Seattle Seahawks beat the New England Patriots<\/a>. <\/p>\nPaul said in a post on X that he turned off the half-time show because he could not support Bad Bunny and suggested that the six-time Grammy Award winner “publicly hates America”.<\/p>\n
WBA and WBO featherweight champion Serrano responded with her own lengthy statement, saying she was “celebrating with awe” at how Bad Bunny represented her culture before addressing Paul directly.<\/p>\n
“I am proud to be Puerto Rican, and I am proud to be an American citizen,” Serrano wrote. <\/p>\n
“Puerto Ricans are not ‘fake Americans’. We are citizens who have contributed to this country in every field, from military service to sports, business, science, and the arts, and our identity and citizenship deserve respect.<\/p>\n
“I would not have the opportunities I have without the support and belief that Most Valuable Promotions and Jake Paul showed in me, and I will always be grateful for the role they have played in helping change my life and in elevating women’s boxing. <\/p>\n
“At the same time, I want to be clear: I do not agree with statements that question the legitimacy or identity of Puerto Rican people, and I cannot support that characterisation. It is wrong.”<\/p>\n
Puerto Rico is an unincorporated territory of the United States. Puerto Ricans cannot vote in the election to decide the president but they do have American citizenship. <\/p>\n
MVP posted a statement on X, saying: “MVP stands for one thing and one thing only: our fighters. Whether you’re from Puerto Rico or anywhere else in the world, we proudly stand behind you and will always work to elevate you and the pride you bring into the ring.”<\/p>\n
Paul claimed his use of the word fake had been “misinterpreted”.<\/p>\n
“He’s not a fake citizen obviously [because] he’s Puerto Rican and I love Puerto Rico and all Americans who support the country,” Paul posted on X.<\/p>\n
“Moreso Bunny is fake [because] of his values and criticism of our great country.”<\/p>\n
Paul appeared to row back further on Monday with another post that said “I love Bad Bunny” and “what happened on my Twitter last night?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seven-weight world champion Amanda Serrano has said Jake Paul was wrong to call Puerto Rican singer Bad Bunny…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-417927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417927","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=417927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}