{"id":694726,"date":"2026-05-26T11:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T11:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/694726\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T11:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T11:19:10","slug":"sean-strickland-wants-to-fight-jake-paul-after-learning-how-much-money-he-makes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/694726\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Strickland Wants To Fight Jake Paul After Learning How Much Money He Makes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/MixCollage-25-May-2026-03-46-PM-404.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24039156\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">\u00a9 Troy Taormina-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>UFC champion Sean Strickland wants to fight Jake Paul after learning how much money Paul makes from boxing.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Paul was featured on Forbes\u2019 list of the highest-paid athletes after earning an estimated $70 million last year.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Canelo &amp; Jake Paul were the only two boxers to crack the Forbes\u2019 Top 50 Paid Athletes List\ud83d\udcb0 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gNh4OzoFiu\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/gNh4OzoFiu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Uncrowned (@uncrownedcombat) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/uncrownedcombat\/status\/2057868944447570286?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 22, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend, Strickland was featured on Nina Drama\u2019s live stream, and reacted to Paul being on the Forbes\u2019 list by wanting to get out of his UFC contract to fight him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI gotta leave the UFC and go beat up Jake Paul. That\u2019s it. Cut my contract, UFC. It\u2019s time for me to leave.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Sean Strickland wants to leave the UFC after seeing Jake Paul on the Forbes highest-paid athletes list \ud83d\ude2d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI gotta leave the UFC and go beat up Jake Paul. That\u2019s it. Cut my contract, UFC. It\u2019s time for me to leave.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TA2gxlnY9c\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/TA2gxlnY9c<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rh4ENU8eBp\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/rh4ENU8eBp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Happy Punch (@HappyPunch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HappyPunch\/status\/2058422482919404024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 24, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Strickland has talked in the past about fighting Paul to make more money.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I need to do is go f\u2013king beat up Jake Paul. I\u2019ll make more money f-cking up Jake Paul than I would my entire UFC career. How f\u2013ked up is that? 100% [I would fight Jake Paul], but like Jake Paul sucks. You take Mike Perry, how did that go? [Perry] comes into the gym, he spars me one round, one round, takes his sh\u2013 off, leaves the gym. He went to a decision with that man., bro. You f-cking suck and you\u2019ll always f-cking suck because you\u2019re a f*cking p*ssy. You will always and forever be a f-cking little d-ck influencer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Sean Strickland wants to fight Jake Paul \ud83d\udc40<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI need to go beat up Jake Paul. I\u2019d make more money f*cking up Jake Paul than my entire UFC career\u2026 Little dick influencer.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8YTje6CgH8\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/8YTje6CgH8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Happy Punch (@HappyPunch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HappyPunch\/status\/1928640723814846600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 31, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a9 Troy Taormina-Imagn Images UFC champion Sean Strickland wants to fight Jake Paul after learning how much money&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":694727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,5277,35696,82],"class_list":["post-694726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-jake-paul","tag-sean-strickland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694726","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=694726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}