Jake Paul Receives Open Invitation From Bellator

Jake Paul knows how to make a lot of noise for himself and he now has an open invitation to get his hands dirty in the MMA ring.

Scott Coker is certainly open to doing business with Jake Paul, but why wouldn’t he want to bring in the bona fide cash cow.

As Paul and Dana White continue going at it, Scott Coker is willing to play nice. He recently spoke to MMA Junkie and left things wide open in case the Problem Child is willing to work something out.

“I always said, ‘Look, these guys are real athletes, and they’re young, they work hard, they’re grinding it out. They’re putting in the work. You can’t take that away from them, and they’re getting better and better and better. What you saw with Woodley, that’s a lot of hard work to get to that point. I’ve never seen Woodley get knocked out like that, right? And so, is it just boxing? Yes. So, I always said, ‘Look, man, don’t underestimate these guys,’ and this was like a year-and-a-half ago.”

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“If you want to come into MMA, we would gladly do it. Think about this: He’s not saying, ‘I’m going to go train here. I’m going to go train there.’ He’s going to come to one of the best gyms in the planet, where Khabib is, where Daniel Cormier is still training, where Cain Velasquez is teaching there now, and he’s going to go into an environment that he is going to flourish, and he has a wrestling background already. He has great striking, obviously. You’ve seen it, and so this guy is just going to get better and better and better. The days of him fighting basketball players or whatever, those days are over.

“He wants to do it. The only thing I will say is, my understanding is he wants to get 10 fights into boxing, and then after that come over to mixed martial arts. I know certain people feel a certain way, but I tell you, don’t underestimate these guys because when they have their minds made up, it just seems like that they’re able to fulfill their destiny, and so to me, it’s something that if they want to make it happen, we would love to do something with them and put them in some big fights and really test them out.”

Jake Paul talks a lot of game and he has expressed interest in MMA before. His real money is in the boxing ring and he realizes that as well. That doesn’t make this offer any less interesting.

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