Alex Pereira and Jake Paul may meet within the boxing ring beneath Dana White’s needs, claims Henry Cejudo.
Jake has been terrorizing the game of blended martial arts since his rise to fame contained in the boxing ring. He has fought and crushed 5 former UFC athletes, with two of these being former champions within the promotion.
Following his latest win over Mike Perry, Jake Paul introduced his new goal. The 27-year-old desires to check himself in opposition to the UFC mild heavyweight king Alex Pereira, regardless of the Brazilian’s devastating knockout energy.
Dana White has been clear on not permitting his fighters compete in boxing, however that could be totally different now. Based on former two-division UFC champion Henry Cejudo, Dana would possibly see the positives in permitting ‘Poatan’ to take the struggle.
“Pereira would damage him, such as you see Pereira going up in opposition to heavyweights,” Cejudo mentioned throughout a latest episode of his Pound4Pound Podcast. “If Dana White will give a man like Alex Pereira the bag to freaking just about wipe him out say, ‘Hey man, go on the market and damage him.'”
“However that is an equal lot of pay-per-view factors for a man like Jake Paul… I feel I can see Dana White permitting Alex Pereira to take out the soiled work…”
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“Will the struggle with Alex Pereira occur? Dana White simply has to say sure and, you already know, we’ll not see Jake Paul, Jake ‘The Snake’ Paul, on our social media platforms.”
Take a look at Henry Cejudo and Kamaru Usman’s ideas on the struggle under.
Whereas the struggle might be a chance sooner or later, it appears the 2 have their sights set on totally different opponents right now.
Jake Paul remains to be hoping to reschedule his struggle in opposition to Mike Tyson for later this 12 months, whereas Alex Pereira has a title to defend.
Although his subsequent opponent or struggle date is but to be revealed, Magomed Ankalaev probably has the strongest case on the subsequent shot on the South American