The odds are out for a potential Jake Paul vs. Sean Strickland boxing showdown, and they did not open in the UFC champ\u2019s favor.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you want your fair share call MVP when you are free,\u201d Paul tweeted. \u201cSean Strickland I see your texts but are you out of contract? Tell your \u2018promoter\u2019 to call MVP.\u201d<\/p>\n
Paul then shared an extensive new hit list of people he wanted to fight before retiring from combat sports. Sitting in the fourth slot right after \u2018Conor McGregor (Boxing & MMA)\u2019 was Sean Strickland \u2026 and the bookies have Sean as the underdog.<\/p>\n
BetOnline.ag<\/a> has the opening odds with Jake Paul at -170 and Sean Strickland at +140. That gives Paul a 63% probability of winning a fight between the two.<\/p>\n Sean Strickland is exactly the kind of opponent Paul likes:<\/a> an aging MMA fighter with zero pro boxing experience. Strickland gets bonus points for also being pretty beat up and injured, and for being smaller. While Sean fights at 185 pounds (and used to fight at welterweight), Jake Paul weighed in at 216 pounds for his last fight.<\/p>\n What we\u2019d really like to see is odds on whether the bookies think this fight will ever happen. Strickland is under contract with the UFC, and the promotion isn\u2019t about to let him go and fight Paul. While Strickland has suggested he might drop the belt and burn through his remaining bouts, that\u2019s not something that would happen quickly,<\/a> or without a fight from the UFC.<\/p>\n If we had to bet, we\u2019d say it happens in 2028 at the earliest or not at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The odds are out for a potential Jake Paul vs. Sean Strickland boxing showdown, and they did not…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":925434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,33601,82,17056],"class_list":["post-925433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-sports","tag-ufc-odds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925433","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=925433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/925434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=925433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=925433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=925433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}