Jake Paul won’t hold his breath for a reply from UFC president Dana White.
The YouTube star turned professional boxer recently added more fuel to his public feud with White when he released a diss track bashing the UFC’s fighter pay. This is not the first time Paul has created attention attacking White and the UFC. The two figures have been publicly taking shots at each other for more than a year.
White has fired back on social media to Paul in the past, but Paul thinks those days are over and doesn’t expect a reply to his diss track.
“I think he learned his lesson when he responded a couple of weeks ago while I was on vacation,” Paul said on The MMA Hour. “He responded with a little selfie video and he was red as a crab and clearly pissed off and just made himself … first of all, it brought more attention to everything and he made himself look really stupid. I think he’s now being advised to not respond.”
Paul thinks his music video made a big statement in the combat sports industry. He doesn’t think there’s a way to come back from some of the comments he made on the track, including one about Jorge Masvidal.
“It silenced everyone,” Paul said. “What can they say? The first line is, ‘First of all, Masvidal you ain’t rich. Fifty fights for $5 million, that ain’t sh*t.’ What’s he going to say? What can anyone say. I think it shut people up, and there’s a lot of important messages in there and it spoke for itself.”
According to Paul, the YouTube earnings from the diss track will go toward funds helping fighters. Paul was broad in his statement and didn’t provide any specifics with whom he’ll work for to support fighters and fighter pay.
“We’re just putting it to any funds or foundations that help fighters and donating it to different various organizations,” Paul said. “We actually fractionalized the music video as an NFT. We’re fractionalizing the video as an NFT, so people can donate and own a piece of the music video. And the donations are, again, going to various organizations that help fighters in any which way.”
