Jai Opetaia warns Jake Paul: “I'll beat him up”

Paul has repeatedly emphasized that his extremity is to go satellite champion, and that privation whitethorn soon travel true.

Jake Paul is returning to the ringing aboriginal this month. The YouTuber-turned-boxer volition look erstwhile WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. astatine the Honda Center successful Anaheim, California, connected June 28.

It's the latest measurement successful Paul's boxing career, having past fought successful November, erstwhile helium defeated boxing fable Mike Tyson successful a arguable bout, considering "Iron Mike" was 58 astatine the clip and hadn't fought professionally successful astir 2 decades.

Chavez Jr. is expected to supply a bigger challenge, though the Mexican boxer has ne'er rather recovered from the level helium was astatine erstwhile helium held the satellite rubric from 2011-12. However, helium does participate this bout connected the backmost of 2 consecutive wins.

Paul has repeatedly stated that his extremity is to go a satellite champion, and that imagination whitethorn soon travel true, arsenic an undefeated satellite champion has offered him the opportunity.

Jai Opetaia: If Jake Paul wants a combat with me, fto him come

Jai Opetaia, the existent IBF cruiserweight champion, defends his loop this play successful Australia against Claudio Sque.

Opetaia is acceptable to combat Paul and told Fox Sports Australia that helium would "beat him up" if they met successful the ring:

- If Jake Paul wants a combat with me, fto him come. I volition wholly bushed him connected my mode to the implicit title. But we cognize he's smarter than that.

- These guys don't privation to combat to beryllium the champion fighters successful the world, but due to the fact that they privation to beryllium the astir famous. And those are 2 wholly antithetic things.

It is besides speculated that Paul could participate the ringing with different existent satellite champion – WBA lightweight champion Gervont Davis, successful a catchweight lucifer aboriginal this year.