TOMMY FURY has hit back at YouTube boxer Jake Paul by claiming his mother could have beaten his last opponent Ben Askren.
Fury, the brother of heavyweight champion Tyson, has also told Paul to stop ‘going on like he’s Floyd Mayweather’.
Paul knocked out MMA star Askren in just one minute in Atlanta earlier this month as he moved to 3-0 as a professional.
And Paul has now come out publicly to state he will not take a 50/50 split with Fury as ‘the only reason people know of him is because of me’.
Fury has now responded to those comments and pulled no punches in his assessment of the YouTube star.
Speaking to talkSPORT, he said: “Make no mistake, it doesn’t matter to me whether my name’s linked with his because his name’s nothing to me.
“I’m a fighting man, I’m a boxer, so why do I care about a YouTuber? It doesn’t come into my world.
“So the fact that he’s come over to my world, he’s shouting his mouth about and he wants to insult me, let’s get in the ring, let’s do it.
“Me and him have had the same amount of fights. I’m not no big, great Olympian who’s won a gold medal and had 50,000 amateur fights.
“On paper we’re the same, so if he wants to be cocky and go on like he’s Floyd Mayweather, come and fight me.
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“And if you don’t, stop using the Fury name to gain relevance in the boxing world.”
Fury is 5-0 as a pro but is yet to really test himself against any quality opponent.
And he insists that Paul would simply be another easy victory for him to add to his record, one he would be more than happy to sign up to.
He added: “It’s a play-about for me. It’s a good fight for the fans, everyone wants to see him get annihilated, it’d give me a bit more exposure.
“Just send the contracts over, get in touch and we can make the fight no problem.
“It’s not no big thing that needs to be talked about for a year long, it’s not a big fight like Anthony Joshua vs Tyson, it’s not on that level.
“We’ll take the fight. If he sent the contract over tonight, it’d be signed and delivered straight back to him.
“All I see for that fight is easy money against an idiot.
“He makes YouTube videos for a living, he hasn’t been hit in his face in his entire life, he doesn’t know what it’s like to take a shot.
“I’d put my mother in with Ben Askren and my mother would chin him because he’s no good, he’s useless, he’s a wrestler.
“UFC is not boxing. If you’re gonna fight an MMA fighter you may as well fight a chef out of a kitchen because they can’t fight, they can’t stand up.”
Source: Boxing - thesun.co.uk
