Jake Paul hit out at veteran boxing promoter Bob Arum following his comments about Katie Taylor vs. Amanda Serrano, and women’s boxing.
In an interview with IFL TV, Arum who is set to announce Shakur Stevenson vs. Oscar Valdez for April 30th - the same date planned for Taylor vs. Serrano at New York’s Madison Square Garden - chose to talk down the rival event, and the whole discipline.
“As good a fight as that is, I mean, come on!” he began.
“For whatever reason people don’t particularly pay attention to the women’s fights. ESPN made the schedule and they couldn’t care less.
“I don’t want to denigrate fights and I don’t want to be accused of being anti-women in sports but I’m telling you this is like the Premier League against Women’s football,” said Arum as he denigrated the fight.
Paul’s Most Valuable Promotions organisation signed Serrano in 2021 and he has been working with Matchroom promoter Eddie Hearn on the event, and he took to Twitter to complain over the criticism.
"Men like this dinosaur r the reason women haven’t been given a fair shake in many parts of society,” he wrote. “I feel sorry 4 @mikaelamayer1 she deserves better. & he says @espn doesn’t care about the biggest women’s boxing event in history? #TaylorSerrano will make history with or w/o u".