{"id":253865,"date":"2025-11-09T22:47:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T22:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/253865\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T22:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T22:47:08","slug":"jake-paul-floats-fantasy-fight-against-alex-pereira-his-team-is-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/253865\/","title":{"rendered":"Jake Paul floats fantasy fight against Alex Pereira: \u2018His team is down\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

With Gervonta \u201cTank\u201d Davis out<\/a> of a big Netflix fight against Jake Paul, \u201cThe Problem Child\u201d is looking far and wide for a new opponent to compete against. Hanging in the balance is a lucrative payday from the streaming network, and the wrong choice could lead to dud viewership that might cut Paul off from future eight figure Netflix paydays.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no shortage of big names out there that Paul would like to face. Actually getting someone to agree to a fight is more difficult.<\/a> In a new interview with ESPN,<\/a> Paul lists off a wish list of potential opponents like Terence \u201cBud\u201d Crawford, Canelo Alvarez, KSI, and Anthony Joshua. On the MMA side of things, Paul is done chasing Conor McGregor<\/a> and is now aiming his sights at UFC light heavyweight champion Alex Pereira.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cHis team is down,\u201d Paul claimed to ESPN. \u201cI think the only thing preventing it is the UFC and if these guys can get out of their contracts to fight me. It would be a massive fight at some point, and I know he\u2019s down to make it happen. People are telling me to fight someone my own size. OK, how about I fight somebody who is bigger than me? His size makes him a tougher challenge than Crawford.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s the most dangerous fight for me right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also one of the most unlikely. Saying the UFC is the only thing preventing you from fighting Pereira is like saying the only thing preventing you from going to Mars is the distance. The UFC isn\u2019t in the business of lending out its superstars, and even Conor McGregor had to fight tooth and nail (and reportedly give up 50% of his purse<\/a> to the promotion) for the privilege of fighting Floyd Mayweather.<\/p>\n

Most Valuable Promotions co-founder Nakisa Bidarian suggested UFC\u2019s refusal to let Pereira fight Paul was an indicator of UFC CEO Dana White\u2019s fear Jake might win.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think many would dismiss it and say Pereira would kill Jake Paul,\u201d Bidarian said. \u201cBut somebody should ask Dana White and see what he says. If Dana White ever actually felt comfortable that one of his martial artists could beat Jake Paul, he would 100 percent endorse it because no matter what Dana may say, there\u2019d be nothing he would enjoy more than seeing Jake Paul lose.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s not exactly correct. What he\u2019d enjoy doing more is sticking it<\/a> to Paul and Bidarian on the business side by denying them the attention and profits that would come via a Paul vs. Pereira fight. Pereira is on track to make the UFC a ton of money in 2026. They don\u2019t need to muddy the waters by including Paul in any of their plans.<\/p>\n

So we\u2019d place the chances of this coming together as somewhere between the 0% to 1% region, leaning way closer to zero.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With Gervonta \u201cTank\u201d Davis out of a big Netflix fight against Jake Paul, \u201cThe Problem Child\u201d is looking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,30874,101,914,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-253865","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-boxing-news-results","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-ufc-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}