In a matter of days, Jake Paul fights Tyron Woodley.
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Jake Paul‘s subsequent struggle is merely days away now. On August 29 Paul faces Tyron Woodley, a former UFC champion. This could possibly be fairly the step up in competitors. The struggle can be obtainable to observe on Showtime PPV.
Just lately Showtime launched the first episode of All Access, centered on the struggle. For those who’re searching for an intro to the struggle, the fighters themselves and behind-the-scenes footage of preparation, you might do loads worse.
2021 been an enormous 12 months for the Paul brothers. Again in June, Logan Paul fought boxing champ Floyd Mayweather Jr., in what was hardly the fight of the century. Now, Jake Paul will fight mixed martial artist Tyron Woodley. And when you want a bizarro purpose to observe, the loser has to get a tattoo proclaiming their love for the struggle’s winner. What within the title of Mike Tyson’s face tattoo is even happening right here?
When is the struggle?
Mark your calendars for Aug. 29 at 8 p.m ET/5 p.m. PT. The massive occasion can be held in Paul’s hometown of Cleveland, at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse.
Methods to watch Jake Paul vs. Tyron Woodley
The struggle will air on Showtime pay-per-view, that means you do not must be a daily Showtime subscriber to pay for and watch the struggle.
Showtime Sports activities President Stephen Espinoza told MMA Fighting on Aug. 2 that the struggle will value viewers $59.99. Not low-cost.
“That displays a few issues,” Espinoza stated of the worth. “It is within the ballpark of the place comparable fights have been. It’s at some extent under numerous different larger priced PPVs, however specifically on this one, I feel you’ve got obtained a full boxing card of thrilling younger fighters. That was the important thing.”
Showtime’s fight page now could be up to date with tips on how to purchase the struggle. When you pay your $60, you possibly can livestream the struggle on a ton of supported gadgets. You possibly can watch in your laptop at Showtime.com, in your cell phone or pill, or in your TV and streaming gadgets, comparable to Roku, Amazon Fireplace TV, Apple TV (4th gen and up), Android TV and Xbox One.
You can too order the pay-per-view struggle through such suppliers as Xfinity, Spectrum, Contour, Verizon Fios, Optimum, Vubiquity, DirecTV, U-Verse TV and Dish. Canadians can order it by way of Rogers, Bell, Shaw, SaskTel, and Telus. It additionally could be streamed through Sling, Sony’s PlayStation Retailer, and Fite TV within the U.S. and Canada.
A press release from occasion organizers says that an unique UK broadcast associate can be introduced quickly. Fox Sports activities will carry it in Australia and Sky Sports activities in New Zealand.
There additionally can be a stay viewers on the Cleveland enviornment. Tickets begin at $10 and went on sale to most of the people on July 22.
Press convention particulars
With huge fights like these, press convention and staredowns are virtually as huge a circus because the fights themselves. Jake Paul himself posted some particulars of what to anticipate this coming week.
FOR EVERYONE ASKING
EASTERN STANDARD TIME
AUG 26TH PRESS CONFERENCE: 1PM
AUG 28TH WEIGH IN: 5PM
AUG 29TH FIGHT: 7PM— Jake Paul (@jakepaul) August 15, 2021
The press convention takes place at 1 p.m EDT (10 a.m. PDT) and can in all probability be value watching. To look at your greatest wager can be Showtime Sports official YouTube page.
Why is the struggle taking place?
The Paul brothers, Logan and Jake, are each YouTubers turned boxers, which looks like an odd profession path, however it’s what it’s. For one factor, they’re younger. Jake Paul is 24, and Logan Paul is 26, so they have youth on their aspect, plus their YouTube money provides the choice to do no matter they need with their free time. And what they need, apparently, is to beat individuals up and get beat up in return. These fights aren’t all the time for the report books, however for the financial institution books. (Logan Paul’s June bout with 44-year-old Mayweather was merely an exhibition.) Whereas Jake Paul has fought three skilled bouts, and received all of them, his opponents weren’t skilled boxers at their prime. Paul beat YouTuber AnEsonGib, former skilled basketball participant Nate Robinson and retired MMA fighter Ben Askren. (That last one was quick.) And all the Paul brothers’ fights draw headlines and chatter, and add to their fame and financial institution balances.
Woodley talked some trash about Jake Paul on the Askren struggle, and that led to the deliberate Paul-Woodley struggle.
“Best struggle of my profession and largest purse of my profession multi functional night time,” Woodley stated of the Paul match, according to ESPN. “Principally, they introduced me in to take out the trash.”
Struggle particulars
Fighters will weigh in at 190 kilos, which is what Paul weighed when he took down Ben Askren in April in a whopping two-minute-long fight. Woodley fought within the UFC at 170 kilos.
Paul stands at 6-foot-1, and Woodley at 5-foot-9. Paul is listed with a 76-inch attain to Woodley’s 74-inch attain.
The fighters will put on 10-ounce gloves and struggle in a 20×20 ring, ESPN reviews. The struggle is scheduled for eight rounds.
Tattoo you
The 2 fighters have a creepy bet driving on the result. If Paul loses, he has to get “I like Tyron Woodley” tattooed on him someplace, and if Woodley loses, he has to get “I like Jake Paul” as a tattoo. (Each fighters are already tattooed, so yet one more will not precisely be a novel idea.)
Whoever will get the tattoo, you simply know there will be loads of publicity concerning the precise tattooing itself, to not point out images of the ultimate embarrassing product. (Sensible tattoo artists within the Paul-Woodley circle are in all probability already excited about tips on how to finally cowl up or disguise the message.)
Second struggle? TBA…
Regardless of the final result, Woodley already thinks one struggle will not be sufficient.
“We’re in all probability going to struggle twice, to be trustworthy,” he said.
Paul is not so certain about that second struggle.
“I am not going to struggle Woodley after I beat him,” Paul stated, according to the LA Times. “There is not any level, you understand. I am gonna end him violently, so there will not be a struggle two.”
Who’s Jake Paul?
Jake Paul is the youthful of the 2 Paul brothers, and along with his web movies, he is identified for enjoying Dirk Mann within the Disney Channel present Bizaardvark. He started his boxing profession in 2018 and has received all three of his skilled bouts.
Like his brother, he is controversial. In July 2020, he made headlines for throwing a giant party in Calabasas, California, in the course of the coronavirus pandemic. Requested concerning the get together, he told a reporter for The Daily Beast that COVID-19 was a hoax, then later denied saying it, resulting in the reporter posting audio proving Paul did make the hoax feedback. In that very same interview, Paul additionally claimed “98% of reports is faux” and falsely claimed that “medical professionals” say masks do nothing to guard in opposition to the virus.
He would not simply make headlines at his personal occasions. Jake Paul’s brother, Logan, fought Floyd Mayweather Jr. in June, and in Might, at a promotional occasion for the struggle, Jake Paul mouthed off on the fighter and snatched Mayweather’s hat. He then started selling black baseball caps with the phrases “gotcha hat” printed on them.
Who’s Tyron Woodley?
Woodley, 39, began in MMA again in 2009, turned UFC welterweight champion in 2016 and defended his title 4 occasions, dropping it in 2019.
Like Paul, he has an leisure profession as effectively. He is appeared in quite a few motion pictures in small roles, and has hosted a podcast and a TMZ web show.
Woodley says this can be his first boxing match, however it will not be his final.
“On the finish of the day, I am in boxing proper now,” he stated, according to ESPN. “(Paul’s) my first opponent. That is your first and all people else’s first probability to observe me field.”
Co-main occasion and undercard
There’s one different huge struggle on Showtime’s card for the night time, plus three smaller ones. Featherweight world champion Amanda Serrano (40-1-1) will tackle tremendous bantamweight world champion Yamileth Mercado, who’s 18-2-0.
“Not too many individuals need to struggle me. It may be an awesome struggle,” Serrano stated, according to World Boxing News.
Mercado stated she started her profession at featherweight earlier than happening to bantamweight and is worked up to struggle in her previous weight class once more.
“We will depart all of it within the ring, and the women are going to be stealing the present,” she stated, in response to the World Boxing Information report.
Whereas the Serrano-Mercado struggle is being billed as a “co-main occasion,” there are additionally three fights on the undercard. Ivan Barancyhk will struggle Montana Love, Daniel Dubois will tackle Juiseppe Cusumano, and Tommy Fury will struggle Anthony Taylor.