Jake Paul has implored Tommy Fury to take on "real fighters" instead of facing journeyman boxers as the pair's feud appears to be reigniting.
The YouTuber-turned-boxer is, ironically, often criticised for his opponent choice, with many claiming that even after this weekend's fight with Anderson Silva he won't have faced a "real boxer". However, he values the challenges of Tyron Woodley and Silva higher than any of Fury's eight opponents, despite them all having had multiple boxing fights.
Anthony Taylor, who Paul's team hand-picked for the Brit's American debut, is the only opponent of Fury's who had less than two professional bouts, although he did hold a 7-5 MMA record. But Paul feels that the calibre of fighter he is facing isn't good enough at this stage of career, and plans to prove his inadequacy when the pair square off in the ring next year.
"I don't know what he's doing," Paul said of Fury's latest bout with 5-2 American Paul Bamba, who started boxing professionally last year. "You're not going to get better fighting people who are trash workers and tomato cans and aren't boxers.
"You know that he keeps finding the local employee who thinks they're a boxer and going in there with them. And to him, he might be happy to do that for the rest of his life and think he's cool and think he's great. That will stroke his ego and his girlfriend [model Molly Mae Hague] will think he's a really good boxer. Maybe he'll never go up against a real fighter and he'll just play boxing his whole life."
Fury's last outing was an appearance on his brother Tyson's world heavyweight title undercard at Wembley Stadium in which he brutalised 10-1 Daniel Bocianski. He is currently preparing to face 5-2 American Bamba on the undercard of Floyd Mayweather vs Deji in Dubai.
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Paul is currently in Arizona where he will face Anderson Silva on Saturday in his sixth professional fight, and just his seventh in any rank. And he is keen to face Fury next year, assuming the Brit's team can get the money together to stage the event after two failed attempts to make it happen under his Most Valuable Promotions banner in America.
"There's no real game being played," Paul said. "I do think he got scared the second time, and maybe he'll get scared again but it is what it is. I just want to make him pay for that and I think where things are going now we've given up on trying to put on an event with him.
"I think his team is doing it now, they're the ones working on it and they're the ones taking all of the risk if Tommy pulls out. So financially I would be protected in that case and I would just love to see this kid who's a delusional pretty boy that talks a lot of s*** asleep on the canvas."
