Jake Paul bounces back from 1st loss with unanimous decision win over Nate Diaz #jakepaul #fight - Video

Jake Paul bounces back from 1st loss with unanimous decision win over Nate Diaz,

Jake Paul is still "The Problem Child." For older MMA fighters, at least.

The social media influencer-turned-boxer scored a unanimous decision win (97-92, 98-91, 98-91) over UFC veteran Nate Diaz on Saturday, improving his professional boxing record to 7-1 (0-1 against professional boxers).

The fight had all the hallmarks of a Jake Paul fight. Weeks of attention and worries if this is really the future of boxing. An opponent known for something other than boxing prowess. Plenty of celebrities. Noise, endless noise. Nothing to be learned, at least about Paul's future as a real boxer.

We certainly learned the same lesson about his prowess as a promoter, selling a fight against an opponent 12 years older than him with months of experience in the sport. The big sell here was that Diaz was the one who stopped another loudmouth in the UFC, Conor McGregor, with his legendary submission win in 2016. Paul, and the sport of boxing, proved to be a different sort of challenge.

The fight looked nearly over in the first round, when Paul hurt Diaz and unleashed a series of blows over the next minute that put the fighter on his back foot. Diaz recovered enough to stifle the threat, but the match looked a lot like Paul's other victories, with his chosen Big MMA Name looking hesitant and slow.

Diaz started figuring out his defense in the second round, but never landed a punch that seemed to hurt Paul. Those finally started coming in the fourth, when Diaz got aggressive with a flurry of hooks that wouldn't have looked out of place in an MMA match.


Diaz started having some fun in the fifth, faking like a body blow hurt him, but Paul struck back with a knockdown and spent the rest of the round hitting Diaz like in the first round. The next couple rounds were somewhat even before Diaz really seemed to do some damage in the eighth and ninth, rousing the crowd. Paul's blows seemed to stop hurting him.

The antics continued into the final round, with Diaz feigning fatigue and damage, or at least some of it. Paul, who had never fought a match longer than eight rounds, started to look gassed, while Diaz just looked amused.

The momentum belonged to Diaz at the end, as many predicted, but Paul's control in the first several rounds made for an uncontroversial decision.

Where does Paul go from here? Who knows. He tried fighting a person with "boxer" in the first sentence of their Wikipedia page and was rewarded with his first loss to Tommy Fury. Maybe there's a rematch to be made against Fury, maybe there's another MMA fighter of at least moderate fame looking for a payday.

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