Jake Paul Vs Nate Diaz - Tony Bellew Makes BOLD Prediction For Jake Paul / Nate Diaz
0Jake Paul Vs Nate Diaz - Tony Bellew Makes BOLD Prediction For Jake Paul / Nate Diaz
Former WBC cruiserweight champion Tony Bellew believes YouTuber Jake Paul will have huge advantages in his hotly-anticipated mega-fight with Nate Diaz.
Paul is set to make his stunning return to the ring against former UFC star Diaz on 5th August after suffering his first professional defeat to Tommy Fury.
The 26-year-old YouTuber-turned-boxer suffered a split-decision loss in Saudi Arabia back in February, despite dropping Fury in the eighth round of their super-fight.
Paul had a rematch clause interested into his contract for the Fury fight but the ‘Problem Child' opted not to trigger it and instead set his sights on Diaz.
Of course, he [Paul] can be called a boxer: he's faced a professional boxer, he said.
He may have lost, but he's faced one. You know why he does what he does. And he sells and he talks an awful lot of nonsense, but listen, he's willing to get in the ring and try and back it up.
So, you can't really knock him. Going up against Nate Diaz. I mean, I fully expect him to deal with Nate Diaz.
Nate Diaz is noted as having half-decent hands in the UFC [and] in mixed martial arts.
Having half these hands in mixed martial arts, you're basically not even as good as a novice boxer.
So, you know, I don't think it's going to make too much of a difference to someone like Jake Paul.
Nate Diaz will be giving away an awful lot of size to someone like Jake Paul. Nate Diaz, someone who's a career-long lightweight and welterweight in the UFC which is, like, insane to think he can compete with a man who's 200-plus pounds.
Jake Paul [is] a bit of a… he's a lump -- he's not a full-blown cruiserweight like myself, stroking on a heavyweight.