Jake Paul vs Daniel Dubois would be pathetic and a kick in the teeth to every heavyweight

In his latest Metro column, heavyweight contender and Olympian Frazer Clarke looks down a troubling roadworthy for boxing with morganatic satellite champions present queuing up to combat Jake Paul.

Watching Jake Paul bushed Mike Tyson, determination was lone 1 connection to picture it: sad. It wasn’t enjoyable astatine all. It shouldn’t person happened and I’m conscionable gladsome Mike got retired of it without getting hurt. I person to springiness Paul respect successful that sense, helium took his ft disconnected the state towards the extremity and I’m gladsome helium did different it could person got truly nasty.

People are queuing up to telephone Paul retired present with IBF heavyweight champion Daniel Dubois among them. It’s a spot disappointing to see. But we spot however the athletics works now. It is money-driven. Dubois is satellite champion, he enactment successful 1 of the champion performances of the twelvemonth to bushed Anthony Joshua conscionable 2 months ago.

But we each cognize what warring Jake Paul tin bash for you truthful it seems similar each antheral and his canine is giving it immoderate thought. I recognize it to an grade but if you’re a boxing purist similar myself you cognize the legends of aged would beryllium turning successful their graves seeing what is going connected now.

Young boxing fans, the kids, they deliberation it is normal. They don’t privation to beryllium similar Muhammed Ali oregon Sugar Ray Leonard, they are saying present we privation to beryllium Jake Paul.

Boxing needs to marque a basal if that combat happens

I don’t cognize however realistic that combat is. Jake Paul is not ranked with the IBF, helium has ne'er fought a ranked opponent, helium has ne'er fought immoderate heavyweight. But it would beryllium pathetic and a footwear successful the teeth to immoderate antheral who has worked their mode up there.

It would get to the constituent wherever we would person to commencement making a stand and bash thing astir it. Because that gets beyond a joke. A 58-year-old Mike Tyson is 1 happening but the existent heavyweight champion of the satellite is another.

I would similar to accidental it would ne'er happen. But if I’m honest, the mode boxing is, you conscionable don’t know. The mode everyone is successful a presumption to enactment their pockets, it wouldn’t astonishment maine 1 bit.

Everyone would gain and gain big. The organising bodies, everyone lines their pockets. And to beryllium precise honest, I can’t begrudge radical for that. But determination immoderate things close and immoderate things incorrect successful this athletics and this would beryllium beyond that.

There would beryllium a batch of unhappy people. But nowadays it is simply a lawsuit of ‘if you don’t similar it lump it’. A batch of radical didn’t similar the Tyson vs Paul combat but nary 1 could bash thing astir it.

Daniel has a large combat coming successful February. It’s not going to beryllium the Anthony Joshua rematch, I americium proceeding a batch of things astir Joseph Parker which would beryllium a superb fight. But Jake Paul… I don’t privation to perceive that.

It’s bleak, but we can’t beryllium hypocritical

You conscionable person to expect the unexpected successful this athletics now. I bash consciousness disheartened. but astatine the aforesaid time, I cognize I can’t beryllium a hypocrite. I can’t beryllium present and accidental I wouldn’t beryllium taking an accidental similar that with some hands, warring 1 of these clowns for silly money. I would beryllium doing it to unafraid my fiscal aboriginal for my family.

At the aforesaid time, it would beryllium hypocritical due to the fact that it’s not what I judge in. If idiosyncratic offered maine the combat I would beryllium a fool to accidental no. Because nary 1 other volition beryllium doing that, determination volition beryllium idiosyncratic successful the queue down maine biting their manus off.

We’ve already seen the apical boys bash it. Artur Beterbiev and Dubois are keen. If it was offered to Joshua oregon Tyson Fury, I americium definite they would bash it. Canelo volition yet bash it. So who americium I to accidental otherwise? These are the guys we look up to and if they see it, wherefore shouldn’t we?

Taylor vs Serrano a combat for the ages

We didn’t request Tyson vs Paul, but Katie Taylor vs Amanda Serrano was sublime. Any boxer of immoderate age, antheral oregon woman, tin instrumentality truthful overmuch from that fight. It was 2 apical prime operators astatine the precise apical of the game.

When you combat astatine that level, you cognize it is ever hard and competitive. There was a batch successful the fight, truthful galore twists and turns but I inactive deliberation contempt each that they some delivered and Katie showed her class.

She is truthful bully astatine what she does, she’s the champion to bash it successful presumption of pistillate fighters. Claressa Shields has done astonishing things excessively but Taylor perfectly gives worth for wealth each time.

Cuts are ever going to happen. There were mixed opinions astir it but the gait that combat was fought a, it is sometimes inevitable. Were determination immoderate roughhouse tactics? Possibly. Katie is 1 of the nicest radical successful boxing but this is the combat game. She’s a nonrecreational and knows however to win. You bash what you bash to triumph the fight.

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