JAKE PAUL would ‘run a mile’ from Mairis Breidis – despite the boxing great calling him out with a tattoo!
That’s the verdict of Breidis’ promoter Kalle Sauerland, who insists he could make a bout between the world cruiserweight champ and unbeaten YouTuber Paul.
Sauerland reckons Paul would be scared off once he saw highlights of the Latvian’s chilling knockouts.
But in an effort to land a huge pay-day with the social media star, Breidis has had ‘JAKE’S BAD KARMA’ inked onto his leg.
Sauerland was shocked by the tattoo and told talkSPORT Boxing. “He sent it to me, the day before it went out, and I didn’t know what to say!
“I mean, he is a very jokey character and you mustn’t misunderstand him – he’s preparing now for his mandatory defence now, which he has to do.
“It will be [Jay] Opetaia, again a very tough contender, he has earned the right to fight him. He is a three-time world champion.
“So people out there saying he is after Jake Paul…yeah right!
“He is a three-time world champion who won the World Boxing Super Series to unify the belts. You can forget that part, of course he looks at it as a commercial opportunity!”
Sauerland has openly scoffed to Breidis about Paul taking on the IBF and Ring Magazine’s 200lb king.
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He added: “I said to him, ‘Mairis, this guy is not going to fight you! He wants novice fighters, retired superstars – preferably retired for a decade – he is not looking for a top drawer cruiserweight’.
“It doesn’t help that when you go into YouTube and you type in ‘Mairis Breidis showreel knockouts’ and I’m sure if you show that to Jake Paul, he will look at that and run a mile.
“But the fact that he has got a tattoo done of it, whether it is real or not, I saw it went quite viral and I understandably so.
“He’s a character, Mairis, and I’m sure he will keep surprising us with more of those moments.”
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