JAKE PAUL is eyeing a boxing return by September or ‘maybe later’ as he admitted to being ‘very busy on the business side of things’.
The YouTube star-turned prizefighter had a busy 2021 in the ring with three fights in ten months, earning him £30million.
Paul, now focussing on promoting the women’s super-fight between Amanda Serrano, 33, and Katie Taylor, 35, warned it could be some time until he laces up the gloves again.
He said on The MMA Hour: “There’s a lot going on in other aspects of my life.
“I’m going to do these press conferences over the next two weeks here to help with the promotion around Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano and I’m very busy on the business side of things with my venture capital fund.
“So I haven’t even gotten back into the gym or been training at all.
“I need to have a discussion with my coaches but probably I would say August-September maybe. Maybe later. I’m trying to figure it out.
“Obviously if the stars align in some sort of way or I have a change of heart, then things can obviously move around but right now I don’t feel like that motivated to just go right back into another training camp.”
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Paul, 25, most recently knocked out Tyron Woodley, 39, in their short-notice rematch, after Tommy Fury, 22, pulled out with a broken rib.
Woodley took the fight only four months after losing on points, meaning Paul has KO’d every opponent he has shared the ring with.
It followed from prior KO’s over YouTuber ‘AnEsonGib’, ex-NBA player Nate Robinson, 37, and retired UFC welterweight Ben Askren, 37.
But Fury’s withdrawal also means Paul is still yet to face an opponent with prior professional boxing experience.
Despite the criticism of opposition, he named only ex-world champ Julio Cesar Chavez Jr, 35, as a boxing rival who makes financial sense to fight.
Paul said: “There’s really no boxers who have a big enough name to make it an interesting enough event that are really near my weight class or experience level.
“It would basically be like fighting for the world title would be the only fight that would sell and I don’t even know who the cruiserweight champion is.
“I think Canelo was supposed to fight him but it just doesn’t make any sense. It’s my sixth fight and this guy’s a world champion.
“So nobody really has a big enough name in the boxing world than maybe Chavez Jr.”
