Jake Paul has threatened to file lawsuits against anybody defaming him and the legitimacy of his boxing career but two of his biggest critics aren’t backing down from taking shots at him.
Following a lopsided win over Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. this past weekend, Paul and his business partner Nakisa Bidarian said they are ready to use the legal system to go after detractors alleging that his fights are fixed. The declaration came after veteran talk show host Piers Morgan blasted Paul’s fight with Chavez and said that the YouTuber turned fighter is “killing boxing with this boring staged bullsh*t against older fighters way past their prime.”
“After years of letting it slide as just ‘haters being haters,’ I have asked my team to vigorously go after anyone who makes up lies about my boxing career,” Paul wrote in response on Twitter. “Expect to get served you pigs.”
Hours later, Morgan addressed Paul’s legal threats alongside Dillon Danis, who is actually embroiled in a lawsuit with Logan Paul’s fiancée Nina Agdal after he posted dozens of photos of her while building towards his boxing match with Jake’s older brother.
“What he didn’t like was me casting any kind of suspicious aspersion over the quality of his opponents, even though everyone in the fight game knows, any kind of fight game, that he’s deliberately selecting fights that are not much of a test for him,” Morgan said on his YouTube channel. “If he fought Mike Tyson when Tyson was 22, that’s one thing. Fighting Mike Tyson when he’s 58 and you’re half his age is clearly set up for you to not get knocked out.
“I don’t see how he can possibly contradict the fact that he clearly stages fights that are to his obvious benefit. He’s choosing opponents who are not at their peak or way past their peak. They’re either much older or from other disciplines or whatever. He is staging events that are entertaining on a certain level, he’s making a ton of money but the idea that these are doing anything but damaging the integrity of boxing, I think is for the birds.”
Morgan using the word “stages” is likely what’s getting under Paul’s skin because that makes it sound like he’s setting up fixed fights meant for him to win.
Instead, Morgan insists he’s just talking about Paul handpicking easier fights that almost guarantee he’ll win because he’s not facing anybody that presents a legitimate challenge. During the interview, Morgan rattled off the names of Paul’s opponents and noted that fighters like Tyron Woodley, Nate Diaz and others came from MMA while journeyman fighters such as Andre August and Ryan Bourland were no threat whatsoever.
“I think he’s ruining the sport,” Danis said about Paul. “100 percent ruining the sport. I think people are starting to catch on though. It seemed this one no one was really talking about, no one really cared about. I feel like people are just like this is bullshit now. He doesn’t have the kind of shit he had before when he was fighting the MMA guys like ‘oh let’s see if he can win because he’s a Disney star.’
“I think right now we’re just giving him the platform he doesn’t have anymore. You can see by his socials that no one really cares about his fights. I think he’s ruining the sport.”
Danis stopped short of saying that Paul was fixing fights to ensure he would win but much like Morgan, he vehemently criticized the 28-year-old boxer for his selection of opponents.
He said look no further than Chavez, who entered the fight at 39 years old with two of his past three fights also coming against MMA fighters including a loss to Anderson Silva — an opponent Paul already bested back in 2022.
“I don’t want to say it’s rigged because we’re going to get sued here,” Danis said. “I just think Jake is that bad. I don’t think Jake even has the ability to knock out Chavez Jr., who just came out of rehab and has been an addict his whole life, who’s quit on the stool multiple times, he’s a terrible fighter. They picked him because they thought they could probably knock him out and then [Jake] could be like ‘Canelo [Alvarez] didn’t knock him out so I knocked him out.’ That was his whole thinking and I think the fight was harder for him.
“In the last couple of rounds, he was getting pieced up. I didn’t really watch the fight because I was watching UFC, what real men watch, and I just saw a couple of highlights at the end that he was getting pieced up. The steroids are starting to get to him. He was getting tired.”
Morgan didn’t sound too stressed about facing potential legal action from Paul and his team but more than anything, he just wanted “The Problem Child” to confess that he’s not risking much with the level of competition he’s facing these days.
Morgan even joked that given the sudden rivalry between them that Paul might choose him as a future opponent.
“I would like him to just accept and acknowledge that he’s not a real boxer having really challenging fights,” Morgan said. “What he is, is somebody who’s latched onto turning boxing into a form of entertainment. That’s what it is. He’s making a ton of money. He should just be more open about it.
“I’m in his right age wheelhouse. I’m 60 years old with zero professional boxing experience. So I’m pretty much his perfect target for his next fight.”
