Famend fight sports activities journalist Ariel Helwani is uninterested in seeing MMA group crybabies go into meltdown each time Jake Paul wins a combat.
On Saturday, March 2, ‘The Drawback Baby’ scored his ninth profession win with a first-round end of Ryan Bourland in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Although he made fast work of his opponent, combat followers have been unimpressed with the victory and shortly lambasted Paul for combating one other no-name journeyman.
Providing his tackle the unsurprising backlash, Helwani recommended that Paul is combating the suitable opponents primarily based on his expertise degree and that the one ones who appear to have one thing detrimental to say about it are bitter MMA followers.
“Jake Paul is stealing all of the headlines. He starches Ryan Bourland. Everybody knew he was going to win. [Bourland] was not an impressive-looking man although he has a 17-2 report,” Helwani mentioned on Monday’s episode of The MMA Hour. “He simply didn’t fairly look the half and also you see all these folks on the planet of MMA that get so triggered by Jake and it’s attention-grabbing to match the response by the MMA group versus the boxing group which is rather like, ‘Yeah, okay. Cool. He received. Let’s transfer on.’ It hardly has a ripple impact.
“I believe a part of that’s as a result of the boxing group acknowledges that that is how boxing is, for higher or worse. Ninth professional combat, tenth professional combat, you’re combating folks like this. Go have a look at who Ryan Garcia fought in his tenth professional combat. Go have a look at Canelo, Usyk, Fury, and Joshua. It’s all these kind of guys. That’s how boxing is. You possibly can’t apply MMA logic to boxing logic. It’s a totally completely different format, however you see folks so triggered by this. ‘He’s a part of the issue’ and ‘He’s getting away with this.’ These are the identical individuals who mentioned, ‘Don’t combat MMA fighters’ and ‘Go combat somebody your age and ability set.’ After which he misplaced that combat.”
The combat Helwani is referring to is Paul’s conflict with the undefeated Tommy Fury, youthful brother to WBC heavyweight world champion Tyson Fury. ‘TNT’ earned a cut up determination victory over Paul of their February 2023 assembly. It was additionally the primary time that Paul had fought somebody who was described as a “authentic boxer” somewhat than ex-MMA stars.
It was Paul’s first try and hush a few of his haters and set up himself as a critical star within the sport. Since then, he has earned back-to-back first-round knockouts in opposition to professionally educated boxers. Regardless of that, ‘The Drawback Baby’ remains to be going through fixed assaults from the MMA group.
“That might have been the indictment, however now they’re saying, ‘Don’t combat these guys anymore. Return to combating the opposite guys.’ He can’t do something proper of their eyes,” Helwani added.
Ariel Helwani Dares MMA Media to Touch upon Tyson Pedro’s Retirement as a substitute of jake paul’s win
One other story that earned some consideration, although not practically as a lot as Jake Paul did, was the retirement of UFC veteran Tyson Pedro. The Aussie had received three of his final 5 however, following a loss to Vitor Petrino inside The APEX on Saturday, Pedro revealed that he could be laying down his gloves because it was not financially possible for him to proceed competing.
Followers have been outraged to be taught that an eight-year veteran of the UFC wasn’t making sufficient cash to help himself or his household… Till Jake Paul received his combat a couple of hours later. Then no one appeared to care about Pedro’s story anymore.
“If you’re extra fired up about Jake Paul beating Ryan Bourland in a boxing match,” Helwani mentioned. “If you’re making movies, sending tweets, and puffing your chest out… In case you’re extra fired up about that than what Tyson Pedro needed to say in his post-fight interview after he retired and mentioned that he primarily has nothing to his identify after all of the fights within the UFC. In case you’re extra upset about [Paul] and saying that he’s ruining the sanctity of boxing once you couldn’t give two sh*ts about boxing, you’re a part of the issue. You’re the downside.
“If you wish to be an MMA particular person commenting on this, touch upon that. Touch upon the Tyson Pedro clip. I dare you. I dare you to speak about that. I dare you to speak concerning the class motion lawsuit. I dare you. So, save me the takes. Save me the tweets. Save me your issues on how that is ruining fight sports activities. Touch upon how the sausage is made on the opposite facet of the fence.”
