's manager, Nakisa Bidarian, has offered social media star IShowSpeed a whopping $20million to fight the YouTuber-turned-boxer.
The lucrative offer comes hours after IShowSpeed - real name Darren Watkins - claimed that he could beat 'The Problem Child with just six months of training. He said: "If I have six months, all I need is six months [to train for a fight]. If I have six months of training, I'm beating any monster in this . I feel like I can beat in a fight. Look, I respect his work ethic, but when I watch him box, he doesn't look fluent. I feel like I could really get him. When you watch it, you see flaws in his game."
Soon after Watkins' comments emerged online, Bidarian had made Speed a life-changing eight-figure offer to get in the ring with his client. "Cool. Tell him I have $10 million for him right now," Bidarian said. "Sign this week. If he beats Jake he gets a $10 million bonus. Put your signature where you're clout is."
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Paul, 27, was also quick to share his thoughts on the possibility of fighting the social media sensation. He said: "Speed knows better. My guy was playing for sure." It all comes after the young American's latest triumph in the squared-circle. 'The Problem Child' recently on Friday night at the AT&T Stadium in Dallas, Texas.
'The Problem Child' failed to land any fight-ending punches throughout the contest, even after telling him he "had to die" the night before after the 58-year-old had slapped him during their face-off. When asked if he took his foot off the gas, the 27-year-old said: "Yeah, definitely, definitely a bit. I wanted to give the fans a show, but I didn’t want [to hurt him]. I wanted to give the fans a show, but I didn’t want to hurt somebody that didn’t need to be hurt."
Paul recently opened up on the ankle injury he suffered before beating - claiming he recovered from a sprained ankle "quicker than any human has ever." Preparations for his clash with 'Iron Mike' were disrupted as he sustained a serious ankle injury just a few weeks before the clash, which left him on crutches.
He said on : "I definitely felt the fact that my ankle was... let's talk about it. Basically I sprained my ankle, tore the ligament, bruised everything, tore the other side of it. This was 22 days ago. Couldn't walk, was on crutches, throbbing pain, swollen ankle. Mentally, to push through that was the hardest part. did everything I could, was on crutches for four days, morale was pretty low.
"This is the Baddest Man on the Planet, I just had to trust the God doesn't make mistakes and there's a silver lining in this. Missed two weeks of sparring, couldn't really do much and only sparred this past seven days. Ankle still weak, still taped it, was still good enough to go in there, but felt my cardio was still affected by two weeks of training."
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