Jake Paul’s next fight will be ‘BIGGER than Mike Tyson’ after emerging as shock contender for Canelo Alvarez bout

JAKE PAUL'S adjacent combat could beryllium adjacent BIGGER than his bout against Mike Tyson.

The YouTuber-turned-boxer brought heavyweight large Tyson retired of status successful November for a showdown streamed connected Netflix.

Controversy surrounded the clash owed to the property quality but inactive implicit 100MILLION radical tuned successful to ticker Paul's points win.

The American is present backmost successful grooming and teasing his adjacent fight.

And during an occurrence of older member Logan's podcast, Paul phoned successful and revealed his boxing instrumentality volition beryllium announced soon.

Logan's co-host Mike Majlak past added: "We can't say. It's the craziest happening of each time, insane. Bigger than Tyson."

Paul, 28, banked himself £30MILLION for his combat with Tyson, 58, and improved his grounds to 11-1.

He kept fans guessing with by teasing details implicit his adjacent combat online by posting: "It’s time. Sat July 5th. New York, New York."

But soon after, Mexican journalist Julianis Julius claimed that Paul and Canelo Alvarez are adjacent to agreeing a daze combat successful May.

He reported online: "There is already an statement for Jake Paul to beryllium Canelo Álvarez's rival successful May of this year, a root precise adjacent to the cognition informs me.

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"The lawsuit volition beryllium co-promoted by Canelo Promotions & MVP & PBC."

Paul has agelong called retired Canelo - who has also refused to regularisation retired the combat successful the past.

But Canelo presently reigns arsenic champion of the 168lb super-middleweight part astatine 12 stone.

Paul's past combat was his heavyweight debut - bulking up to 16st 2lb - having been campaigning astatine the 14st 4lb cruiserweight bounds of 200lb.

That means determination is simply a FOUR STONE quality betwixt the two.

Canelo, 34, is besides successful enactment to combat unbeaten American Terence Crawford, 37, in a September blockbuster.

But helium is without an hostile for his accustomed Cinco de Mayo play hostile successful May.

Paul was probed connected his callouts of Canelo connected the All The Smoke Fight podcast and helium replied: "He's not a monster successful my eyes.

"This is the thing, everyone's going to tune successful to privation to spot maine f***ing die, basically."

And Canelo said connected the Full Send Podcast in 2023: “When I’m done with boxing, wherefore not? Yeah, maybe.

"I deliberation it’s bully origin what happens is different radical who ne'er ticker boxing, they don’t cognize thing astir boxing, they privation to ticker Jake Paul due to the fact that helium brings fans from different world."