JAKE PAUL has once again set his sights on a showdown with Conor McGregor – but he wants to face the Irishman behind enemy lines.
The YouTuber-turned-boxer has been targeting a blockbuster bout with the UFC‘s poster boy for over a year.
And Problem Child Paul is willing to travel to enemy territory to throw hands with the MMA mogul.
The 25-year-old said: “I want to fight [Conor] McGregor, I will fight him in a boxing ring in Ireland.
“This is partially how the journey [in boxing] started.
“I made up my mind that I was going to get a fight with McGregor and win it and that is what motivated me to jump into this boxing career.”
Paul began trolling McGregor in late 2020 and continued his social media slights on The Notorious before and after seeing him suffer back-to-back defeats by Dustin Poirier.
And he recently referenced the former two-division champion in his Dana White ‘Diss Track’, rapping: “McGregor I ain’t seen you win in five years, you rich little weirdo, ugly ass veneers.
“Took so many losses wound up at VMAs trying to fight with MGK, no surprise here.
“Lamborghini boat but your career is sinking, makes me wondering what Dee is thinking.
“I ain’t even dissing now, I’m really speaking, wound up in jail too many times with all the liquor drinking.”
Paul could very well get his wish to share the ring with McGregor as the Dubliner – who last summer refused to rule out facing the former Disney star – has two fights left on his UFC contract.
The BJ Flores-trained Paul is confident he’d win the fight convincingly, telling Bleacher Report: “I will fight everybody. This started with me calling out McGregor.
“And people were like, ‘This kids crazy, Conor will kill him.’ But now this fight could happen within the next 24 months one hundred per cent.
“I will beat him, people are seeing how serious I am being about this and are changing the way they think about it.”
Paul is currently taking a break from boxing following his sensational sixth-round KO victory over Tyron Woodley last December.
McGregor, meanwhile, is still recovering from the horrific broken leg he suffered in his UFc 264 defeat by Poirier last July.
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