Jake Paul finally got me to care about his Cedric Doumbe fight on Christmas Eve in Dubai.
That’s because the self-described “YouTuber” has promised to quit boxing and hang up the gloves with a loss to the 34-year-old Frenchman, who hasn’t completed in over two years.
“If he wins, I will hang up the gloves and call it a day, but if he loses, the man who calls himself ‘The Best’ just got beat up by a YouTuber with a titanium jaw,” Paul said on YouTube. “So Cedric Doumbe, I, Jake Joseph Paul, will knock
you out, embarrass you and defeat you on Christmas Eve. This fight is not going the distance and someone is getting put to sleep in the Middle East and it’s not Santa.”
Paul, 29, nearly retired from boxing after having his jaw smashed to pieces by Anthony Joshua.
“Honestly, after Joshua, part of me thought about quitting, never boxing again,” Paul admitted. “He broke my jaw. I have two titanium plates in my mouth. I couldn’t eat for weeks. I couldn’t even talk or smile at my bank statements. I was just laying in bed night after night, asking myself, ‘Do I still want to do this?’ Yeah, obviously I still want to do this. I ain’t no bitch.”
He’s not a bitch, but is he a legitimate boxer? We may find out (one way or the other) on Christmas Eve.
