Sign Of The Times: Jake Paul Thinks He “Could Be Fighting Against Canelo.”

By: Sean Crose

A journalist’s job is to report the information. To be extra particular, a boxing journalist’s job is to report the information in and across the sport of boxing. Therefore, the countless articles, movies and podcasts devoted to the Paul brothers, notably youthful brother Jake Paul. Prefer it or not, Jake Paul is information. In reality, he stands out as the most well-known boxer on this planet right now. You in all probability preferred studying these phrases about as a lot as I loved writing them. Nonetheless, Paul has made himself worthy of debate by any goal measure.

“I simply wish to proceed to be probably the most disruptive boxer within the historical past of the game,” Paul advised TMZ just a few days in the past. To date, he’s succeeding wildly. “I feel I may very well be combating in opposition to Canelo Alvarez for the WBC or the WBO championship belt,” he went on so as to add. “Why not, child?” Why not, certainly? Properly, for starters, it’s uncertain Canelo will enable Paul to face him until Paul in some way legitimately climbs the game’s rankings. Different title fighters, nonetheless, would  undoubtedly like to get Paul within the ring.

After all, Paul is at the moment set to battle former UFC star Tyron Woodley in a boxing match. Ought to Woodley win convincingly, that may put a cease to a lot of the Paul hype. Unusual, although, how Paul isn’t dealing with UFC stars just like the Diaz brothers, who’ve very robust boxing backgrounds (they’ve labored with Andre Ward, for Pete’s sake). There’s little doubt Paul takes boxing critically, however nobody ought to faux he’s trying to scale any ladders. That is in the end a celeb endeavor. And, within the right here and now, that’s apparently sufficient.

The opposite day, a buddy’s son requested me if I had watched a current card that went down between completely different social media stars. I advised him I hadn’t, and he subsequently knowledgeable me that each one ten years of him completely beloved it. That’s when it hit me – boxing has basically turn out to be the web ages’ “Battle of the Community Stars.” Nothing extra. Solely, in fact, it’s much more for these of us who love and take it critically. Novelty fights lose their novelty after they rule supreme over all the sport. The excellent news is that the possibilities are nonetheless very excessive that that is all only a fad, that it’ll fade away into the ether of popular culture quickly sufficient.

After which boxing will as soon as extra must depend on itself to usher in public curiosity.