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Jake Paul knows how to get under his opponents’ skin.
He’s done it with just about every opponent he’s faced in his boxing career, sans Anderson Silva.
But former UFC star Nate Diaz, who is set to fight Paul on Aug. 5 in Dallas, doesn’t appreciate the fun and games.
Paul previously called Diaz’s unwillingness to engage in trash talk “boring.” But Diaz said in May that there was no need to start the trash so long before the fight.
Now the fight is just weeks away, and Diaz is done holding back.
“This guy thinks he’ll actually beat everybody’s f****** a** and he’s louder than all you fools who are really beating people’s a****,” Diaz said on Bradley Martyn’s Raw Talk. “So now I have to step the f*** out to box real quick and whip this m***********’s a** so we’ll know who’s the real a** whipper. Understand what I’m saying. People saying, ‘Oh, it’s a mismatch’ and this and that. Well, then you f****** fight him, m***********. Make sure the best fights are happening because that’s what I’m here to see when I’m watching fighting. And this fools poppin’ off in interviews: ‘We’re real fighters.’ Prove it m***********. I’ma go beat his a** for talkin’ s***.
“And then he was talking s*** to Conor [McGregor] and dissing his wife, and s***. On some real disrespectful stuff that he shouldn’t be saying. And nobody’s saying s***. I’m the one that said, shut the f*** up, b****. I’m gonna whoop your a** for real.”
That is…a lot of asterisks.
But it’s also the Nate Diaz that fight fans have come to know and love. Diaz has never been one to hold back and starting now would’ve come as a real surprise.
As for backing up what he said, he’ll have ever opportunity when the two step into the ring for their 10-round fight at American Airlines Center.