Jake Paul hits back at Conor McGregor with brutal comments during Mike Perry press conference

Jake Paul has brutally fired back at Conor McGregor.

Jake Paul hits back at Conor McGregor with brutal comments during Mike Perry press conference

Jake Paul brutally hit back at Conor McGregor following his ‘dweeb’ dig during a press conference with Mike Perry.

Paul hasn’t fought since his win over Ryan Bourland last March, but he will return to the ring on Saturday when he faces former UFC fighter Perry.

Paul’s eagerly anticipated heavyweight clash with Mike Tyson was postponed after the 58-year-old fell ill on a flight from Miami to Los Angeles.

In the meantime, the 27-year-old will take on Perry, who has made a name for himself in Bare Knuckle FC, having beaten the likes of Michael ‘Venom’ Page as well as former UFC champions Luke Rockhold and Eddie Alvarez.

Ahead of the fight, Perry received the backing of Conor McGregor, who called Paul a “dweeb” during a BKFC press conference in Marbella, Spain.

Bad blood has developed between Paul and McGregor in recent months, with the UFC star heavily critical of the YouTuber-turned-boxer’s fight with Tyson.

A fight between McGregor and Paul has been mooted for some time now.

On Thursday, during Paul and Perry’s pre-fight press conference, Paul slammed McGregor and MMA fighters in general.

In response to McGregors’ comments in support of Perry, Paul said: “First of all, he’s big upping the BKFC but you’re going to see what I do to their best fighter on Saturday night. I’m going to embarrass their whole entire league.

“This guy has no skill, these are just brawler, idiot, street fighter dudes who have no idea what the sweet science is. Conor McGregor can say what he wants but he won’t fight me either.

Jake Paul gestures to the crowd during a presser. Image: Getty
Jake Paul gestures to the crowd during a presser. Image: Getty

“Once I knock out Mike Perry, McGregor let’s do it, but you won’t run it because you know what’s going to happen, you saw what I did to Nate Diaz who I went toe-to-toe with.

“So Conor McGregor: lay off the cocaine, get in the gym, start winning fights and then maybe we can have a conversation.”

Another flashpoint in the press conference came when Paul lost his cool with Perry: “Shut the f*** up! Your words as MMA fighters are f****** meaningless,” the 27-year-old shouted.

“You guys are all p******. Every single MMA fighter is a f****** p**** and you can’t box for s***.

“And when I try to fight y’all in MMA y’all don’t do it. You and McGregor [are] both b*****.”

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Jake Paul fires back at Conor McGregor over controversial Mike Tyson fight comments

Jake Paul fires back at Conor McGregor over controversial Mike Tyson fight comments

McGregor thinks the interest in a fight between Mike Tyson and Jake Paul is “low”.

Jake Paul has hit back at Conor McGregor after the former UFC champion claimed interest in a fight between Mike Tyson and the YouTube personality is “low”.

Tyson and Paul will feature in an event that will be streamed exclusively on Netflix on Saturday, July 20, 2024, with the bout taking inside the 80,000-seat capacity AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.

The reaction to the announcement has been huge, to say the least, and speaking at the world premiere of Road House, Conor McGregor gave his thoughts on the match-up.

“Oh jeez,” McGregor said when asked about Tyson vs Paul. “It’s a bit strange, you know. The interest is low. I don’t know. I don’t understand it. I wish well for Mike [Tyson].”

Paul, as you can imagine, is far from pleased with McGregor’s take.

Speaking on his BS podcast, the 27-year-old said: “So Conor, you’re saying the interest is low for the fight but the last fight you announced there was a thousand articles written in a multi-day span, people talking about your last fight.

“In that same multiple-day span there was ten thousand articles written about this. No fight ever has done these numbers in terms of face-off views and Instagram reels.

“Just on our main pages alone, it’s like 50 or 60 million Instagram views on both of our posts. Not to mention every single other sports page posting it.”

Paul added: “This is in my mind the biggest fight the world will ever see. There’s no reason for them to be jealous, I get people are jealous but when the old heads like Conor are trying to hate it’s like, why are you trying to pull people down?”

Asked whether it will be bigger than McGregor’s fight with Floyd Mayweather – an event that generated 4.3 million buys in North America – Paul says it will viewed more than the second biggest PPV of all time.

“It’ll be more viewed, a thousand percent,” Paul said. “Obviously it’s free so we can’t compare pay-per-view numbers. The fight just had to make sense for the streaming platforms, there has to be a high allure.”