{"id":394646,"date":"2021-09-17T05:41:45","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T12:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=394646"},"modified":"2021-09-17T05:41:45","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T12:41:45","slug":"dana-white-explains-why-jake-paul-should-fight-anderson-silva-next-not-jorge-masvidal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/dana-white-explains-why-jake-paul-should-fight-anderson-silva-next-not-jorge-masvidal\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana White explains why Jake Paul should fight Anderson Silva next, not Jorge Masvidal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC president Dana White explained why YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul should fight Anderson Silva next, and not Jorge Masvidal.<\/p>\n<p>White and Paul have not seen eye to eye, especially in regards to the topic of fighter pay, as Paul has said numerous negative comments to White regarding what he pays UFC fighters. After recently beating former UFC champion Tyron Woodley, Paul is now busy trying to figure out who his next opponent will be. He recently came out and called out Masvidal for a fight, <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/dana-white-shoots-down-potential-jorge-masvidal-vs-jake-paul-fight-claims-the-youtuber-is-scared-to-callout-anderson-silva\/\">but White blocked that opportunity since &#8220;Gamebred&#8221; is under contract with the UFC<\/a>. Instead, White suggested that Paul take on the UFC legend Silva instead.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailytelegraph.com.au\/sport\/ufc\/ufc-president-dana-white-opens-up-on-whittakeradesanya-conor-mcgregor-and-celebrity-boxer-jake-paul\/news-story\/4a9c842a9bc00c66b1120e3d5b4a5b64\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Daily Telegraph<\/a> in a recent interview, White explained why he believes Silva is the right fight for Paul at this current time, not Masvidal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMasvidal\u2019s 170 pounds. He likes 170-pounders. Go fight somebody your own size. Anderson Silva\u2019s not under contract, he\u2019s 46 years old &#8211; that\u2019s the age group you love to fight &#8211; and he\u2019s your size and he\u2019s actually winning fights. If you look at Jake Paul\u2019s history, Jake Paul either fights basketball players who have never fought or he wants to fight washed up older guys who haven\u2019t won fights in years. Anderson Silva has actually been boxing, he\u2019s won some fights, he\u2019s 46 years old, and he\u2019s in your weight class. There you go. That\u2019s a no-brainer. Fight Anderson Silva,&#8221; White said (h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2021\/9\/17\/22679136\/dana-white-shuts-down-jake-pauls-wager-to-fight-jorge-masvidal-go-fight-somebody-your-own-size\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMAFighting<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFans would actually probably like to see that fight. It\u2019s actually a viable fight that would actually sell some pay-per-views. Cause no matter what they tell ya, he ain\u2019t f*cking selling pay-per-views. The brother did. Logan, when he fought Floyd Mayweather, they sold some PPVs. Triller ain\u2019t selling jack sh*t. Those guys couldn\u2019t f*cking give away pay-per-views. If Jake Paul goes out and actually fights Anderson Silva, it\u2019s a viable fight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Do you agree with Dana White that Jake Paul should fight Anderson Silva next?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC president Dana White explained why YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul should fight Anderson Silva next, and not Jorge Masvidal. White and Paul have not seen eye to eye, especially in regards to the topic of fighter pay, as Paul has said numerous negative comments to White regarding what he pays UFC fighters. After recently beating former [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54477,"featured_media":370382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10112,65043,10515,39610],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Dana White explains why Jake Paul should fight Anderson Silva next, not Jorge Masvidal | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"UFC president Dana White explained why YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul should fight Anderson Silva next, and not Jorge Masvidal.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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