threatening legal action against anybody<\/a> claiming he was fixing his fights and he went as far as hiring high-powered attorney Alex Spiro to represent him in any potential litigation. Spiro, a widely respected lawyer with ties to numerous celebrity clients including Jay-Z and Elon Musk, promised \u201cconsequences\u201d for anybody making defamatory statements about Paul\u2019s boxing career.<\/p>\nOn Saturday, Morgan posted a new statement to Twitter clarifying his previous remarks regarding Paul\u2019s status as a boxer.<\/p>\n
\u201cI posted a few weeks ago that Jake Paul\u2019s boxing career has been \u2018boring staged bullsh*t,\u2019\u201d Morgan wrote on Twitter. \u201cWhat I meant is that his fights have been predominantly against older, past-their-prime opponents, which may be lucrative for both sides, and may have entertainment value, but don\u2019t reveal how he stacks up against currently ranked boxers and therefore are not a good look for the sport. I did not intend to suggest that the outcome was predetermined and certainly didn\u2019t mean to suggest anything illegal.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut if reports are correct that Jake is now in negotiations to fight Anthony Joshua, that would obviously be a seriously credible bout against one of the best heavyweights in the world. Jake is welcome to come on Uncensored to discuss this, and verbally slug it out with me, anytime.\u201d<\/p>\n
After Morgan posted his statement, Paul responded with one of his own on Instagram.<\/p>\n
\u201c[Oh my god] the first peasant that I sue gets on his knees and apologizes,\u201d Paul wrote. \u201cWho am I suing next for lying on my name?\u201d<\/p>\n
While Paul hinted at already seeking legal action against Morgan, online records didn\u2019t reveal any active lawsuits pending, although the Federal database can sometimes take several days to update records.<\/p>\n
Either way it seems Morgan preferred to publicly address his past comments rather than potentially go to battle with Paul in court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Piers Morgan may not like Jake Paul very much but that doesn\u2019t mean he wants a legal battle…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,711,49,48,701,82],"class_list":["post-59609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-latest-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}