Hasim Rahman Jr has posted a 10-second clip of a sparring session with Jake Paul in which the YouTube star can be seen 'running' from his rival.
Rahman Jr has launched a campaign to "expose" Paul after he cancelled their planned fight at seven days' notice following a row over the weight limit. Rahman began by weighing in in a New York gym on Friday afternoon, scaling just over the 205lb limit at 206.6lb.
The heavyweight missed weight, but argued he would have happily forfeited 25 per cent of his purse as stipulated in the contract, in order to ensure the fight went ahead. Rahman Jr the posted his sparring video on social media and said: "Never in the history of boxing has someone pulled out a fight a week in advance over weight issues. I tried to tell y’all, he’s a runner he’s a track star."
The sparring video is likely to be two years old when Paul had fought just once as a professional, knocking out fellow YouTuber AnEsonGib. Paul was preparing for his second fight, against retired NBA star Nate Robinson, when he sparred Rahman Jr.
Paul went on to KO Robinson before beating former UFC stars Ben Askren and Tyron Woodley. The 25-year-old has undoubtedly improved over the last two years but admits Rahman Jr had the better of their sessions.
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"It was close, it was a war," Paul said of the spar on The MMA Hour. "That was right when I started fighting, before the Nate Robinson fight. He was way more experienced than I was at the time, so if anything he got the better of me, but it doesn't matter to admit that because I know what I'm capable of now and I know i'm going to be able to come in and beat him.
"Over the past two years we'll see who became the better fighter. He was saying 'you'll never be a professional fighter', all of my critics [say that] and it's great motivation for me. I use it against them and it fuels me in the gym. Now two years later, we will actually get to see who the professional fighter is."
