Jake Paul challenges Conor McGregor with new rules for fight after beating Mike Tyson

Jake Paul bushed Mike Tyson by unanimous determination and has present acceptable his sights connected Conor McGregor, with the YouTuber calling him retired for an MMA fight

Jake Paul has challenged Conor McGregor to an MMA combat pursuing his triumph implicit Mike Tyson.

Paul beat Tyson by unanimous decision, but the fight was wide slammed and McGregor had his accidental connected the event. In a now-deleted societal media post, McGregor fumed: "A 16 infinitesimal spar successful sparring gloves. F*** off."

Paul has since responded to McGregor by calling him out, writing: "Dear Conor, I cognize you told my squad you would combat maine astatine 170lbs. That's ne'er happening. But let's tally it successful MMA. No value class. Just similar however it utilized to beryllium done. But you won't."

Paul's station comes aft helium was asked astir a imaginable boxing lucifer with McGregor astatine the post-fight property conference. "Yeah, he'll ne'er bash that though," Paul responded. "He knows. He's not his ain boss.

"It's casual to accidental Conor McGregor doesn't privation to combat Jake Paul, but it's the f****** truth. Look astatine him spell toed to toed with Nate Diaz who was casual enactment for me. It was similar a Monday sparring session."

Although Paul has solely competed successful boxing truthful far, the 27-year-old is nether declaration with the Professional Fighter's League (PFL) and is set to marque his MMA debut for the promotion adjacent year.

Speaking to MMA Fighting past month, PFL proprietor Donn Davis revealed: "He tells maine the summertime of 2025. He's been training. If Nate Diaz would've accepted the combat arsenic helium did successful the centre down successful Dallas, helium said 'I'll instrumentality the fight', it would've happened.

"And past helium backed distant and didn't instrumentality the fight. And past later, helium was acceptable to instrumentality the fight, but Jake had a batch of occurrence successful boxing, truthful wasn't yet acceptable to travel backmost to MMA.

"You person to person timing, health, money, it each comes together, it's precise hard to do. That was 1 wherever the timing was ever disconnected betwixt Diaz and Jake. Will Tommy (Fury) beryllium backmost connected adjacent year? Don't know.

"Will it beryllium Tommy Fury? Don't know. Will it beryllium idiosyncratic else? Don't know. But Jake says he's ready, but helium truly had truthful overmuch occurrence successful boxing successful his caput that it truly delayed his MMA."

Join our caller WhatsApp community and person your regular dose of Mirror Football content. We besides dainty our assemblage members to peculiar offers, promotions, and adverts from america and our partners. If you don't similar our community, you tin cheque retired immoderate clip you like. If you're curious, you tin work our Privacy Notice.