{"id":40860,"date":"2023-12-20T08:20:35","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T08:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caffeprada.com\/?p=40860"},"modified":"2023-12-20T08:20:35","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T08:20:35","slug":"boxing-star-dmitry-bivol-shovels-praise-on-jake-paul-i-respect-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caffeprada.com\/celebrities-news\/boxing-star-dmitry-bivol-shovels-praise-on-jake-paul-i-respect-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing Star Dmitry Bivol Shovels Praise On Jake Paul, 'I Respect Him'"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dmitry Bivol <\/strong>— one of the biggest names in boxing — is giving Jake Paul<\/strong> his flowers … telling TMZ Sports<\/strong> the internet star’s fighting career is impressing the hell out of him.<\/p>\n “To be honest,” Bivol told us just days after Paul scored a violent knockout win over Andre August<\/strong>, “I like that the guy who’s not boxer, he really loves the sport.”<\/p>\n “We see he’s training hard. I respect him for this.”<\/p>\n Of course, when Paul first got into the boxing biz, many saw it as a gimmick — as he was fighting social media personalities and former professional athletes. In fact, Canelo Alvarez<\/strong> said back in 2020 that Jake and his brother, Logan<\/strong>, were displaying a “lack of respect” for the fight game with their choices of matchups (an opinion he later changed his tune on<\/strong>).<\/p>\n But, Bivol made it clear to us he’s loving what he’s seeing from Jake — saying the 26-year-old is taking all the right steps when it comes to being a real-deal pugilist.<\/p>\n “He’s going and doing his fighting,” said Bivol, who beat Canelo back in May 2022. “He’s not just like, ‘I will beat everyone’ and think like this.”<\/p>\n Paul is currently 8-1 in his career with five knockouts — and he’s made such an impact on the sport through his nine fights so far, Team USA boxing just partnered with him<\/strong> so he can help promote Olympic fighters as they get ready for the Paris Games in 2024.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n As for Bivol’s own boxing career — he’s got a big tilt coming up this weekend against Lyndon Arthur<\/strong> on DAZN’s Day of Reckoning card … but, if he gets by that matchup, don’t expect him to get in between the ropes with Paul anytime soon.<\/p>\n “My goal is not about money now,” he said of a potential fight with the YouTuber-turned-fighter. “My goal is about belts.”<\/p>\n Source: Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dmitry Bivol — one of the biggest names in boxing — is giving Jake Paul his flowers … telling TMZ Sports the internet star’s fighting career is impressing the hell … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n