{"id":297410,"date":"2023-11-18T12:23:57","date_gmt":"2023-11-18T12:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tellmysport.com\/?p=297410"},"modified":"2023-11-18T12:23:57","modified_gmt":"2023-11-18T12:23:57","slug":"paul-mcgregor-underestimated-my-quality-at-the-start-of-my-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tellmysport.com\/boxing\/paul-mcgregor-underestimated-my-quality-at-the-start-of-my-career\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul: McGregor underestimated my quality at the start of my career"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Jake Paul claims Conor McGregor underestimated his quality at the start of his career and isn&#8217;t surprised he&#8217;s interested in a fight&#8230; as he insists he&#8217;s &#8216;on a different level&#8217; to the Irishman and predicts he will fight a &#8216;low level influencer&#8217;<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Jake Paul has long been linked with a lucrative fight against Conor McGregor\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>He thinks the Irishman underestimated him but insists he is on a &#8216;different level&#8217;\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Latest as huge list of big fighters head for Saudi on December 23: The Hook<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Jake Paul\u00a0believes Conor McGregor underestimated him at the start of his career but now feels he is &#8216;on a different level to the Irishman&#8217; &#8211; as he prepares for his next fight against Andre August.<\/p>\n<p>Paul has risen up the ranks in boxing by defeating a number of former UFC stars in crossover events &#8211; including Nate Diaz, Anderson Silva and Tyron Woodley &#8211; which he claims has led to White being reluctant to sanction a fight against one of his high-profile fighters.<\/p>\n<p>A fight betwen Paul and McGregor has long been talked about &#8211; though the Irishman has been out of the Octagon for more than two years. McGregor is set to face Michael Chandler next, despite a date not being locked down, while Paul fights boxer August on December 15.<\/p>\n<p>Paul&#8217;s profile is only going up, while questions remain on McGregor&#8217;s future as his return to the cage continues to be delayed.<\/p>\n<p>When asked if he felt McGregor underestimated him at the beginning of his career, Paul told Mail Sport: &#8216;For sure. I think along with other people.\u00a0They thought it was mostly talk and the fight wasn&#8217;t going to back it up.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/18\/10\/77960565-12765005-image-a-12_1700304125758.jpg\" height=\"425\" width=\"306\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/18\/10\/77960579-12765005-image-m-13_1700304130244.jpg\" height=\"425\" width=\"306\"><\/p>\n<p>Jake Paul claims Conor McGregor underestimated him at the start of his career &#8211; and insists he is &#8216;on a different level&#8217; to him<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/18\/10\/77960589-12765005-image-a-14_1700304186518.jpg\" height=\"475\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Paul says UFC boss Dana White would never sanction a fight between himself and McGregor<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;[Ben] Askren, Woodley, Silva, everyone ends up on the canvas and they second guess themselves. He doesn&#8217;t want that, he&#8217;s going to stay far away from me. I see a world where he fights a lower level influencer to make some money.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>It comes after McGregor&#8217;s manager Audie Attar refrused to rule out a fight with Paul, saying:<span>\u00a0&#8216;<\/span><span>I think the challenge with combat sports is looking that far ahead. You never say never.&#8217;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>At this point, Paul does not think the McGregor fight will ever come to fruition because he has &#8216;made the UFC look bad&#8217; by defeating their legends.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I&#8217;m not really focused on it just because [McGregor] is not really his own boss,&#8217; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Even if he really wanted it to happen, he&#8217;s got to ask for his dad Dana&#8217;s permission and that&#8217;s just not something that Dana is going to let happen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Look what I&#8217;ve done to the rest of their legends, I&#8217;m making the rest of the company look bad. I&#8217;m only getting better with my craft and I don&#8217;t think Conor wants that.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Jake Paul&#8217;s last fight saw him comfortably beat Diaz in August via a unanimous decision, while McGregor has fought Diaz twice in the UFC &#8211; submitting him once in March 2016 before winning via decision later that year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/18\/10\/77960619-12765005-image-a-15_1700304332528.jpg\" height=\"459\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>He claimed he was &#8216;going up&#8217; while McGregor was &#8216;going down&#8217; and predicted he could fight a &#8216;lower level influencer&#8217; in the future<\/p>\n<p>He believes he has shown he is &#8216;on another level&#8217; to McGregor, who he feels will end up fighting a &#8216;lower level influencer&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Nate Diaz [was] standing up [against Conor] going blow for blow, meanwhile I dismantled him with ease,&#8217; he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;He punches like pillows and he was able to hurt Conor. I have no idea how those punches were able to hurt anyone.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I&#8217;m just on a different level and he&#8217;s going down and i&#8217;m going up. At this point he needs me to make a big money fight. I&#8217;m more focused on becoming a world champion in the sport of boxing.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2023\/10\/25\/The%20Hook_Promo_Desktop.636.png\"><br \/>\nSource: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/article-12765005\/Jake-Paul-claims-Conor-McGregor-underestimated-quality-start-career-isnt-surprised-hes-interested-fight-insists-hes-different-level-Irishman-predicts-fight-low-level-influencer.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jake Paul claims Conor McGregor underestimated his quality at the start of his career and isn&#8217;t surprised he&#8217;s interested in a fight&#8230; as he insists he&#8217;s &#8216;on a different level&#8217; to the Irishman and predicts he will fight a &#8216;low level influencer&#8217; Jake Paul has long been linked with a lucrative fight against Conor McGregor\u00a0\u00a0&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297409,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Paul: McGregor underestimated my quality at the start of my career - Tell My Sport<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/tellmysport.com\/boxing\/paul-mcgregor-underestimated-my-quality-at-the-start-of-my-career\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Paul: McGregor underestimated my quality at the start of my career - Tell My Sport\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Jake Paul claims Conor McGregor underestimated his quality at the start of his career and isn&#8217;t surprised he&#8217;s interested in a fight&#8230; 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