The Truth About Jake Paul’s Boxing Career

Just this past weekend, Jake Paul knocked out Ben Askren on Triller, a “boxing promotion” headed up by I think Snoop Dogg and Oscar De La Hoya. If you guys caught any of this broadcast, I hope you were at a bar because listening to the event is enough to make anyone regress in their maturity, English but at least increase their tolerance for absolute garbage.

What a horrible show that was! I guess there may be an age group somewhere around the 13-15-year-old range that can get into it but what can I say? I tuned in like the rest of us to see what would happen in the main event.

I surely wasn’t going to watch the walk outs and turns out, I was a minute too late and missed the knockout live. No worries, though. We have seen the replay several times now and it appears that Jake has some solid speed and timing.

With those two working synergistically, you don’t need a lot of natural power and/or heavy hands to knock people out. The accuracy of the punch was also on point. I guess it’s hard to miss that Leno chin but that straight right hand was on the button.

I bet this number rivals or even beats his career earnings in the sport of MMA. Jake Paul is now an even bigger star, though, and this man is going to make a lot of money. The hardcore UFC fans and fighters aren’t big fans of any of this but they don’t have to be.

There are enough people out there that either love the guy, for some reason, or they genuinely want to see him get thrashed and/or punched unconscious.

The question we have to ask ourselves, though, is “What is the truth about the boxing career of Jake Paul?”. And remember if you want to learn how to bet on boxing, just check our complete betting guide.

Who is Jake Paul?

Jake Joseph Paul was born in the blue collar city of Cleveland, Ohio not that long ago in 1997. The 24-year-old has been a success for his entire adult life. Heck, even before that…

He was just 16 when he began posting short videos on the old app Vine. By the time that the Vine app was discontinued, Jake had amassed over 5 million followers and more than 2 billion views on all of his videos.

He took his show to YouTube and now has over 20 million subscribers. After years of building his brand on the various social media outlets, Jake Paul, along with his brother Logan, took their talents to the boxing ring.

They were set to fight fellow Youtuber brothers KSI and Deji, the latter being the younger brother who Jake fought and defeated. Older brother Logan didn’t get the win, though.

That was technically an amateur fight for Jake and his first professional win would come over another Youtuber AnEson Gib. I have no earthly idea who these people are and I’m okay with that.

This was a first-round TKO and Jake was beginning to show that he at least has some talents and appears to work hard at his craft. People would respect and like him more, though, if he wouldn’t talk so much trash.

Where is the fun in that, though? You don’t have to like him but I think the young man is a lot smarter than people give him credit for and knows what he is doing.

Jake got the biggest break yet in his brief “boxing career” when he was offered a spot on the Mike Tyson vs Roy Jones Jr undercard. He was to fight former NBA player Nate Robinson. Sounds like a tall task, if you pardon the pun but anyone who knows Nate understands he is about 5’9” soaking wet.

Are you starting to see a trend here? He fights an NBA player, a professional athlete, but the guy is one of the smallest players in the last 20 years. Jake flatlined him, though. We can give fighters of any level a hard time for fighting scrubs but if they are going out there and finishing them quickly, we have to still give them some credit.

Then, Paul gets the Ben Askren fight scheduled and they are to be the headliners on another Triller show. Ben sells the fight well as he always does in his relaxed and arrogant matter. One thing that surprised me in the build-up to the fight was how Jake let Ben mush him and only returned with a half-hearted slap on the butt.

You can jump ahead to the 1:50 mark for the action. This really made Jake look like a punk or another word I will refrain from saying today. We still don’t know anything about his heart. That is what I want to see tested.

Get this guy into the later rounds and when you’re tired, whew, it makes everything that much worse. Getting beat up isn’t that bad but getting beat up and you can’t breathe, that is what breaks UFC fighters all the time, the guys and girls who are supposed to be at peak mental strength.

We haven’t seen that yet, unfortunately, with Jake Paul but hopefully soon. He has made quite a few callouts since his big win over Askren not even a week ago. I think he called out Daniel Cormier.

Paul is wild but that’s who he is. You can’t let him make you mad in the buildup to a fight or you will go out as Jose Aldo did against Conor McGregor.

Jake is a smart young man as we can see and he has a team of even smarter people around him. That is how you stay successful. You get successful from hard work but you stay there by surrounding yourself with people smarter than you.

I promise you that his next opponent will be some sort of anomaly like the last two. If he just fights a no-name pro boxer with about the same level of experience, how well would that sell?

Let’s Play Matchmaker

Jake has called out Tommy Fury, the brother of world champion Tyson Fury. I really don’t think Jake wants that gypsy smoke. He will be seeing little birdies circling his blonde mop that’s on top if he makes that big of a step up this early in his career.

Jake has had a feud going for a while on social media with Dillon Danis, a world-class Jiu-Jitsu fighter who is young in his MMA career. Dillon is more famous in the MMA community for training closely with Conor.

I think Danis smashes him up pretty nicely if they fight. This is one of the more likely possibilities because Danis is not a UFC fighter. I say this because Dana White has recently come out and said that none of his employees will be getting involved in the Jake Paul sweepstakes, no matter how bad they want to.

You can’t blame them. It’s a massive payday and easy money. They would also be heroes to the MMA community but Dana is saying no and this one goes deep with Oscar De La Hoya so I don’t think the boss will budge.

I am even hearing he might fight Matt Brown if The Immortal retires from MMA first. It would be a smart move by the elder statesman financially, of course. Please do it, Matt! Do it for the MMA community!

That, I would pay 100 dollars or more to see if I had to.

Whoever Jake Paul fights next will have to deal with a young, athletic, hungry, and increasingly technical boxer in front of them. Is he a fighter, though?

We don’t know. His heart hasn’t been tested yet.

In Conclusion

Jake Paul may not be the best boxer in the world yet but he has a name and a face that people want to punch. And if they can’t punch him, then they want to see someone else do it.

Unfortunately for those folks, Jake has been the one doing the punching going 3-0 as a professional boxer with three TKO’s. He has been more or less flawless but his level of competition, of course, is lower than low.

He fought two Youtube guys, one of the shortest NBA ballers of the last quarter-century and possibly the worst striker mixed martial arts has ever seen since the late 90s.

The name of the game, though, is money. Just ask Floyd. Is he sitting here with CTE? I don’t think so. He just never learned to read.

Jake is a cash machine right now and his popularity is skyrocketing even if more than half of it is hate. He does have some skills and I would like to see him fight some legit guys but if he goes out there and gets smashed, people will know the gig is up.

Then what, live off of your 20 million net worth forever. I could but I have the feeling we will see Jake Paul inside of the boxing ring for a long time to come.