Jake Paul once again proved that he is too good at boxing for people who aren’t boxers, stopping Mike Perry in the sixth round of their main event from Tampa.
Perry (0-2 in boxing) was down in the first, second, and sixth rounds. The first round knockdown was a flash, but the other two were much harder, and though he got up each time, the punishment was too much.
Paul is now 10-1 (7 KO) in his boxing career.
“He’s tough as nails,” Paul said after the fight. “He’s tough, man. Respect to Mike Perry. I just hit too hard, but he took a lot of damage. … I kinda expected that, but I did put him down in the first round. He just survived it. Mike Tyson, you’re next, big boy. Sign the contract.”
Paul also called out UFC light heavyweight champion Alex Pereira, who has expressed interest in boxing.
“You did a great job. You were way too fast for me and I couldn’t adjust,” Perry told Paul face-to-face. “I tried, man, but the kid hit me hard. Good job, man. Congratulations.”
Perry said he’d like to do an MMA or bare knuckle rematch.
Fast Take: Though the people calling the fights are paid to say Jake Paul is always improving, I personally can’t be so sure of that because he fights only non-boxers and a couple club-level boxers. There’s no way to be sure that he’s improved because he only fights under-sized opponents with low-level ability, and his next plan is to fight a guy pushing 60 who hasn’t fought in nearly 20 years and was losing to the Kevin McBrides of the world by that point. This entire venture remains a marketing gimmick — and a successful one — more than it is a boxing career you can try to analyze like a normal boxing career. This was not a competitive fight. Perry is a flat-out terrible boxer in a boxing ring under boxing rules; an extremely tough man who is game as hell and was never going to quit on this fight, but everything he did in there was done poorly. He’s not a boxer, and to me it’s impossible to judge Jake Paul’s boxing ability simply because it’s better than the ability of people who aren’t boxers.