Jake Paul has a showdown looming towards Mike Tyson in November, however afterward he’s already set his sights on a matchup towards UFC mild heavyweight champion Alex Pereira.
The sudden callout got here after Paul dismantled and completed Mike Perry within the sixth spherical of their boxing match on Saturday night time in Tampa, Fla.
“Alex Pereira, you mentioned you wish to field, I’m the king of this,” Paul shouted from the ring. “Come over, we are able to make it occur. I need you Alex Pereira. I simply beat a BKFC champion. I beat a number of UFC champions. He mentioned he desires to field. Alex Pereira, after Mike Tyson, let’s make it occur.”
Whereas he was nonetheless standing within the ring, Paul truly related with Pereira over a Facetime name, the place he requested the Brazilian and his supervisor if Pereira might get out of contract with the UFC to make his little bit of fantasy matchmaking turn into a actuality.
It’s extremely uncertain the UFC would reduce up Pereira’s contract simply so he might go battle Paul, however the 27-year-old social influencer-turned-boxing fanatic insisted that he’s critical concerning the matchup.
Paul defined the genesis behind the callout at his post-fight press convention, which truly began after Anthony Joshua prompt that Pereira make the transition from MMA into boxing sooner or later.
“I need everyone,” Paul mentioned. “I like this sport. He’s tweeted about wanting to enter boxing. We obtained him on the Facetime proper there within the ring and I mentioned, ‘Yo, are you able to get out of your contract?’ If he can get out of his contract, then let’s run it. Once I requested him that, he needed to pause. He checked out his supervisor.
“These guys aren’t their very own bosses. I need all of the smoke, however on the finish of the day, will Dana [White] let him out? That’s too little bit of a threat if I might embarrass his No. 1 most praised fighter proper now.”
Pereira truly posted his facet of the in-ring Facetime name, however the sideways look towards his supervisor most likely wasn’t concerning the UFC CEO giving him permission to pursue the boxing match. It’s more likely that Pereira was making an attempt to raised perceive what Paul mentioned, as a result of he doesn’t converse a lot English.
Regardless, Paul doubled down on his callout as Pereira sits close to the highest of MMA’s pound-for-pound rankings following consecutive knockouts of Jamahal Hill and Jiri Prochazka.
“I need all of the smoke,” Paul mentioned. “I need all of the MMA guys and I’ve overwhelmed all of them. Who’s subsequent? He’s the king of the UFC proper now, so I need him. I’m going to decapitate him and dethrone him.”
In his response to Paul on Instagram, Pereira clearly didn’t blink on the callout. He answered with the identical terrifying enthusiasm he reveals anybody asking for a battle towards him.
“Let’s go,” Pereira mentioned. “Chama.”
