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This collage of photos shows Jake Paul and Gervonta Davis.\u00a0\u2014 Reuters\/AFP<\/p>\n
David Steven Sparks said Gervonta Davis can knock out Jake Paul if he lands clean, international media reported on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
YouTuber-turned-boxer Paul announced his next fight, and it will be an exhibition contest on November 14 against Davis.<\/p>\n
The announcement was unexpected and unusual because Paul competes in the 200-pound weight class, while Davis has never fought at more than 140 pounds.<\/p>\n
However, Davis, who is the WBA world champion at 135lbs, will not have his title at stake.<\/p>\n
David \u2018Flat Sparks\u2019, who had several fights between 2014 and 2016 and gained recognition for sparring with Paul in preparation for a fight against Mike Tyson, and also trained in the Mayweather Gym alongside \u2018Tank\u2019, said that Davis can knock out Paul if he lands right.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf [Tank] catch Jake Paul with a clean shot, he\u2019s very well capable of knocking him out. Do I think it\u2019s gonna happen? I don\u2019t think it\u2019s gonna happen, but he\u2019s very well capable of knocking Jake Paul out,\u201d David said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s not too small. I seen Tank stop all his sparring partners. I\u2019m talking about some dudes big like heavyweight, middleweight \u2014 Tank stopping them. If he catch a big man with a shot, he putting him out. I seen it with my own two eyes.”<\/p>\n
On his experience sparring Paul, he praised the YouTuber turned boxer, saying he can give shots and can take shots.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy first sparring session with Jake Paul, I was sleeping on him \u2026 I was going light and my man J\u2019Leon told me \u2018you can\u2019t play with this kid\u2019 \u2026 And that\u2019s when [Pau] caught me. And I said, \u2018nah, I can\u2019t play with him.\u2019 \u2026 He can give shots and he can take shots,” he added.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen it comes to him and Tank, he\u2019s gonna try to hurt Tank. They\u2019re both gonna try and hurt each other. I think Tank\u2019s best bet is use his boxing experience.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This collage of photos shows Jake Paul and Gervonta Davis.\u00a0\u2014 Reuters\/AFP David Steven Sparks said Gervonta Davis can…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,82480,82481,29886,26697,9225,1911,85,82482],"class_list":["post-116582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-david-flat-sparks","tag-david-steven","tag-davis","tag-gervonta-davis","tag-jake-paul","tag-paul","tag-sports","tag-wba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}