Jake Paul is once again teasing a foray into the world of cage fighting, and he already has his first potential opponent picked out.<\/p>\n
Paul has spent years beating up aged UFC legends in the boxing ring, and now he wants to round out his record with an MMA fight as well. He\u2019s in the midst of promoting his first mixed martial arts card on Netflix May 16h, featuring Ronda Rousey vs. Gina Carano. And on the undercard is Nate Diaz, whom Paul has revealed he still wants to fight.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cI want Nate in MMA,\u201d Paul told Theo Von in a recent video. \u201cIt\u2019s high on my list of priorities, to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n Paul and Diaz have already fought before in boxing, with \u201cThe Problem Child\u201d beating Diaz convincingly with 98\u201391, 98-91, and 97\u201392 scores. Nate would later claim he was badly injured and didn\u2019t bother to train<\/a> for their fight.<\/p>\n \u201cHe probably wants a certain amount of money to take the risk of losing to me,\u201d Paul added. \u201cI think it\u2019s gonna happen though.\u201d<\/p>\n The one thing standing in the way of Paul vs. Diaz, according to Jake? Diaz\u2019s current fight against \u201cPlatinum\u201d Mike Perry on the Rousey vs. Carano undercard. Perry has built a name for himself as bare knuckle boxing\u2019s \u2018King of Violence,\u2019 and we\u2019d pick him over the inconsistent Diaz in a boxing match any day.<\/p>\n \u201cI think he will [beat Perry],\u201d Paul said. \u201cI think he will take him down and submit him.\u201d<\/p>\n Will Diaz really take down Perry, though? Logically, it makes sense for Nate to do that, but the younger Diaz brother is unpredictable in and out of a fight. He recently turned down a trilogy fight<\/a> with Conor McGregor because he wants to fight Charles Oliveira. He turned down $15 million<\/a> to fight Jake Paul in MMA years ago. And yeah, we wouldn\u2019t be surprised if he refuses to take his fight with Perry to the ground.<\/p>\n If he manages to win on May 16th, though, Jake Paul says a Nate Diaz fight is his top priority.<\/p>\n \u201cIf he beats Perry, then me versus Nate is probably the number one thing on the list,\u201d Paul said. \u201cAbove Tommy Fury, above Francis Ngannou, above KSI.\u201d<\/p>\n Is it number one on Nate\u2019s list, though?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jake Paul is once again teasing a foray into the world of cage fighting, and he already has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-589207","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589207","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=589207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}