May 31, 2025 • 13 mins
Wade EXPOSES the truth behind the Jake Paul Vs Gervonta Davis fight and how it could potentially END Gervonta's boxing career for good...
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Something else that's unfortunate is the idea that Jake Paul
might actually fight Gervonte Tank Davis.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
This can't be real.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
When it came up a couple of months ago, I
was like, you know what, I'm not even gonna cover
this because there's no way it's really There's no way
they're really gonna do that, because it makes no sense.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Why would you do that for him?
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Outside of it, like, okay, you can look at it
like an exhibition, which it will be, and we'll take
a look at some of the rule set for it.
But Jervonte Davis is one of, if not the best,
biggest names at one hundred and thirty five pounds and
is an active, in his prime fighter. Don't I don't
want to hear this similar to Floyd and Logan thing,
because at that point Floyd was retired.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Floyd had done all he needed to do in the sport.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Tank is still in his prime, still has multiple high
level opponents that he needs to fight, and you can say, oh,
you know, the Jake would be a one off side quest,
that's fine, But that just tells me that Tank doesn't
care about being a high level champion in the sport.
Anymore tells me that he's done competitively in the sport.
If he takes a fight with Jake Paul, it tells
me he's done, and that's unfortunate. Yeah, Tank has been
(01:06):
talking about retirement. If he goes this route, it's almost certain,
like it's it's pack it up, it's over with because
the fight makes no sense. It doesn't even make sense
for Jake. For all the things Jake's talking about doing,
it makes no sense for him. Again, money, sure, if
it makes dollars, make sense, Okay, fine, But I want
to see Jake in competitive matchups where I am interested
(01:27):
in the outcome.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
I'm not interested in this. I'm not interested in the
outcome of this.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
I was interested in Floyd versus Logan because there was
an idea that Floyd was a little slower, a little older,
and Logan would be able to knock him out. If
Jake knocks Tank out, so what what does that do
for him? Because he said he could beat Canelo, he
said he could beat Anthony Joshua. I just this one
to me, Like, I've gotten on board with a lot
of Jake fights because they've made sense right to me,
(01:50):
they've made sense even Juliosayser Chavez after he's already beaten
the guy that beat Julio Sayser Chavez Junior beat Anderson
Silva a couple of years back. Now that's this one
still kind of makes sense because you're getting a maybe
a better version of Jabez and you know he's around
the same weight. Now, when you talk about the Tank fight,
I just I don't understand it. I don't understand it.
But let's take a look at what he said to
(02:11):
Arieljwane and see how he explains this fight was the
next one Tank.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Mean that was on the one yard line as well.
But he has to rematch, you know, Lamont Roach. He
wants to get that back and then we'll be back
in discussions with mister Gervante. But uh man, this is
the nature of Boxton. You have massive fights on the
one yard line and things just fall through.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Again.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
I just don't know why, why why would this be
where you go like Mike Tyson thing I could kind
of understand because it's Mike and it's an exhibition and
he's retired.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Tank still being.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
In the competitive nature of the sport rows this one
completely off for me and the fact that Jake is
like sixty pounds bigger than he is, right, Like, Mike
was obviously far older than Jake, and that was the
big knock on that fight.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Mike should not have been in there with Jake. So
that many times.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Jake has fought so hard against people saying he's bad
for the sport. He's bad for the sport. He doesn't
actually want to fight or step up or do any
of this stuff. And I've kind of had his back
when I'm like, no, he is doing what most boxers
have done early in their career. But this gives those
people more ammo to be like, yeah, bro, look, this
is what we're talking about when we say he's bad
(03:21):
for the sport, or when we say that he's doing
stuff that doesn't make sense and he's making a mockery
of things.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
This is what they're talking about.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
And again I wouldn't have any problem with itf Tank
was way past the point where he could fight competitively
at his weight class and have fights with guys like
Shaquor Stevens or even again rematching guys like Ryan Garcia,
those type of fights that people want to see that
make more sense. This one doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
I don't know though, because I never really thought Tank
was that good. It would just take the right fighter
to pick him apart, to be honest, someone who had
high activity and wasn't afraid of his power.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
So I always saw so many.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Whole in his game, So to me, it wasn't that
surprising that someone finally gave him some good work.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
If you do fight, what weight would it be at?
Speaker 3 (04:08):
One hundred ninety five?
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Oh wow?
Speaker 5 (04:10):
So he would go all the way from forty to
ninety five?
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Yeah, I mean it would be an exhibition.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Okay, okay, yeah, I was gonna say it does any
No one actually believes that Tank Davis is putting on
fifty pounds to come up.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
And fight Jake, But yeah, what the fuck are we doing?
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Tank will at most weigh one hundred and fifty five
maybe one sixty. They're not gonna sanction it because no one, no,
no matter how many corrupt commissions there are in the
United States, no one is gonna look at that fight
and be like, yeah, pro about No, it would be
an exhibition. She doesn't make any sense. And then here's
another part of this. If Jake, like maybe the PBA.
(04:47):
If Jake was earlier on in his career. I wouldn't
be as harsh with this matchup as I'm being. Part
of the reason Logan and Floyd Mayweather worked was because
Logan was a relative novice, right he had had a
couple of fights. Jake is like into his double digit
fight pro career. Now he's getting more experience. Whether you
think he's good or not, he's getting better, and so
(05:10):
the disadvantages that he would inherently have as a boxer
that he could make up for with size and weight
and things like that. I'm not saying he is the
same level as Jervonte Davis, but I'm saying they're becoming
less and less to the point where you look at
this fight and you're like, what is the point? Because
Jake is getting better. He is, he knows how to
protect himself, he can box, and he's bigger by a
wide margin. So it is almost a stacked deck against
(05:33):
Jervonte Davis. If Jake knocks out Jervonte Davis, like, I
don't even know if I would be impressed, I'd go, uh, okay,
all right, it's gonna look awful that you like knocked
out the guy that looks like someone's little brother compared
to you. And yes, we know it's Jervonte, but I
just Tank can have way more skill. But snags until
you've put gloves on and actually stepped in with people
(05:54):
like at a massively different way. Unless like Tank just
lands a bomb on his chin, which could happen, It's
gonna be very hard for him to hurt Jake badly.
It's gonna be very hard to do. Will they let
Jake fight Tank with ten ounces?
Speaker 2 (06:06):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
I don't know what the rules like glove stuff, I
don't know. So this is just again it's like when
you start to look deeper into it, the less impressive
it becomes. If Jake actually goes in and beats him
or like whatever. This is gonna give all the people
that Jake tried to like change their minds with how.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
He approached the sport.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
This is gonna do all like, it's gonna do away
with all that good will and people are gonna go no,
we were right in the beginning.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
You're bad for the sport.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
But and so what does that mean? Is that is
that three minute rounds?
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Ten three minute rounds.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
And when you say exhibition, like are what are the
restrictions on that.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
No restrictions, just the fact that, like we couldn't actually
get it professionally sanctioned.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
Okay, is that still of interest to you? Like if
he wins the rematch and you beat Julio, is that
of great interest to you?
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Later this year for sure? For sure?
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Like I said, big events, And you know when we
had announcement videos filmed for Canelo and for Jervonte, like
both filmed and fully edited, and my team went into
the streets to ask people what they thought of me
versus Davonte. Every single person was like, Davante would kill Jake.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
He's gonna die, all of this stuff.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
And so just proving people wrong and changing the narrative
and showing people that I'm a better boxer than all
these so called pound for pounds, it's just fun for me.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Jake has lost it a little bit here because that's
not what beating Jervonte Davis does.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
That doesn't make Jake a better boxer.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
And again, I don't even know how this would even look,
but that's not He knows that that's not what it does.
He says, changing the narrative, But that's not a narrative.
Anyone's saying unless they don't watch the sport, that doesn't
change the narrative.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
That just creates one.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
And as much as you know, there's been a narrative
about Jake, which is, you know, ah, he only fights
old men, or he doesn't fight fighters his age, or
he doesn't fight in his way. There's been those narratives.
But Jake, make no mistake about it. I think that
those have been unfair at times. People are talking about,
you know, how young he is as a boxer versus
what he should be doing. But Jake has also created
a lot of narratives for himself, like the way he
(08:12):
talked about the Tyron Woodleigh fight, the way he talked
about Anderson Silva, the way he talked about Nate Diaz.
And again he's right and what he was saying, I
beat the best striker ever. Okay, he's right, but there's
context missing. I beat the best baddest man on the planet. Right,
but there's context missing. You know, I beat a former
UFC World well Thray champion. Yeah, but there's context missing.
I told you guys four years ago that Jake was
(08:32):
the king of creating and spinning narratives when it came
to the verbiage he used around the fight. You said
he's not chasing boxing glory, and I have to push
back because you're right that he'll chase massive fights, and
this would be a massive fight numbers wise, and of
course we're gonna watch it. But he has stated he
wants to chase boxing. He has stated he wants to
become a world champion. He has stated those things. So
(08:53):
you get to a point where, yes, you can take sidetracks.
And this is why I'm not I'm not criticizing the
Canelo on his much right, because Canelo is at least
closer to his weight and closer to the end of
his career in my opinion, maybe not. But the Dravante
won is such a wide gap, and it's just it's
it's such a polarizing, middle of the road thing for Javonte.
(09:14):
It's more so Dravante accepting this because of course Jake's
gonna call out the biggest names in the sport. And
then if he wins, like I said, we talked about
this with the Juliosser Chavez Junior fight, I fully expect
Jake to win that fight and he potentially is gonna
knock Juliosaser Chavez Junior out and when he does, he'll
get on the microphone and he will say I did
what Canel could or Canelo could not do, and it
(09:35):
will be devoid of context, but he will have actually
done that. He will have knocked out a guy that
Canelo could knock out. And so if he does this
to Dravonte Davis, he will get on the mic and say,
I be one of the best boxers, so I'm one
of the best boxers. At the same time, he'll be
flat out incorrect in the context of it. In the
same breath is I'll criticize him for this one because
I just don't It doesn't compute to me, and I
(09:56):
think it is a bad thing for the sport to
just do exhibitions in the middle of fighters primes. I
don't think it's a good idea, especially if if Tank
were to not look very good, because then what like,
are you interested in his next fight? If Jake makes
him look relatively mediocre. You know, if if nothing really
happens and both guys come out of there with the
old exhibition draw because there's no decisions we care about
(10:16):
him versus chakor then you know, I don't know, does
the does the we may but does the buying audience care?
Speaker 2 (10:22):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Then Jake will go in and challenge Gordo Ramirez and
it's like what the fuck? Okay, I guess like that's
way too big a step up to me, but who knows.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
So then ultimately, how did you end up with Julio
And were there other names that were being considered before
you did end up with him?
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (10:38):
I mean I think Julio, that conversation has always been
there and fans have always wanted it, and he's a
former world champion, super experienced, and it's a good chip
on my belt to test myself in the ring with
a very, very tough opponent. And he has, you know,
(10:59):
the name behind him, the Mexican fan base, Puerto Rico
versus Mexico, and he was actually somebody that stepped.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Jake's not Puerto Rican.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
I know, I know that he knows this, but he
has like become the ibso facto like Elgaio de Doado.
I'm Puerto Rico versus Mexico. Jake's from Ohio. But also
this is why I like the Julio Sayser Chavez Junior fight,
and maybe there's there's not many fighters that can check
this box for Jake, but everything he said is right.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
There's a big name there, there's legacy there.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
His father is one of the greatest, if not the
greatest Mexican boxer ever.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
There is a bit of a challenge there.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
If Julios sayser Chiveez is truly off the the you know,
like cocaine and all the hard drugs and everything else,
and he's gotten himself clean, this.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Would be a tough, a tough night out.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
And if he was, you know, he's thirty nine, so
he's a little bit over the over the hill. But
these are like good little boxes to check for where
Jake's at. I don't That's why I don't mind this
fight at all.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
I like it.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
But I think the point I'm making with this video
is to just ask the question, what are we doing this?
This is not a good thing to me moving forward
for Tank Davis. I mean, it's great for Jake. If
he wins, it's more exposure. Even if he's just in
the fight, it's more exposure. It doesn't really matter whether
he wins or loses, because you know, people casual audience
already think Tank is just gonna wash him as a sport.
(12:17):
For Jake to now be in the line of pro
boxing MVP, you know, the promotion itself, the whole thing,
integrity of the sport.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
What are we doing? Is this good for the sport?
I don't know. I don't think so. I don't like it.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
I don't think this is a good idea because if
this becomes the mainstay. I said this seven years ago.
If exhibitions or just fighters that are championship level taking
massive paydays to do exhibition fights or jumping up in
ridiculous amounts of weight fights to have some sort of
a circus fight becomes the norm because there's a lot
of money in it, then what happens to integrity the sport?
(12:54):
What happens to building champions? What's the point of boxing
at that point? Because everybody says boxing is a business,
is not a sport. If things like this continue to happen,
it will be for sure like that'll actually be the case.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
This one's a head scratcher for me. You guys, let
me know in the comments. Is this a good idea?
Because to me, Jake Paul versus Devonte Davis makes absolutely
no sense
Something else that's unfortunate is the idea that Jake Paul
might actually fight Gervonte Tank Davis.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
This can't be real.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
When it came up a couple of months ago, I
was like, you know what, I'm not even gonna cover
this because there's no way it's really There's no way
they're really gonna do that, because it makes no sense.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Why would you do that for him?
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Outside of it, like, okay, you can look at it
like an exhibition, which it will be, and we'll take
a look at some of the rule set for it.
But Jervonte Davis is one of, if not the best,
biggest names at one hundred and thirty five pounds and
is an active, in his prime fighter. Don't I don't
want to hear this similar to Floyd and Logan thing,
because at that point Floyd was retired.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Floyd had done all he needed to do in the sport.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Tank is still in his prime, still has multiple high
level opponents that he needs to fight, and you can say, oh,
you know, the Jake would be a one off side quest,
that's fine, But that just tells me that Tank doesn't
care about being a high level champion in the sport.
Anymore tells me that he's done competitively in the sport.
If he takes a fight with Jake Paul, it tells
me he's done, and that's unfortunate. Yeah, Tank has been
(01:06):
talking about retirement. If he goes this route, it's almost certain,
like it's it's pack it up, it's over with because
the fight makes no sense. It doesn't even make sense
for Jake. For all the things Jake's talking about doing,
it makes no sense for him. Again, money, sure, if
it makes dollars, make sense, Okay, fine, But I want
to see Jake in competitive matchups where I am interested
(01:27):
in the outcome.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
I'm not interested in this. I'm not interested in the
outcome of this.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
I was interested in Floyd versus Logan because there was
an idea that Floyd was a little slower, a little older,
and Logan would be able to knock him out. If
Jake knocks Tank out, so what what does that do
for him? Because he said he could beat Canelo, he
said he could beat Anthony Joshua. I just this one
to me, Like, I've gotten on board with a lot
of Jake fights because they've made sense right to me,
(01:50):
they've made sense even Juliosayser Chavez after he's already beaten
the guy that beat Julio Sayser Chavez Junior beat Anderson
Silva a couple of years back. Now that's this one
still kind of makes sense because you're getting a maybe
a better version of Jabez and you know he's around
the same weight. Now, when you talk about the Tank fight,
I just I don't understand it. I don't understand it.
But let's take a look at what he said to
(02:11):
Arieljwane and see how he explains this fight was the
next one Tank.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Mean that was on the one yard line as well.
But he has to rematch, you know, Lamont Roach. He
wants to get that back and then we'll be back
in discussions with mister Gervante. But uh man, this is
the nature of Boxton. You have massive fights on the
one yard line and things just fall through.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Again.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
I just don't know why, why why would this be
where you go like Mike Tyson thing I could kind
of understand because it's Mike and it's an exhibition and
he's retired.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Tank still being.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
In the competitive nature of the sport rows this one
completely off for me and the fact that Jake is
like sixty pounds bigger than he is, right, Like, Mike
was obviously far older than Jake, and that was the
big knock on that fight.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Mike should not have been in there with Jake. So
that many times.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Jake has fought so hard against people saying he's bad
for the sport. He's bad for the sport. He doesn't
actually want to fight or step up or do any
of this stuff. And I've kind of had his back
when I'm like, no, he is doing what most boxers
have done early in their career. But this gives those
people more ammo to be like, yeah, bro, look, this
is what we're talking about when we say he's bad
(03:21):
for the sport, or when we say that he's doing
stuff that doesn't make sense and he's making a mockery
of things.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
This is what they're talking about.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
And again I wouldn't have any problem with itf Tank
was way past the point where he could fight competitively
at his weight class and have fights with guys like
Shaquor Stevens or even again rematching guys like Ryan Garcia,
those type of fights that people want to see that
make more sense. This one doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
I don't know though, because I never really thought Tank
was that good. It would just take the right fighter
to pick him apart, to be honest, someone who had
high activity and wasn't afraid of his power.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
So I always saw so many.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Whole in his game, So to me, it wasn't that
surprising that someone finally gave him some good work.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
If you do fight, what weight would it be at?
Speaker 3 (04:08):
One hundred ninety five?
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Oh wow?
Speaker 5 (04:10):
So he would go all the way from forty to
ninety five?
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Yeah, I mean it would be an exhibition.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Okay, okay, yeah, I was gonna say it does any
No one actually believes that Tank Davis is putting on
fifty pounds to come up.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
And fight Jake, But yeah, what the fuck are we doing?
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Tank will at most weigh one hundred and fifty five
maybe one sixty. They're not gonna sanction it because no one, no,
no matter how many corrupt commissions there are in the
United States, no one is gonna look at that fight
and be like, yeah, pro about No, it would be
an exhibition. She doesn't make any sense. And then here's
another part of this. If Jake, like maybe the PBA.
(04:47):
If Jake was earlier on in his career. I wouldn't
be as harsh with this matchup as I'm being. Part
of the reason Logan and Floyd Mayweather worked was because
Logan was a relative novice, right he had had a
couple of fights. Jake is like into his double digit
fight pro career. Now he's getting more experience. Whether you
think he's good or not, he's getting better, and so
(05:10):
the disadvantages that he would inherently have as a boxer
that he could make up for with size and weight
and things like that. I'm not saying he is the
same level as Jervonte Davis, but I'm saying they're becoming
less and less to the point where you look at
this fight and you're like, what is the point? Because
Jake is getting better. He is, he knows how to
protect himself, he can box, and he's bigger by a
wide margin. So it is almost a stacked deck against
(05:33):
Jervonte Davis. If Jake knocks out Jervonte Davis, like, I
don't even know if I would be impressed, I'd go, uh, okay,
all right, it's gonna look awful that you like knocked
out the guy that looks like someone's little brother compared
to you. And yes, we know it's Jervonte, but I
just Tank can have way more skill. But snags until
you've put gloves on and actually stepped in with people
(05:54):
like at a massively different way. Unless like Tank just
lands a bomb on his chin, which could happen, It's
gonna be very hard for him to hurt Jake badly.
It's gonna be very hard to do. Will they let
Jake fight Tank with ten ounces?
Speaker 2 (06:06):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
I don't know what the rules like glove stuff, I
don't know. So this is just again it's like when
you start to look deeper into it, the less impressive
it becomes. If Jake actually goes in and beats him
or like whatever. This is gonna give all the people
that Jake tried to like change their minds with how.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
He approached the sport.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
This is gonna do all like, it's gonna do away
with all that good will and people are gonna go no,
we were right in the beginning.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
You're bad for the sport.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
But and so what does that mean? Is that is
that three minute rounds?
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Ten three minute rounds.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
And when you say exhibition, like are what are the
restrictions on that.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
No restrictions, just the fact that, like we couldn't actually
get it professionally sanctioned.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
Okay, is that still of interest to you? Like if
he wins the rematch and you beat Julio, is that
of great interest to you?
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Later this year for sure? For sure?
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Like I said, big events, And you know when we
had announcement videos filmed for Canelo and for Jervonte, like
both filmed and fully edited, and my team went into
the streets to ask people what they thought of me
versus Davonte. Every single person was like, Davante would kill Jake.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
He's gonna die, all of this stuff.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
And so just proving people wrong and changing the narrative
and showing people that I'm a better boxer than all
these so called pound for pounds, it's just fun for me.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Jake has lost it a little bit here because that's
not what beating Jervonte Davis does.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
That doesn't make Jake a better boxer.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
And again, I don't even know how this would even look,
but that's not He knows that that's not what it does.
He says, changing the narrative, But that's not a narrative.
Anyone's saying unless they don't watch the sport, that doesn't
change the narrative.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
That just creates one.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
And as much as you know, there's been a narrative
about Jake, which is, you know, ah, he only fights
old men, or he doesn't fight fighters his age, or
he doesn't fight in his way. There's been those narratives.
But Jake, make no mistake about it. I think that
those have been unfair at times. People are talking about,
you know, how young he is as a boxer versus
what he should be doing. But Jake has also created
a lot of narratives for himself, like the way he
(08:12):
talked about the Tyron Woodleigh fight, the way he talked
about Anderson Silva, the way he talked about Nate Diaz.
And again he's right and what he was saying, I
beat the best striker ever. Okay, he's right, but there's
context missing. I beat the best baddest man on the planet. Right,
but there's context missing. You know, I beat a former
UFC World well Thray champion. Yeah, but there's context missing.
I told you guys four years ago that Jake was
(08:32):
the king of creating and spinning narratives when it came
to the verbiage he used around the fight. You said
he's not chasing boxing glory, and I have to push
back because you're right that he'll chase massive fights, and
this would be a massive fight numbers wise, and of
course we're gonna watch it. But he has stated he
wants to chase boxing. He has stated he wants to
become a world champion. He has stated those things. So
(08:53):
you get to a point where, yes, you can take sidetracks.
And this is why I'm not I'm not criticizing the
Canelo on his much right, because Canelo is at least
closer to his weight and closer to the end of
his career in my opinion, maybe not. But the Dravante
won is such a wide gap, and it's just it's
it's such a polarizing, middle of the road thing for Javonte.
(09:14):
It's more so Dravante accepting this because of course Jake's
gonna call out the biggest names in the sport. And
then if he wins, like I said, we talked about
this with the Juliosser Chavez Junior fight, I fully expect
Jake to win that fight and he potentially is gonna
knock Juliosaser Chavez Junior out and when he does, he'll
get on the microphone and he will say I did
what Canel could or Canelo could not do, and it
(09:35):
will be devoid of context, but he will have actually
done that. He will have knocked out a guy that
Canelo could knock out. And so if he does this
to Dravonte Davis, he will get on the mic and say,
I be one of the best boxers, so I'm one
of the best boxers. At the same time, he'll be
flat out incorrect in the context of it. In the
same breath is I'll criticize him for this one because
I just don't It doesn't compute to me, and I
(09:56):
think it is a bad thing for the sport to
just do exhibitions in the middle of fighters primes. I
don't think it's a good idea, especially if if Tank
were to not look very good, because then what like,
are you interested in his next fight? If Jake makes
him look relatively mediocre. You know, if if nothing really
happens and both guys come out of there with the
old exhibition draw because there's no decisions we care about
(10:16):
him versus chakor then you know, I don't know, does
the does the we may but does the buying audience care?
Speaker 2 (10:22):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Then Jake will go in and challenge Gordo Ramirez and
it's like what the fuck? Okay, I guess like that's
way too big a step up to me, but who knows.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
So then ultimately, how did you end up with Julio
And were there other names that were being considered before
you did end up with him?
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (10:38):
I mean I think Julio, that conversation has always been
there and fans have always wanted it, and he's a
former world champion, super experienced, and it's a good chip
on my belt to test myself in the ring with
a very, very tough opponent. And he has, you know,
(10:59):
the name behind him, the Mexican fan base, Puerto Rico
versus Mexico, and he was actually somebody that stepped.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Jake's not Puerto Rican.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
I know, I know that he knows this, but he
has like become the ibso facto like Elgaio de Doado.
I'm Puerto Rico versus Mexico. Jake's from Ohio. But also
this is why I like the Julio Sayser Chavez Junior fight,
and maybe there's there's not many fighters that can check
this box for Jake, but everything he said is right.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
There's a big name there, there's legacy there.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
His father is one of the greatest, if not the
greatest Mexican boxer ever.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
There is a bit of a challenge there.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
If Julios sayser Chiveez is truly off the the you know,
like cocaine and all the hard drugs and everything else,
and he's gotten himself clean, this.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Would be a tough, a tough night out.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
And if he was, you know, he's thirty nine, so
he's a little bit over the over the hill. But
these are like good little boxes to check for where
Jake's at. I don't That's why I don't mind this
fight at all.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
I like it.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
But I think the point I'm making with this video
is to just ask the question, what are we doing this?
This is not a good thing to me moving forward
for Tank Davis. I mean, it's great for Jake. If
he wins, it's more exposure. Even if he's just in
the fight, it's more exposure. It doesn't really matter whether
he wins or loses, because you know, people casual audience
already think Tank is just gonna wash him as a sport.
(12:17):
For Jake to now be in the line of pro
boxing MVP, you know, the promotion itself, the whole thing,
integrity of the sport.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
What are we doing? Is this good for the sport?
I don't know. I don't think so. I don't like it.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
I don't think this is a good idea because if
this becomes the mainstay. I said this seven years ago.
If exhibitions or just fighters that are championship level taking
massive paydays to do exhibition fights or jumping up in
ridiculous amounts of weight fights to have some sort of
a circus fight becomes the norm because there's a lot
of money in it, then what happens to integrity the sport?
(12:54):
What happens to building champions? What's the point of boxing
at that point? Because everybody says boxing is a business,
is not a sport. If things like this continue to happen,
it will be for sure like that'll actually be the case.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
This one's a head scratcher for me. You guys, let
me know in the comments. Is this a good idea?
Because to me, Jake Paul versus Devonte Davis makes absolutely
no sense
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