Bob Arum has been promoting fights since Jake Paul‘s father was still in elementary school. Along with Don King, the former prosecutor has been the most important American boxing promoter for over five decades now. The Harvard alumni has worked with Muhammad Ali and has promoted legends like George Foreman, Floyd Mayweather, Oscar De La Hoya, and Manny Pacquiao, among others.
While he has been quite controversial due to some of his business practices, no one can deny he is a walking, talking history book of the sport, having started his stint in the golden era of boxing. So when the 93-year-old made a relatively anodyne comment about Jake Paul and the kind of opponents he fights, no one thought much of it. “But Jake Paul is not fighting a real fighter. Jake Paul is smarter than you and me combined! It’s not a scam, because people know what they’re getting, but he’s not interested in fighting somebody that would really give him a whipping,” the American promoter told ‘Fight Hub TV’ in a recent interview.
But the comment, coming from one of the legends of the boxing world, seems to have rubbed Jake Paul the wrong way. The former Disney star, who is set to fight 39-year-old former WBC middleweight world champion, Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., in June, took to social media and absolutely flamed the nonagenarian for criticizing him. “You women hating geriatric…you got dropped by ESPN. Lost Shakur, Teofimo and Crawford bc you’re greedy. Your team is getting sued for doing business with criminals. Keep my name out your dentures and keep pushing Nico Ali Walsh who is a ‘real fighter’ right?” Paul wrote on social media.
And Paul isn’t totally wrong here. Arum has been a bit dismissive about women’s boxing. “As good a fight as that is, come on, whatever reason it is, people don’t particularly pay attention to women’s fights,” the 93-year-old had said about the Katie Taylor-Amanda Serrano super-fight a few years ago.
And many of his best fighters like Terence Crawford, Teofimo Lopez, and Shakur Stevenson have left him recently on acrimonious terms, as did Floyd Mayweather almost two decades ago. But the promoter’s stand is still not too wrong either. Jake Paul usually does not fight tough competition. But ‘The Problem Child’ did try to change that, only for it to blow up in his face spectacularly.
Jake Paul reveals the real reason the Canelo Alvarez clash fell apart
Jake Paul was about to announce a super-fight with the boxing superstar, Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez, a couple of months ago. But just days from that announcement, it was announced that the Mexican superstar had signed a blockbuster four-fight deal with His Excellency Turki Alalshikh’s Riyadh Season, essentially betraying Paul at the last moment.
Speaking about the fiasco, ‘The Problem Child’ has claimed that Alvarez actually wanted to fight him, but was essentially blackmailed by Riyadh Season and its Saudi backers to not fight him. “We were on the 1-yard line and we got a pick 6… But I understand it, you know. Basically, they threatened to pull Canelo’s $300 million contract if he was to fight me. That’s how bad they want me out of boxing,” the 28-year-old told Ariel Helwani in a recent interview.
But the fact that Jake Paul was willing to fight Canelo Alvarez, one of the best fighters in the world, does somewhat prove Arum wrong. But then again, so far, Paul has almost exclusively fought past-their-prime MMA guys and a 58-year-old Mike Tyson, so there is good reason for Arum to question Paul’s willingness to fight dangerous guys. What do you think about Jake Paul and Bob Arum’s recent back-and-forth?
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