alongside laps of the ring.

Jake Paul's brave because he has enough talent and athleticism to survive and because he was ALWAYS gonna gas and then he was always gonna be in a dangerous spot where AJ when faced with tired, smaller man could inflict serious damage. Which he did. I mean he got well compensated for it but let's not pretend like there isn't a scenario in that fight where AJ seriously injures Jake Paul.

I'm glad he didn't.

[elfag]

He went into the ring. He got up multiple times. Fair enough.

But he went in with the intention to run for 8 rounds and not throw a punch. It was embarrassing to watch.

I think we would all do that for $100m if we also had access to the best nutritionists and training teams for 6 years as well.

Some perspective needed I think.

He got up multiple times because he dove for the canvas without taking a punch to avoid an inside fight and run down the clock.

The only time he got knocked down from a punch he broke his jaw, didn't make the count and left with his teeth shifted half an inch

I don't get the weird psychology of the Paul Brothers they already got all the money they just need endless attention and public praise. Jakey was so happy he got an injury to prove he was "a real boxer". Like he wants to be legitimate after the fact but in the ring he was scared as hell diving for the canvas and running, he spent 95% of the fight out of range which when you have a 6 inch reach disadvantage means you have no intentions of winning.

He's not going to quit his brother is already claiming with a straight face that it was tied 3-3 in rounds at the time of the stoppage. Joshua was literally laughing in the ring when he saw that Paul was too tired to even run anymore. That was light sparring work for him.

[famicommander]

He should have just gone down swinging in the first round. He'd have earned far more respect. As it stands he ran around and tackled Joshua every time he got close, then still got his face broken anyway.

[elfag]

If you imagined these were two unknown club level fighters on the undercard I could see the ref taking points and warning of a DQ for all the canvas diving Paul was doing..when he was too tired to run any more and diving as soon as AJ got close and grabbed on to his thigh like a toddler that doesn't want to be separated from dad and left at day care

[elfag]

He should have just gone down swinging in the first round. He'd have earned far more respect. As it stands he ran around and tackled Joshua every time he got close, then still got his face broken anyway.

He was scared as hell in the ring. He wants all the praise and "proof" of being accepted as legit after the fact but in the ring in real time he doesn't seem to care about any of that it's all survival first

[famicommander]

He was scared as hell in the ring. He wants all the praise and "proof" of being accepted as legit after the fact but in the ring in real time he doesn't seem to care about any of that it's all survival first

He should've known Joshua would catch him eventually either way, though.

A KO was the inevitable result of this fight. Might as well take your medicine and go down swinging rather than running for your life and still getting your face broken anyway.

[gigiotto]

I read comments saying Paul is brave. He shouts to the world that he's a champion, but what has he done? He wins against ex-boxers, old men, drug addicts, journymen; the only time he's faced a real but poor fighter, he lost. Against AJ, he went down four times and stayed down to rest. And this is supposed to be a brave champion? Change sports, guys; boxing isn't for you. Joshua could have destroyed him in the first round, but he took pity on a fool. He survives only thanks to followers who have no idea what boxing is.