I dont think many of the well known pro boxers started to climb the ladder by fighting against high level, or ranked names..
But at least fight against other pro boxers. Then i will look at him as a pro boxer.
he's better than the guys he fought so far. But there is no way to substitute for real experience. Even experienced, great fighters can change after going through a rough fight, and this guy hasn't been through 1 percent of the stuff they have.Jake Paul is a real boxer imo. He has completely dedicated his life to the sport of Boxing for years now. He has real skills and pop in his punches.
Jake Paul is a real boxer imo. He has completely dedicated his life to the sport of Boxing for years now. He has real skills and pop in his punches.
he's never fought a pro boxer so how can he be a pro boxer?
anyone who gets paid is a pro? ok, well then Ali was a pro at 12 years old because they had a little thing they did to get paid for winning, toughmen are pros too then. If that's the definition.Well anyone who gets paid to have a sanctioned boxing match, is a pro boxer. Skillwise he isn't that bad either. Atleast in terms of power
I think your qualification is a little demanding, as plenty of “real boxers” won’t even fight people like that on their 4th fight, unless we consider going 0-6 as genuine experience.He is a s popular youtuber. When he is going to fight a real pro-boxer he will be pro-boxer. His opponents so far: ex-basketball player, MMA wrestler and so on. All opponents with 0-0-0 record.
He needs a real cruiserweight opponent with at least 5-6 fights experience.
He's a pro boxer. There's plenty of pro boxers out there with the same record fighting suspect competition. He'll be more respected and taken seriously if he continues to win and starts facing other boxers on the same level. Let's see if he can get past Woodley first and what he does from there.
I believe its time he gets that respect
Once he ko'ed the former ONE and Bellator welterweight champion he definitely had my respect as a professional boxer. Yes Paul was a lot younger but Askren had far more experience and he still ko'ed him:
They had amatuer careers where they went through hard fights already they didn't start out fighting bumsI dont think many of the well known pro boxers started to climb the ladder by fighting against high level, or ranked names..
But at least fight against other pro boxers. Then i will look at him as a pro boxer.