CONOR McGREGOR’S training partner Kiefer Crosbie has told Jake Paul to forget about fighting the UFC star.
But Crosbie would gladly step in to shut Paul up following years of the YouTuber-turned boxer calling out McGregor.
He told SunSport: “I’d smoke Jake Paul, I’d smoke him. But obviously it comes down to a name thing.
“The easy thing is, ‘Who’s he?’ That’s the easy way out of that fight, ‘Who’s Kieffer Crosbie?’
“Cool, well move round with me then, mate. Spar me then, fight me then, it would never happen, he’d never fight me.
“He’d go after a bigger name with less skills, that’s what he’s trying to do or the biggest name where he knows it will never happen.
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“He’s calling out Canelo, calling out Conor, he knows them fights will never happen and he’d never win them fights, let’s be real.
“But yeah, I’d smash Jake Paul, easy. Let’s be real, he’s good and improved but you can only improve so much in a couple of years.
“I’m doing this my whole life, you can’t just jump into this sport and after two or three years think you can take on the world.”
Paul, 26, suffered defeat for the first time in February, losing a split-decision to Tommy Fury, 24, in Saudi Arabia.
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But he snubbed a rematch to instead return on August 5 in Texas against Nate Diaz, 38, who shared two classics in the octagon with McGregor.
Paul wants to fight McGregor, 34, afterwards and claimed he would even do it in the cage.
But Crosbie, 33, said: “Conor is the biggest combat sports athlete of all time, so of course the whole world is going to try call him out.
“Jake Paul calling someone like Conor out is just stupid to me. There’s levels to this game, let’s be real here.
“Look what Conor’s done, all his accomplishments. He’s one of the best of all time and that’s a way all these guys are trying to get clout.
“They’re calling Conor out to keep their name out there but that’s just what YouTubers and celebrities try to do.
“They’re looking for clickbait and Conor is not bothered about all them. Jake Paul, he’s a marketing genius.”
Source: Boxing - thesun.co.uk
