Jake Paul believes that with sufficient time, he can hand Nate Diaz a defeat on the earth of combined martial arts.
‘The Drawback Baby’ scored his seventh profession win earlier this month, touchdown a unanimous decision victory over Diaz after 10 entertaining rounds of motion within the Lone Star State. Instantly following the bout, Jake Paul doubled down on his $10 million MMA problem to Diaz, suggesting they run it again contained in the PFL Sensible Cage subsequent yr. Diaz seemingly accepted the provide throughout his personal post-fight interview, however no official announcement has been made.
In fact, followers and fellow fighters had been fast to select Diaz within the potential rematch, and understandably so. The ‘Stockton Samurai’ has greater than 15 years of expertise in MMA whereas Jake Paul is but to step foot inside a cage. However that hasn’t stopped ‘The Drawback Baby’ from suggesting that with sufficient prep time, he’ll add one other win over the TUF alumnus to his resume.
“Not proper now, however in a yr perhaps,” Paul stated with amusing on his brother Logan’s Impaulsive podcast. “Actually, I’ll will it into existence and I’ll work so f*cking onerous that I can do it. The perfect half about is that MMA matches clearly begin standing up like a boxing match. He can’t damage me with punches, if his punches aren’t sturdy how are his kicks going to be. In fact, you will get a guillotine on somebody after they’re not anticipating it in a f*cking boxing match, duh.
Within the tenth spherical of their boxing class, Jake Paul tried to clinch up, permitting Diaz to seize his neck and cinch in a guillotine choke earlier than being damaged up by the ref.
Jake Paul on How Issues Will Play Out Towards Nate Diaz in MMA
Diaz will undoubtedly go right into a combined martial arts matchup with ‘The Drawback Baby’ carrying a determined benefit, however it seems that Paul has already satisfied himself that the very vast hole in MMA expertise gained’t matter.
“If I can put together for it, the loopy factor about it, I’ve performed the calculations in my head,” Paul stated. “We begin standing up. I study kicks, I learn to defend kicks. I’m beating his ass standing up clear as day in boxing. He tries to get near me, I can simply stick and transfer. He tries to take me down, my takedown protection and takedowns are higher than his. I’ve manner larger wrestling expertise than his. He’s not going to have the ability to take me down. He’s sluggish, so I’m going to see the pictures coming. Growth, block the pictures.
“He can’t take me right down to submit me. It turns into a standing match. Three five-minute rounds, simple. I simply fought for half-hour, that’s solely quarter-hour. I can work twice as onerous in half the period of time, expend twice as a lot power to maintain him away from me, whereas punching, not letting him take me down, and I’ll simply merely should be careful for his guillotine” (h/t MMA Fighting).
It’s attainable that Jake Paul may finally decide to take one other boxing match earlier than making his proposed MMA debut. ‘The Drawback Baby’ has lengthy been tied to a rumored bout with fellow social media star KSI. At the moment, KSI is scheduled to headline a Misfits boxing event in October, taking over the one man handy Paul a loss contained in the squared circle, Tommy Fury.
However irrespective of which route he chooses to journey from this level, Paul is optimistic that his inevitable MMA debut might be a profitable one. If given sufficient time to organize, that’s.
“Significantly, with eight to 9 months of coaching, I do know I can beat Nate Diaz in MMA,” Paul stated.
