![]() ![]() But everyone else tends to lump them together, conflating both their occasional triumphs and their frequent debacles, such as the time, in 2017, when Logan Paul visited a Japanese forest, reputed to be a place people went to commit suicide, and filmed his encounter with a corpse, sparking outrage that threatened to end his YouTube career. Connoisseurs can easily tell the brothers apart-Logan is taller, shaggier, and perhaps more in tune with the absurdity of the lives they have built for themselves. ![]() Instead, since he was fifteen, he had been working alongside his big brother, Logan Paul, to earn the enmity of a significant chunk of the global population, as a prankster and instigator on Vine, the short-lived video-sharing network, and on YouTube, its long-lived rival. He is a lifelong athlete, although until quite recently he seemed unlikely to become a professional one. Paul is twenty-four and blond, with a confident smirk that is softened, slightly, by feathery eyelashes. “It was actually a sophisticated crowd,” he said, by which he appeared to mean that it was a crowd sophisticated enough to tolerate his presence. But, Paul observed, the fans were not quite as unremittingly hostile. event, held in July in Las Vegas, the television producers did not put Paul on camera. champion turned commentator, also took note of Paul’s arrival, and explained his reaction to viewers at home: “I pointed at him and I said, ‘Don’t play with me,’ because I’ll smack him in the face.”) At a subsequent U.F.C. As he made his way to his seat, the attendees did, indeed, chant, “Fuck Jake Paul!” (Daniel Cormier, an M.M.A. In April, Paul had travelled to Jacksonville, Florida, for a night of fights sponsored by the U.F.C., the preëminent organization in mixed martial arts. As evidence, he adduced some recent data collected from American sports arenas. “I think the narrative is changing from ‘Fuck Jake Paul’ to ‘We love Jake Paul,’ ” he said. One hot afternoon in Sun Valley, California, he had some encouraging news to report. This was a step too far and I’m going to prove that on December 18.Like many executives, Jake Paul pays close attention to the fluctuating prospects of the business he runs, which in his case is the business of being Jake Paul. "It’s in my blood and I’m going to go out there and shut this guy up for everybody in the world that’s asking for it. "There’s been pressure on me from the start and just because there are a few more people there and a few more lights, I won’t crack. It doesn’t matter how much pressure is on me. I’m coming over to Tampa Bay to do a demolition job and please the whole wide world. "I’m not taking in the crowd or any of that. "There’s only one man I care about that night. I don’t care about that," Fury continued. “Everybody keeps talking about the pressure. His generous gesture helped trigger negotiations after the pair's victories in August which will now take place over eight rounds at a catchweight of 192lbs.įury has faced pressure from his family in the build-up to the fight with his brother Tyson and father John threatening to disown him if he is defeated by Paul.īut the 22-year-old is unfazed by the pressure and is confident of completing his "demolition" job in his second venture across the pond. Who will win in December Tommy Fury or Jake Paul? Let us know your prediction in the comments section below. The fight negotiations rumbled on after Paul added Fury to the undercard of his clash with Woodley with the Briton scoring a decision victory over Anthony Taylor.Īnd the Cleveland fight card generated in excess of 500,000 pay-per-view buys while Paul also insisted on topping up Fury's purse in a bid to secure the showdown with Fury later this year. You’re the one who is going to crumble."įury himself will face his most notable challenge having fought limited opposition during his seven-fight undefeated career.īut the meeting is set to generate huge interest with the pair having a combined social media following of over 30 million. "You should have gone and fought Tiger Woods, not somebody who has done it his whole life because you’re in for a big shock. When you get in there with a fresh 22-year-old whose been doing this all his life, you’re going to wish you stuck to paying UFC fighters off and basketball players. That means you only just won against a 40-year-old retired UFC fighter. I took this away from his fight with Tyron Woodley. "'I’m begging you, please don’t retire on the stool. ![]()
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