“I have no issue with Jake Paul and what he’s trying to do and stuff like that, and I think if people, you know, don’t think he should be ranked or whatever, that’s not his fault. That’s on boxing. He’s filling a void, basically. He’s filling up a gap in the market which someone else isn’t and whether that’s me, whether that’s other boxers, whatever, he’s filling a gap. We live in an attention environment, that’s what the world is about right now. And he’s very very good at what he does at his job – of marketing and branding and all that. So, yeah, no fighter is going to turn down a fight with that and that money because why would you? It doesn’t make sense. That’s why, if anyone’s got an issue with Anthony Joshua, I understand the sort of integrity part of it but you’re in boxing and the amount of grief people give boxers anyway, why shouldn’t he take the most money for what should be the easiest fight of his career. I don’t understand how you can’t have an issue with Anthony Joshua for that. You can’t have an issue with Jake Paul for creating that sort of money.
“People always ask me ‘Are you annoyed that you’re not getting the same sort of level of money or audiences?’ No, because that’s my own fault. I haven’t worked as hard as he has on social media on YouTube and all those things in the social world. So why should I be annoyed at him? I should be annoyed at myself. If I’m annoyed at the situation, I have to be annoyed at myself for not doing that. I think that’s what a lot of people tend to do. I think they almost get annoyed at him, but really they’re annoyed at themselves. It’s more of an internal thing, but I think it is wild and I think that that Jake Paul fight could easily happen with me. Do I think he’d want it? Do I think I currently bring enough eyes to him? Probably not right now, but who knows. Never say never.”
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