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JAKE PAUL has claimed UFC president Dana White won’t allow Jorge Masvidal to fight him because he’s ‘scared to get embarrassed.’The Problem Child has been pursuing a boxing match with Gamebred ever since the UFC welterweight tipped him to lose his clash with Tyron Woodley.
YouTuber turned boxer Jake Paul is desperate to face Jorge Masvidal nextCredit: Zuffa LLC
UFC president Dana White, however, has shut down the ideaCredit: Getty
The Problem Child issued a Twitter ultimatum to White on Wednesday nightCredit: TWITTER
White was quick to shut down the idea of allowing the under contract Masvidal to face the younger Paul brother, urging the YouTuber to throw down with MMA great Anderson Silva.
That irked the former Disney star, who tweeted a lengthy note with the accompanying caption: “@danawhite why you so scared to get embarrassed?”
The attached note read: “‘Anderson’s out… JAKE JAKE JAKE.’
“I want your star talent. Your ‘in their prime’ strikers so I can exploit their lack of Boxing ability.
“So let’s do this. Me vs. Jorge Masvidal and Amanda Serrano vs. Amanda Nunes…
“If we win, you let any of your fighters fight me going forward.

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“If we lose, I leave you and your exploitative business alone. DANA…DANA…DANA?”
Paul, 24, hasn’t been shy in voicing his stance on fighter pay in the UFC, taking White and the company to task on social media and in several interviews.
Last month, he said: “It’s something I’m bullish on and something that needs to change.
“For my fight, when we were building out the undercard, I was like, ‘We need to make sure this fight, these fighters, every single person on this card gets paid the most they ever got paid to fight.’
“I just want to spread the wealth and be about my words and put action behind my words and be the change instead of just talking about the change.”
Me vs. Jorge Masvidal and Amanda Serrano vs. Amanda NunesAn Excerpt of Jake Paul’s Note to Dana White
Paul was last in action in August against former UFC 170lb king Woodley, whom he defeated via split decision in his home state of Ohio.
And he’s hellbent on his next outing be a grudge match with Masvidal, who he trained with in Miami ahead of his clash with Ben Askren.
When asked about his next fight, he told MMA Fighting: “I mean honestly just from a personal standpoint, I would love for it to be Masvidal.
“Just cause of the sh*t talk. Just cause of his name.
“Just cause he’s still in his prime era and there’s a lot of personal beef there. I just took out his boy Tyron.
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“But hopefully Dana [White] would let him out of his contract but we’re not sure if that can happen.
“But for me personally, I think that would be the toughest challenge, the toughest guy and the biggest name.
The most relevant currently. I think that’s the one to make. I think it will happen at some point regardless, but that’s at the top of my list for sure.”

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VITOR BELFORT wants to merge boxing and MMA into a new sport – and has challenged Canelo Alvarez to fight under the all-new rules. The Brazilian, who held the UFC light-heavyweight title in 2004, used his boxing and jiujitsu skills to become an accomplished MMA legend.
Vitor Belfort wants to merge boxing and MMA rulesCredit: Getty
Vitor Belfort is a former UFC championCredit: Getty – Contributor
He left the UFC in 2018 and now returns in a boxing match against heavyweight legend Evander Holyfield, 58, on Saturday night.
But Belfort, officially 1-0 as a boxer after his sole bout in 2006, has a vision to mix his two passions.
It would allow for clinching during a fight, but no MMA strikes such as kicks, elbows or knees as well as prohibited takedowns.
Belfort believes it brings the two sports into one, and sets up more super-crossover fights with stars of the opposing codes combining their rules.
He told SunSport: “The future of combat sports is the merge between these two amazing combat sports. 
“Right now, we are boxing under boxing rules, and I accept it. But in the future, I want to mix boxing with the martial arts aspect. 

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“There’s so many guys out there, you name it, tons of champions and my goal is to merge. 
“I want to call it ‘Box Martial Arts’. If they will be courageous enough – I don’t want kicks, I don’t want knees, I don’t want elbows.
“I don’t want it to go to the ground. I just want to be able to box and hold you, to be able to fight in the clinch. I want to see if they can survive that.
“And that’s why I want to merge, I believe I can beat any guy, in any division in boxing with those kind of rules.”
Former UFC champions such as Belfort, 44, Conor McGregor, 33, and Anderson Silva, 46, have all crossed over to the ring before.
But boxers heading into the cage has been far more limited, with James Toney, 53, and Claressa Shields, 26, the two most high profile.
Belfort believes his all-new merger would allow for a more even playing field, and gives MMA fighters added freedom in the ring.
The future of combat sports is the merge between these two amazing combat sports. Vitor Belfort
He said: “It’s like literally bringing what I’ve been working my whole life for, evolving boxing into my sport. 
“It’s called boxing-martial arts. Boxing has so many rules, you can’t do this, you can’t do that, so I want to see if a boxer can box with me with these kind of rules. 
“I call it evening the ground a little, not with kicking, with punches and that’s where I challenge anyone, anyone in the whole entire boxing world.”
Belfort is convinced his masterplan is revolutionary and wants to put it to the test against boxing’s current top attraction Canelo.
He said: “It’s going to be like discovering gold, we have so many good guys out there.
“Canelo is one, champions versus champions, legends versus legends.”
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TYRON WOODLEY ‘looked like a sack of s***’ in his ‘very embarrassing’ loss to YouTuber Jake Paul, ex-UFC title challenger Dan Hardy said.Woodley was beaten by Paul on points after eight rounds despite having the social media star hurt in round four after sending him into the ropes.
Tyron Woodley was beaten by Jake PaulCredit: Getty
Former UFC fighter and pundit Dan Hardy, right, said Woodley looked like a ‘sack of s***’Credit: Getty
It ended months of trash talk and build up between the pair, which included a spat at a press conference where Woodley’s mother was involved.
But after the former UFC champion suffered defeat, Hardy hit out at the American with a brutal assesement.
He told Submission Radio: “He looked like a sack of s*** the other week.
“That was very embarrassing. The reason I’m annoyed about it, is that he validated exactly what I thought was gonna happen, and I expected more from him.
“Like dude, you’re nearly 40, you’re rap game’s not going anywhere, you’re MMA career’s done, you’ve got a guy in front of you that’s been trashing your mum, that’s been talking a whole heap of nonsense for how many months?
“And you’ve got eight rounds to punch him in the face and you’re already half punching him through the ropes, and then you don’t put your foot on the gas because you’re afraid of being vulnerable?

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“That just looks weak to me. It looks weak and it wastes people’s money.”
Paul, 24, moved to 4-0 in his career and added to his wins over online rival ‘AnEsonGib’, ex-NBA player Nate Robinson and retired UFC welterweight Ben Askren, both 37.
Former champ Woodley, 39, left the UFC after four consecutive losses, without a win in three years, with his run of defeats stretching over to the boxing ring.
Hardy, 39, said: “I love all these weird and wonderful fights, but that’s when it runs out of steam.
“Like, that’s when the fire burns out, is when people tune in and they see that s***show and they go, ‘Oh, I won’t get it next time, because I’ll expect the same thing’.
“I’d rather watch Askren get knocked out again than watch that. And Askren wasn’t there to win, we all know that.
“I think what’s even worse is that Woodley was there to win and he didn’t try.
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“And that must burn him. That was burning him in the post-fight interview.
“He could barely contain himself without calling him out before he finished his interview.
“It’s like dude, you’ve missed your opportunity, shut the f*** up and sit down and go and find something else to do, because you’ve just had your opportunity and it passed you by.”
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