Thursday’s Jake Paul vs. Tyron Woodley press conference (watch it here) had a little bit of everything: a Transformers-like robot, personal trash talk and even a friendly wager.
Showtime organized a kick-off press conference for Paul vs. Woodley ahead of the headlining bout at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse in Cleveland, Ohio, on Sun., Aug. 29, 2021, at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT, streaming online via Showtime pay-per-view (PPV).
“I think your career is over,” Paul told Woodley at the press conference in Los Angeles. “I’m going to bounce your brain off your skull — instant concussion. You will be on the mat. You’re just not the same Tyrone anymore.”
“I never was ‘Tyrone’,” Tyron Woodley retorted.
The bad blood did not end there.
“Jake, meet me in sparring tonight — let’s get a warm-up in,” the former UFC Welterweight champion invited. “I guarantee you when you get out of that gym, you will never walk into a ring with me, ever.”
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READY FOR WAR! International superstar and serial risk-taker, Jake “The Problem Child” Paul, is once again up against a very big (and very different) challenge in regard to his budding combat sports career when he takes on former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) superstar (and Conor McGregor slayer), Nate Diaz, inside American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas, on Sat., Aug. 5, 2023, streaming live on DAZN pay-per-view (PPV). “Paul vs. Diaz” which will also feature multiple-time women’s boxing champion, Amanda Serrano, battling former WBO queenpin, Heather Hardy, for the undisputed Featherweight title in DAZN’s PPV co-main event. Special start time is slated for 8 p.m. ET, with a PPV price tag of $59.99.
“I didn’t get into this for a quick payday to get in and get out,” Woodley said elsewhere during the presser, explaining that he plans on making further forays into professional boxing. “This is a stepping stone for me. This is my entry into boxing for sure.”
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