[Boxing] Jake Paul vs Ben Askren on April 17

[btc_angela]

it started with Mcgregor now everybody is crossing already. i guess it must be tough for Askren after the terrible loss with just a few seconds lol. but he must have thought seriously about it and after all, he won't be hit by a flying knee in the sports of boxing. boxing isn't easy at all boxing gloves are heavy and for a first-timer, 8 rounds must be exhausting.

Yes, McGregor is the one who started this kind of fights and set the precedent.

And now everyone wants to do it, specially if their career is over in MMA, like Ben Askren. He really can't get over it mentality, leading to the fight there are a lot of trash talking between him and Masvidal. And then he gets knockout cold in 5 seconds.

how much is he going to profit from this fight?

Probably in the 6 digits figures, we don't know what the purse split is, maybe 50/50, still good money for him after he left UFC.

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[TopTort777]

Come on Ben, dont be a joke. This is not yours. There are more different ways to earn. Dont copy/paste Mayweather vs Logan Paul fight (even copy/pasted opponent name lol).

What do we know about Jake Paul - YouTuber, actor, social media influencer, entrepreneur, rapper, professional boxer. A rapper… Does Mayweather rap ?

Ben, if Jake Paul sends you to sleep, you will be humiliated till the end of your life.

[Natalim]

What is happening to the world of sports now? why do we have a lot of clown who try to ruined the reputation of the sport?
A youtuber fighting an ex MMA fighter, I don't like what I'm seeing anymore, sorry, but I feel like they are trying to make a circus in the sports just to make money.
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Indeed. This is also I thought at first. I remember Conor Mcgregor when he fought Mayweather inside the boxing ring, purely entertainment and dramas. Equal to pure tons of money.

But if we only talk about this fight, I rather go for Jake Paul here inside the boxing ring against Askren, even Jake Paul got still few bouts. Atleast, Jake Paul already got experienced on boxing. 2-0 records for Jake Paul on starting his boxing career is already quite good.

Suddenly boxing has become a Wrestling match where everything can be scripted, the passion in boxing is gone, it's only now because of the money.
The problem is we are still supporting them, I know they are good in marketing but we should be smart in supporting our favorite sport and that is to keep its reputation.

We can't stop these promoters but if we will not support them, they will eventually stop as no one would promote if they are not profiting on it.

I'm wishing I would not see more like this.

[Insanerman]

What is happening to the world of sports now? why do we have a lot of clown who try to ruined the reputation of the sport?

Dude since there had been a pandemic, some popular people really just wanted to have an entertainment, especially with the fact that the pandemic had affected the Boxing fights and the hype turns a little less compared to what it really was. It is not really ruining the reputation lol Boxing itself is a form of entertainment, and not limited to certain fighters alone.

This fight is still hilarious. 2 popular trashtalkers would fight for money and I somehow find this entertaining as its hype makes me laugh -- especially how those two would be trash talking each other. In fact, this kind of fights shouldn't be taken seriously. It's like you're watching an exhibition game yet you've think it is on the olympics. Chill guys, this is just for fun, either you bet and pay to watch or not, nothing changes in the boxing world.

[yazher]

After that Mayweather and Mcgregor fight, we see such things are becoming popular to the people and not only that, some basketball players have joined the trend as well but as we can see it's not really fit for them. Whatever sports you are good at, you should stick with that so that you will improve more or gather more experience to teach it to the youngster. Don't follow the steps with these guys, they are just simply making stupid things with their unwise decisions.

[Dave1]

Ben Askren fighting again? this time a hype Jake Paul? doesn't make sense except for the huge money that will be generated by this two hype fighters.What they can do is fight in their social media accounts.

I don't like this so called fighting for exhibition or for the money, those are not for the legacy like Floyd Mayweather which started this whole cross over fights.

[Jating]

After that Mayweather and Mcgregor fight, we see such things are becoming popular to the people and not only that, some basketball players have joined the trend as well but as we can see it's not really fit for them. Whatever sports you are good at, you should stick with that so that you will improve more or gather more experience to teach it to the youngster. Don't follow the steps with these guys, they are just simply making stupid things with their unwise decisions.

Well that is Floyd and Conor, that time there are hype surrounding this two fighters, Floyd being the boxing's best fighter, no defeat at all, and Conor so brandish and trash talker and really can sell the fights.

But this two? a faded UFC fighter who become the meme after his 5 seconds lost to Masvidal? And Jake Paul, who I'm not familiar with except when he entered the ring. So I'll pass on this one.

[Saisher]

Ben Askren fighting again? this time a hype Jake Paul? doesn't make sense except for the huge money that will be generated by this two hype fighters.What they can do is fight in their social media accounts.

I don't like this so called fighting for exhibition or for the money, those are not for the legacy like Floyd Mayweather which started this whole cross over fights.

They are just here to entertain us, give them a chance to entertain us I like Jake Paul training in boxing he can give us surprise us, this is his biggest test against a veteran fighter, but I don't think he can do what he did to Nate Robinson, he is in for a serious fight and he could be in big trouble.

[Questat]

Honestly, I don't know Ben Askren, I've never seen him fight before, maybe he is not popular.
I'll go check his youtube video if he has but I've seen Jake Paul fight already last year, and he has a skills in boxing against a non professional boxer.

Seems like Jake Paul like his brother is using their popularity and taking advantage on making easy money on exhibition fights.
I'm gonna watch this one, I'll find a way because I'm not gonna pay for the PPV.

[Fundamentals Of]

Ben Askren fighting again? this time a hype Jake Paul? doesn't make sense except for the huge money that will be generated by this two hype fighters.What they can do is fight in their social media accounts.

I don't like this so called fighting for exhibition or for the money, those are not for the legacy like Floyd Mayweather which started this whole cross over fights.

I don't even think that there will be a lot of money to be generated from this fight. This is probably a very boring fight.

Ben Askren is not a superstar. He may have been a great fighter but he has not reached the popularity of the likes of Conor McGregor. And he is a retired fighter who is now old and has been inactive for more than a year. Aside from that, he was not really focused on boxing even during his MMA days.

Jake Paul on the other hand is another noob in the boxing ring.

[ene1980]

Yes, McGregor is the one who started this kind of fights and set the precedent.

And now everyone wants to do it, specially if their career is over in MMA, like Ben Askren. He really can't get over it mentality, leading to the fight there are a lot of trash talking between him and Masvidal. And then he gets knockout cold in 5 seconds.

If someone is able to make money even after retirement i would support them, i am not a big fan of the match up because Ben Askren was never a great boxer in MMA and how he is able to manage someone like Jake Paul who is trained to box even though he is not an established boxer.
About the Masvidal fight i never expected the fight to be over in record time, i was expecting Ben Askren to take Masvidal down and finish the fight but it was a great game plan by Masvidal.

[pinggoki]

Honestly, this fight between Jake Paul and Ben Askren was not on my list to be watched on or maybe because I am not a fan of these two, although we can say that they are both a good boxer or good fighters still they are just underrated boxers, despite being underrated boxers still, they have a good standing especially with Ben Askren that has a 19-2 of standing so when I'm about to pick between those two then probably I will pick Ben over Jake because he has more experience based on the standing.

[qwertyup23]

Although not on the same level but this fight kinda resembles the fight between Mayweather and McGreggor where both of them have excel at their respective fields. I have not seen any of the fights of Jake Paul but I have watched Ben Askren in UFC (where he got KOed in a few seconds).

To be honest, this fight does not hype me that much due to the fact that the other is an amateur in boxing. Though I am not sure if this is a fundraising activity or a real fight, it won't get my hypes up but I might watch it though.
 

[notblox1]

I am looking at bookies odds and Jake Paul is heavy favorite in this fight, but I don't consider him serious boxer or fighter with only two fights.

Ben Askren is better bitcoiner than boxer, but let's see how well he is in predicting his fights, TKO win in 7th round is what he is saying on Twitter

[7788bitcoin]

Come on Ben, dont be a joke. This is not yours. There are more different ways to earn. Dont copy/paste Mayweather vs Logan Paul fight (even copy/pasted opponent name lol).

Jake Paul is the younger brother of Logan Paul if you are not aware of that and both the brothers were high school amateur  wrestlers and they were good at it and it would be great if Jake Paul and Ben Askren wrestled or did submission wrestling rather than box because Jake Paul is boxing along with his brother for big money and Ben Askren was never known as a good boxer in his MMA career.

Ben, if Jake Paul sends you to sleep, you will be humiliated till the end of your life.

Not sure what Ben Askren is thinking but the risk of getting humiliated once again is a possibility.

[YuginKadoya]

Jake Paul must be wanting to try the Jorge Masvidal knock out,  or he wants to try a fighter with a ground level of technique, but I think Jake Paul is getting ahead of himself in my opinion, After winning two fights on people that don't have any experience in fighting and not totally fighters but the fight is boxing and not MMA and Ben Askren is known with his ground moves so there might be a light that Paul can make another win but I am doubting it and I think I will go with Ben Askren that simply has experience with fighters.

[dunfida]

After that Mayweather and Mcgregor fight, we see such things are becoming popular to the people and not only that, some basketball players have joined the trend as well but as we can see it's not really fit for them. Whatever sports you are good at, you should stick with that so that you will improve more or gather more experience to teach it to the youngster. Don't follow the steps with these guys, they are just simply making stupid things with their unwise decisions.

For the sake of money then you would definitely see these kind of cross-sports kind of fights even though its clear as day on whose gonna win but these fighters or players will swallow up their
pride for the sake of profit or revenue making or as long they would able to fill out their pockets.This isnt totally can be blamed out on the fighters itself but also with the management
as they wouldnt really be having any options for them to refuse on whats been mandated.Creating hype and making cross sport matches to the believe that they can make out much
just like into those past similar events but this do actually becomes the trend as of the moment which it turns out that this isnt already a sports anymore but rather they do showing off
some serious business talks.

[AmoreJaz]

After that Mayweather and Mcgregor fight, we see such things are becoming popular to the people and not only that, some basketball players have joined the trend as well but as we can see it's not really fit for them. Whatever sports you are good at, you should stick with that so that you will improve more or gather more experience to teach it to the youngster. Don't follow the steps with these guys, they are just simply making stupid things with their unwise decisions.

For the sake of money then you would definitely see these kind of cross-sports kind of fights even though its clear as day on whose gonna win but these fighters or players will swallow up their
pride for the sake of profit or revenue making or as long they would able to fill out their pockets.This isnt totally can be blamed out on the fighters itself but also with the management
as they wouldnt really be having any options for them to refuse on whats been mandated.Creating hype and making cross sport matches to the believe that they can make out much
just like into those past similar events but this do actually becomes the trend as of the moment which it turns out that this isnt already a sports anymore but rather they do showing off
some serious business talks.

promoters are making this match to happen. so yeah, guess, they are seeing numbers here. that's why they are pushing thru this kind of fight. they need to earn a living also because of this pandemic. now, the popularity is now taken into consideration to sell the fight. maybe after this pandemic, we will see more serious matches.
it seems that boxing industry is going into the popularity contest for the time being. up to you if you will buy this fight or not anyway.

[Darker45]

Ben, if Jake Paul sends you to sleep, you will be humiliated till the end of your life.

Not sure what Ben Askren is thinking but the risk of getting humiliated once again is a possibility.

In every fight, there is always the possibility of ending up humiliated. That is a fact that every fighter has to deal with. But I guess it is not much of a big deal if you are a real fighter. But if you are a loudmouth, a showboat, a fighter who heavily swears as if there is zero possibility of you losing, then that humiliation is indeed something to be really ashamed of.

Ben Askren has gone through humiliations. I guess that is something he's not afraid of facing once again. If only for the sake of money. But no worries, his opponent is no boxer himself.

[TravelMug]

I wonder why are there more and more UFC or even ex UFC fighters being fixed for a boxing match. I guess most fights are all about money, anything for show and money, amateur fighting in a pro boxing league. I guess boxing and MMA promoters are running out of ways to earn, that is why they are fixing a lot of cross-over match up.

Well if their career is over like in Ben Askren, then you have to find a way to make money. And this is the best way for him, fighting a Youtube sensation, who really know to create hype in social media so it make sense for Askren to ride with Jake Paul.

And for all we know this might be stage, Jake Paul winning the first fight and then Askren asking for a immediate rematch, win-win for this two, more money in the table.