JAKE PAUL continued his constant search for a boxing match with Conor McGregor by direct messaging the UFC superstar on Instagram.
The YouTuber revealed his eagerness to take on McGregor just days after scoring a sensational second-round KO win over Nate Robinson on the undercard of Mike Tyson’s exhibition bout with Roy Jones Jr. late last year.
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And last July, the 24-year-old doubled down on his desire to box McGregor in a scathing rant on Instagram, in which he claimed that his team had made the UFC poster boy a whopping £37million ($50million) offer. sent it.
McGregor refrained from responding to an X-rated call-out in which Paul made derogatory remarks about the Irishman’s fiancée, Dee Devlin.
And in another attempt to get the attention of the former two-division UFC champion, Paul — whose older brother Logan stepped into the ring with Floyd Mayweather — sent The Notorious a short and sweet direct message on Instagram.
Paul’s message read: “Take the fight cat.”
After sharing his DMs with McGregor, Paul launched a scathing rant at UFC president Dana White, who revealed he was set to see women’s bantamweight and featherweight queen Amanda Nunes fight the former Disney star.
He added: “Okay, Dana, let me try to understand your reasoning here: So you’re saying you don’t want me to fight Conor McGregor because he’s one of the greatest fighters in the world and I’m a YouTuber. I’m like. Whatever.
“But then, in a statement today, you say: ‘Oh, I’m just thinking about kicking Amanda Nunes out.’ But he is also one of the greatest.
“Dana, you feel like you hate videogamers or YouTubers and influencers and us boxing and all these things.
“But then, you spend half your time hanging out with the Nelk Boys. And I know why. It’s because they have a hella influence on the male audience and you know it’s going to promote the UFC.
“And right now, baby, there’s no one in this f***ing world promoting UFC as much as me.
When you type in Conor McGregor, when you type in UFC, when you type in Dana White, millions of views, the number one search result on Google. So you don’t understand here.
“Dana, I know the world doesn’t really know this because the UFC is such a big company. But we all know it’s not doing that well.
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“Anyone who is involved in WME and all the public stocks and everything that goes south out there, we know the company isn’t doing well. And I’m going to have the biggest money fight until Khabib comes out of retirement.” I can
“So if you want the UFC to make as much money as possible, you better start waking up the f**k and realize that at some point there’s going to be Jake Paul vs. Conor McGregor.”
Paul’s rant at White came after he ambushed McGregor’s teammate Dylan Dennis and threw water balloons at him.
Paul may very well be a combat sport novice, but he is well and truly at the center of the boxing and MMA worlds at the moment.
