{"id":395795,"date":"2021-09-29T08:08:22","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T15:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=395795"},"modified":"2021-09-29T08:08:22","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T15:08:22","slug":"jake-paul-absolutely-has-a-chance-of-beating-conor-mcgregor-in-boxing-says-javier-mendez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/jake-paul-absolutely-has-a-chance-of-beating-conor-mcgregor-in-boxing-says-javier-mendez\/","title":{"rendered":"Jake Paul &#8220;absolutely has a chance&#8221; of beating Conor McGregor in boxing, says Javier Mendez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul &#8220;absolutely has a chance&#8221; of beating Conor McGregor in a boxing match, says rival coach Javier Mendez.<\/p>\n<p>Mendez is the longtime coach of former UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomeov and other top fighters at American Kickboxing Academy, so he knows combat sports inside out. In a recent interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.betway.com\/boxing\/khabib-trainer-javier-mendez-jake-paul-shouldn-t-fear-mcgregor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BetWay<\/a>, Mendez was asked how he believes a boxing match between McGregor and Paul would go. According to the longtime coach, he believes Paul has several advantages in a boxing match against McGregor, and he explained why.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJake (Paul) has got so many advantages on Conor. Size being one of the big major ones, and the fact that he\u2019s been boxing for three-plus years with really good boxing professionals that know what they\u2019re doing. So no, he shouldn\u2019t have to fear Conor whatsoever,&#8221; Mendez said. &#8220;Instead, he has to fear people like Canelo (Alvarez). He would just smash him in one round, it would be embarrassing. He hasn\u2019t got a chance against those kinds of guys, he really should stay away from him &#8211; but against Conor, absolutely he has a chance. Looking at the two, Jake\u2019s got big advantages in size and power. Yes, he doesn\u2019t have fight experience but he\u2019s been strictly just boxing for a long time now. Conor\u2019s not been strictly boxing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Paul is one of the biggest stars in combat sports right now and so is McGregor, so as crazy as this fight sounds on paper, there are reasons why it could happen when McGregor returns from his broken leg. At the same time, Paul has plenty of other options for him to face in the meantime, such as a fight against fellow boxing prospect Tommy Fury.<\/p>\n<p>Do you agree with Javier Mendez that <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/jake-paul-releases-cringey-video-responding-to-tyron-woodley-getting-the-i-love-jake-paul-tattoo\/\">Jake Paul<\/a> has a chance of beating Conor McGregor in a boxing match?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul &#8220;absolutely has a chance&#8221; of beating Conor McGregor in a boxing match, says rival coach Javier Mendez. Mendez is the longtime coach of former UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomeov and other top fighters at American Kickboxing Academy, so he knows combat sports inside out. In a recent interview with BetWay, Mendez was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54474,"featured_media":369807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10107,10089,65043,39610],"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>Jake Paul &quot;absolutely has a chance&quot; of beating Conor McGregor in boxing, says Javier Mendez | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul &quot;absolutely has a chance&quot; of beating Conor McGregor in a boxing match, says rival coach Javier Mendez.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/jake-paul-absolutely-has-a-chance-of-beating-conor-mcgregor-in-boxing-says-javier-mendez\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Jake Paul &quot;absolutely has a chance&quot; 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