Daniel Cormier seems to have made amends with Jake Paul.
Again in 2021, Cormier and Paul discovered themselves on reverse ends of a heated feud. On the time, Paul was coming off a brutal knockout of Ben Askren and was hyping up a combat with Tyron Woodley, and doing so in a way that Cormier took umbrage with. As the meat continued to simmer, issues boiled over when Cormier and Paul nearly got into a physical altercation at UFC 261. Finally, the warmth between the 2 died down, and now, with Paul’s recent signing to the PFL, Cormier revealed he and Paul have squashed the meat.
“Jake Paul, right now, introduced that he has signed with the PFL,” Cormier mentioned on his YouTube channel. “A few weeks in the past, Jake Paul and I had been messaging one another about an look on my present, DC & RC, and we had been going forwards and backwards speaking about his future, and actually, Jake and I’ve had some run-ins. However after I began messaging him, he’s a child that’s very respectful. We had respectful conversations, we actually did. We didn’t argue, we didn’t combat.
“He’s a child that, he has an thought of what he desires to do. Now, these youngsters right now are totally different. It was like [Israel] Adesanya with [Jon] Jones. The place I’d sort of maintain again, Adesanya would simply say no matter it’s he wished to say about Jones. If there was an accusation, he would levy the accusation even when they hadn’t confirmed it true. That’s what youngsters like Jake Paul do right now. He’s very boisterous, he’s very verbal, he speaks massive, however he was respectful.”
Over the previous 12 months, Cormier’s tune on Paul had modified considerably. He’s admitted that Paul has accomplished an excellent job of selling fights and that he’s clearly bettering as a boxer, however Cormier was nonetheless among those loudly calling for Paul to problem Anderson Silva within the ring, as a substitute of different smaller former MMA fighters with no boxing expertise.
However now that Paul has accomplished that, having gained a unanimous determination over Silva in October, it seems he’s absolutely earned Cormier’s respect.
“However will Jake Paul truly combat within the PFL?” Cormier requested. “A whole lot of boxers say they’re going to combat, however the by no means truly do. Right here’s the factor about Jake Paul although: He’s from Ohio, a wrestling hotbed. Ohio has among the finest high-school wrestling in the complete nation.
“Jake Paul was a high-school wrestler there and so was his brother Logan, and so they weren’t dangerous. So though it appears as if Jake Paul does plenty of issues to drum up curiosity, I consider this one. He’ll truly combat.”
