{"id":434461,"date":"2022-02-24T06:41:37","date_gmt":"2022-02-24T14:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=434461"},"modified":"2022-02-24T06:41:37","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T14:41:37","slug":"israel-adesanya-explains-how-jake-paul-assisted-in-securing-his-new-ufc-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/israel-adesanya-explains-how-jake-paul-assisted-in-securing-his-new-ufc-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Adesanya explains how Jake Paul assisted in securing his new UFC contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya has explained the role Jake Paul has played in the discussion regarding fighter pay.<\/p>\n<p>It was recently announced that Israel Adesanya has <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/israel-adesanya-signs-new-ufc-deal-making-him-one-of-the-top-paid-athletes\/\">signed a new contract<\/a> with the Ultimate Fighting Championship. The lucrative new deal is set to make him one of the highest-paid earners in the promotion, which should come as no surprise given his position as one of the pound-for-pound best fighters in the sport.<\/p>\n<p>Someone who enjoys the subject of high-level fighters getting paid a lot of money is none other than Jake Paul. The YouTuber-turned-boxer has been on the case in recent months by constantly going after UFC president Dana White, suggesting that they aren&#8217;t properly compensating their roster in comparison to the kind of figures we see in boxing.<\/p>\n<p>White has hit back at him, but Adesanya admitted during a recent interview with talkSPORT that he isn&#8217;t opposed to what &#8220;The Problem Child&#8221; is doing.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"UFC Middleweight Champion Israel Adesanya talks Robert Whittaker, Jared Cannonier &amp; MORE!!\ud83d\udd25\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PBSrKQeFrCI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI think Jake Paul was the right guy to (challenge Dana White) at the time,\u201d Adesanya said. \u201cHe was one of the guys to get this conversation going that Francis jumped in. You have me even now speaking about it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cJust because I got my new deal doesn\u2019t mean I just shut up about it. I\u2019m not wrong in saying I think everyone should be getting paid equally for their work. I get paid quite nicely, and I\u2019m still greedy. This is the game we\u2019re in, in prizefighting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>Quotes via <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/2022\/02\/ufc-news-israel-adesanya-talks-jake-paul-effect-fighter-pay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMA Junkie<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p>This conversation, as controversial as it may be to some, isn&#8217;t going to stop for quite some time.<\/p>\n<p><em>Do you think Israel Adesanya is right about Jake Paul? What changes, if any, will we see to fighter pay in the next couple of years? Let us know your thoughts down in the comments, BJPENN Nation!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya has explained the role Jake Paul has played in the discussion regarding fighter pay. It was recently announced that Israel Adesanya has signed a new contract with the Ultimate Fighting Championship. The lucrative new deal is set to make him one of the highest-paid earners in the promotion, which should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54478,"featured_media":387878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[39449,65043,39610],"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>Israel Adesanya explains how Jake Paul assisted in securing his new UFC contract | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya has explained the role Jake Paul has played in the discussion regarding fighter pay.\" \/>\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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