\u201cI have no issue with Jake Paul and what he\u2019s trying to do and stuff like that, and I think if people, you know, don\u2019t think he should be ranked or whatever, that\u2019s not his fault. That\u2019s on boxing. He\u2019s filling a void, basically. He\u2019s filling up a gap in the market which someone else isn\u2019t and whether that\u2019s me, whether that\u2019s other boxers, whatever, he\u2019s filling a gap. We live in an attention environment, that\u2019s what the world is about right now. And he\u2019s very very good at what he does at his job \u2013 of marketing and branding and all that. So, yeah, no fighter is going to turn down a fight with that and that money because why would you? It doesn\u2019t make sense. That\u2019s why, if anyone\u2019s got an issue with Anthony Joshua, I understand the sort of integrity part of it but you\u2019re in boxing and the amount of grief people give boxers anyway, why shouldn\u2019t he take the most money for what should be the easiest fight of his career. I don\u2019t understand how you can\u2019t have an issue with Anthony Joshua for that. You can\u2019t have an issue with Jake Paul for creating that sort of money. <\/p>\n
“People always ask me \u2018Are you annoyed that you\u2019re not getting the same sort of level of money or audiences?\u2019 No, because that\u2019s my own fault. I haven\u2019t worked as hard as he has on social media on YouTube and all those things in the social world. So why should I be annoyed at him? I should be annoyed at myself. If I\u2019m annoyed at the situation, I have to be annoyed at myself for not doing that. I think that\u2019s what a lot of people tend to do. I think they almost get annoyed at him, but really they\u2019re annoyed at themselves. It\u2019s more of an internal thing, but I think it is wild and I think that that Jake Paul fight could easily happen with me. Do I think he\u2019d want it? Do I think I currently bring enough eyes to him? Probably not right now, but who knows. Never say never.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI have no issue with Jake Paul and what he\u2019s trying to do and stuff like that, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6102,10078,17029,6566,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-325904","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","10":"tag-boxingscene","11":"tag-chris-billam-smith","12":"tag-jake-paul","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325904","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=325904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}