![]() So Paul is making something of a career as a fighter, even though he has yet to face a professional fighter. Paul is able to garner the attention of a lot of people at the same time and, as Askren said, that’s what sells in combat sports. He helped sell a large percentage of the nearly 1.9 million pay-per-views that were sold for the Mike Tyson-Roy Jones card in November, according to Triller co-owner Ryan Kavanaugh. He has 20.3 million subscribers on YouTube, 14.8 million followers on Instagram and 3.8 million followers on Twitter. Whether that will impact interest in his fight is anyone’s guess, but he has an enormous audience and his fans are devoted. Paul, via a statement from his attorney, has denied the allegation. He will fight with the pressure of knowing that a TikTok star, Justine Paradise, has alleged that he forced her to perform a sex act without her consent. Paul is routinely referred to as a “YouTube sensation,” but he told Yahoo Sports he doesn’t consider himself a YouTuber any more. He’s going to make a million dollars to fight Paul, who has gotten notoriety because of his social media following. “I’m getting into a boxing ring, as funny as that sounds,” he said. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)Īskren is a decorated combat sports athlete who, after hip replacement surgery and a retirement from MMA, finds himself about a 2-1 underdog to Paul.Īnd Askren, who was derided during his MMA career for his poor striking, laughed about the notion of what he’s about to do. Jake Paul (L) and Ben Askren face off during a news conference for Triller Fight Club's inaugural 2021 boxing event on March 26, 2021, in Las Vegas. Nothing he said in his final media session summed up this event better than “whatever the we’re doing this weekend.” If you don’t understand that, you’re a moron.” If you can bring a bunch of eyeballs, they’re going to pay you a bunch of money. “In MMA and boxing and in whatever the we’re doing this weekend, celebrity fighting, it’s just not true. If his batting average is good and he hits some home runs, he’s going to get paid a whole bunch of money. The guy doesn’t have a big social media following, but it doesn’t matter. “I was talking to someone about a baseball player yesterday. “It’s very important for fighters to understand that the trash talk and social media and personality are very important to progressing your career,” Askren said. You won’t get paid for stats in fighting. ![]() The former UFC star and Bellator and ONE MMA world champion had his tongue planted firmly in cheek at times, but he was dead on the money when he began to discuss the need for fighters to understand how to promote fights.īaseball players, he noted, will get paid big money for putting up statistics. Paul is yet to respond to Paradise's video where she makes the allegations.He spoke of his desire to urinate in his own backyard, his body odor, how Dana White finally came to like him and how he watched Mike Tyson’s “bite fight” with Evander Holyfield in preparation for his professional boxing debut. SWAT teams entered Paul's $6.9 million Calabasas home and the Las Vegas mansion of his graffiti artist co-star Arman Izadi in a dramatic dawn raid.Īt the time, the FBI said there were no arrests during the searches, and Paul's lawyer, Richard Schonfeld, said he was out of California at the time. Last year in August, FBI agents raided his mansion while reportedly looking for video evidence of the Arizona mall looting he is linked to. ![]() Pual has time and again courted controversy. I would have liked to have an apology because that was messed up, and I didn't want that," she said. "I never got an apology or anything like that. Moreover, after the 'incident', Paradise said, Paul never spoke to her again after she reached out to him days later. Paradise, who has 524,000 followers on TikTok, said things started to escalate despite her saying "no" and soon Paul was on top of her when and allegedly forced her to perform oral sex. Normally, everybody respects me when I don't want to do sexual things, so I thought that it was fine if I went in his room," she said. "Sex is very special and very important to me. She said that she couldn't make these revelations so long as she had signed a NDA prior to entering Paul's Team 10 home as she believed that she wasn'ta llowed to speak. Paradise said that she still feels traumatized. Paradise allegedly tried to move her hands away, to which Paul allegedly replied: "If nothing's going to happen, what's the point?"
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