Paul's firey challenge after changeroom scuffle

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Following 1 of the champion wins of his blooming vocation against Anderson Silva, Jake Paul has called retired 1 of the biggest names successful warring for his adjacent bout.

Nate Diaz was successful attendance, and was progressive successful a kerfuffle with members of Paul's entourage successful the hr earlier his combat with Silva.

Witnesses said punches and drinks were thrown, earlier Diaz was kicked retired of the room.

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And Paul, who is present 6-0, wants to beryllium the 1 to propulsion the punches successful the ring.

"This is conscionable the commencement baby. I privation Nate Diaz, who's a bitch. He tried to travel into my locker room. He tried to origin immoderate shit," helium said aft defeating Silva by a unanimous decision.

"And past helium ever leaves the f---ing arena. So Nate Diaz, halt being a bitch and combat me."

And if not Diaz?

"And Canelo (Alvarez), you too. You guys said 'oh, you can't bushed a fable similar Anderson Silva', good I conscionable did."

Paul said fighting Silva was a infinitesimal much than a decennary successful the making.

Paul met Silva erstwhile helium was conscionable 13, and it near the Ohio autochthonal feeling inspired.

"He was my idol increasing up. He inspired maine to beryllium great. He was the archetypal personage I ever met.

"Without him, we wouldn't person had a combat this year. He's a pugnacious mo-fo, for existent a legend."

Going into the combat with a 5-0 record, Paul was criticised for taking connected Silva, who has lone precocious started boxing aft a decorated vocation successful MMA, and not idiosyncratic with amended boxing credentials. Silva is besides 22 years his senior.

But nary of that seemed to substance erstwhile they got successful the ring. Neither combatant was capable to truly get the precocious manus until Paul scored the lone knockdown aboriginal successful the eighth and last round.

Silva was capable to get backmost up, but it was the cardinal infinitesimal successful the fight. The judges awarded the combat to Paul successful a unanimous decision.

Paul said the information the 47-year-old Silva took the combat was a measurement of his character.

"I person thing but respect for him. And this conscionable goes to amusement that anyone watching astatine home, kids adjacent if you're 40 oregon 45 years old, pursuit your dreams. It's ne'er excessively late.

"I started boxing 2 and a fractional years agone arsenic a pro and conscionable bushed 1 of the top ever due to the fact that I'm obsessed with this.

"I spell truthful hard each azygous day, thing tin get my way. No distractions. And if you're watching astatine location doesn't substance if you person talent. It doesn't substance ... you conscionable got to enactment your arse off, and you tin execute your dreams.

"I met this (man) erstwhile I was 13 years old. So if you're 13 years aged watching this, spell f---ing get it and don't don't fto anyone archer you can't bash something.

"They're ever going to find thing to accidental … if I were walking connected water, radical would accidental that I can't swim.

"There's ever going to beryllium haters. There's ever going to beryllium critics. And that conscionable is … mundane portion of life. If you're doing thing and being successful, don't interest astir that shit."

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