Jake Paul
WBA Rank ‘A Slap In The Face’
No. 15 Cruiserweight Says
Published
TMZSports.com
Jake Paul is now the No. 14 cruiserweight within the WBA rankings … and you recognize who’s pissed about that?? The man who was the No. 14 cruiserweight heading into this week — 20-0 fighter Craig Parker.
TMZ Sports spoke with the now-No. 15-ranked boxer in regards to the improvement … and he mentioned, fairly frankly, it is “disgusting information to me” as a result of in his opinion, he hasn’t paid his dues.
“For him simply to take a place that guys like me that struggled to search out methods to the fitness center and … it is a lengthy highway to be the place we’re at. And for him to simply be No. 14, it was similar to a slap within the face.”
Parker — who gained all 20 of his bouts on his document by knockout — says the maths is not including up … ‘trigger he is all the time seeking to tackle the following large problem, whereas Paul went up in opposition to a man like Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., who was a middleweight champion a decade-plus in the past.
Parker does recognize what Paul has finished for the game — particularly girls’s boxing — however believes the opponents he is taking up do not give him a lot credibility, not to mention consideration for a spot within the rankings.
Parker thinks there’s a simple method to settle the matter — he needs to struggle Jake Paul to see if he actually earned his place.
Despite the drama, Parker says the information will not hold him from reaching his objective … which is to be the undisputed cruiserweight champion of the world.