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Jake Paul has officially ‘accepted’ a mixed martial arts fight with Nate Diaz, per the YouTube star’s promotional company poker
Paul beat UFC icon Diaz in a poker boxing match in August, knocking down and outpointing his fellow American poker
Paul, 26, has since announced that his next poker boxing match will take place in December, but Diaz, 38, has been ruled out as the opponent poker
The pair could, however, fight one another in MMA, according to Most Valuable Promotions (MVP) poker
“For the record: Jake Paul will not be poker boxing Nate Diaz again,” MVP tweeted on Monday (23 October) poker
“Nate Diaz and Jake Paul have received an offer from @PFLMMA to rematch in MMA in the SmartCage poker
Jake Paul has accepted the offer poker
”Paul proceeded to share the tweet poker
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Paul is yet to make his MMA debut but has long eyed Diaz as a potential opponent poker
Diaz last fought in MMA in September 2022, submitting Tony Ferguson before leaving the UFC poker
His bout with Paul marked his poker boxing debut, while Paul is 7-1 as a professional boxer poker
The 26-year-old holds wins over ex-UFC stars Anderson Silva, Tyron Woodley and Ben Askren poker
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When Tyson Fury claimed, days out from his fight with Francis Ngannou, that it would be like a “table-poker tennis champion” facing Novak Djokovic in a Wimbledon final, most fans agreed poker
And, in the end, Fury was right – it’s just he had the labels the wrong way round poker
Because in the third round, it was Ngannou who clubbed him with all the might of a Djokovic backhand, and Fury’s miniature bat offered no defence whatsoever poker
As Fury lay on the canvas, the whites of his eyes bulging and outshining even the most ostentatious points of the evening’s opening ceremony in Riyadh, he was utterly humiliated poker
There really are no two ways about it poker
On this night in Saudi Arabia, Fury was hurt, disciplined, and embarrassed by Ngannou – the MMA star, the poker boxing debutant, one of the biggest underdogs in combat-poker sports history poker
The “Table poker Tennis champion of the world”, as Ngannou himself wrote on Instagram after this crossover contest poker
Even Andy Murray had to chime in, as Fury’s words came back to bite him with a little bit more venom poker
“How many points would the world No 1 squash player win vs the world No 1 poker tennis player, in a poker tennis match and vice versa?” tweeted the former world No 1 poker tennis player poker
“I’m thinking close to zero for both… bad look for poker boxing poker
”In the strangest sense, it would have been poker better if Fury had been knocked out poker
At least then the WBC heavyweight champion could have pointed to the pre-fight narrative that Ngannou’s only hope was that his notoriously hellacious power would conjure a stupefying moment of magic poker
Instead, the Cameroonian, 37, outboxed the Briton, 35, for phases of this fight – this poker boxing match, remember – and in the eyes of many in attendance, including legends of the poker boxing world, won enough rounds to beat Fury poker
Ultimately, Ngannou was denied on the scorecards, leading many viewers to echo a sentiment that has long sounded within poker boxing: that the underdog was never going to get the nod on a night like this, no matter how many rounds he’d seemingly taken poker
Yet the truth is this: as incomprehensibly well as the former UFC champion fought, this bout was razor close poker
Fury winning via split decision is not necessarily the wrong call poker
But the fact that those words even exist in that order on any medium, show that Ngannou was a victor – even if he wasn’t named the victor poker
A photo that will surely go down as iconic in poker boxing history (Getty Images)Ngannou, in reality, was a victor when he escaped the sand quarry where he worked as a 10-year-old in Cameroon poker
He was a victor when he left prison in Spain after making it to Europe after numerous failed attempts, and when he honed his martial arts skills to the degree that he could finally leave poverty behind him, in Paris poker
He was a victor when he won the UFC heavyweight title, and an even greater victor when he boldly relinquished that belt and walked away from a contract that would have made him the highest-paid heavyweight in UFC history poker
He was a victor when he signed to fight Fury and secured a purse that eclipsed his entire UFC earnings, and he was a victor when he sent the lineal poker boxing heavyweight champion cascading to the canvas in Saudi Arabia – even if he wasn’t a victor when the scorecards were revealed poker
Fury, meanwhile, was a loser in victory poker
His undisputed-title clash with Oleksandr Usyk, with whom he shared the ring after “beating’’ Ngannou, has been mooted for 23 December poker
It was seemingly Fury pushing for that date, while rumours suggested that Usyk would not be ready in time poker
But as they spoke to one another in the ring, it was the Ukrainian who demanded that they square off in two months, while Fury and his promoter distanced themselves from the date in question poker
Fury and Usyk facing off after the Briton’s narrow win over Ngannou (Getty Images)Earlier this week, Fury suggested that he would “sue” Usyk if the 36-year-old did not fight him on 23 December poker
Now, Fury’s side are calling for January or February; so, they can expect to be sued, then? Almost certainly not, is the answer of course; there is no public proof that the date is mentioned in their contract, which is why it was silly for Fury to use it against Usyk in the first place poker
It is understandable that Fury’s team are pushing for the fight to take place next year, though poker
It is hard to imagine this version of Fury beating Usyk in December or at all, as different as the southpaw’s skills are when compared to Ngannou’s poker
And what was this version of Fury? Alongside his pre-fight table-poker tennis jibe, he claimed that he could have beaten Ngannou after drinking “25 pints of beer” poker
Here’s hoping the post-fight drug test included a breathalyzer poker
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