JAKE PAUL was involved in a backstage bust-up with Tommy Fury after beating Tyron Woodley.
Fury outpointed Paul’s sparring partner, MMA fighter Anthony Taylor over four rounds on the undercard.
Having signed a two-fight deal with US network Showtime, the Love Island star has angled to face the YouTuber next.
But after Paul scored a split-decision win over former UFC champion Woodley, Fury was unable to get in the ring afterwards.
It led to a bust-up between the opposing teams which was captured on film and shared on social media.
After Paul squares up to the Brit – who was doing an interview – and appears to say ‘What’s going on Tom?’, Fury tells him: “You need to stop running my friend, let’s get it on.”
The pair’s camps then seem to trade insults before chaos ensues, and the two fighters are split up as Fury repeatedly shouts ‘take the fight’.
Discussing the incident, Paul said: “Look, the guy really had nothing to say, he had a mediocre performance against my sparring partner.
“All credit to Anthony Taylor he’s a tough guy but Tommy Fury is supposed to be this tough, big bad guy, legendary bloodline.
“I got into his face and let him talk. I don’t have anything to say to him – at the end of the day I hired him to be here, I gave him an opportunity to shine. I don’t have any bad blood I just said, ‘Yo tell your girl to get out of my DMs.’
“At the end of the day, will we see that fight? I would run that s*** easy – that’s an easier fight than Tyron in my opinion.
“People say he’s a real boxer – OK, maybe, let’s run it real boxer.”
Fury, 22, was having none of it though and gave his side of events.
He claimed: “Jake saw me ringside, I was leaning over the ropes waiting to get in. Logan said not now. They ain’t fighters.
“I was ready to throw hands there and then. This guy [Jake] doesn’t understand – me and my team will go now, we’ll get stuck in so he can count his blessings.
“Forty of his security team broke it up because the man can’t fight. Imagine him on the street… please. He wouldn’t last two seconds.
“If he had no security team there with him, he would have walked straight past me.
“There was a moment in that corridor where everything was going off between the security, my team, his team and it was just me and him.
“I looked dead into his soul. When the cameras are not around, he doesn’t want to know.
“Let’s be honest, if he really wanted to fight me, I’d have been in that ring there at the end through the ropes, let’s go, there’s no return.
“But he didn’t want that and the reason why he didn’t want me in the ring is because if I was getting in there, he wouldn’t be able to go back on it.”
Source: Boxing - thesun.co.uk
