Granting the Jake Paul vs Tommy Fury winner a world rating could be “a debacle,” says former fighter, boxing coach and pundit Gary Logan.
The WBC introduced that they might give Jake Paul a place of their world rankings at cruiserweight if he beat Tommy Fury, the youthful brother of WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury.
It’s a shocking transfer as Paul, a Youtuber turned prizefighter, has up to now solely crushed one other influencer, a basketball participant and MMA fighters in his boxing bouts.
Jake Paul says his upcoming battle in opposition to Tommy Fury is a ‘stepping stone’ in his quest to turn out to be world champion.
He’s additionally been boxing at catchweights between light-heavy and cruiserweight.
“It’s not even at cruiserweight against a decidedly smaller man and he gets a world ranking,” Logan informed Sky Sports.
“It’s just a debacle. Nothing about it makes any sense to me. How does he get a world ranking when he’s not boxed anyone near a world ranking as a cruiserweight? Tommy Fury is not a cruiserweight.”
Fury, like Paul, is an unbeaten prospect so this is a well-matched bout in itself.
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But Logan considers it far too quickly to be placing the winner in at world stage.
“What does that say to other fighters?” Logan questioned.
“It doesn’t matter who you fight. If we choose to, we will rank you.
“You do not must justify it, you do not have to battle anyone respectable so long as you carry sufficient YouTube clout, which is what they’re saying.
“It’s just a joke. It shows you the power of YouTube, which is a very, very scary thing. Because people are just not being realistic about these fighters.
“I’ve acquired little question that Jake Paul prepares nicely for his contests and trains onerous. But he is not been in there in opposition to anyone who we will say is a modicum of a true skilled boxer. He actually hasn’t boxed a skilled boxer. [He has] no novice background.
Tommy Fury says that he’ll train Jake Paul a lesson and present that he is not a actual boxer once they go face to face on February 26 in Saudi Arabia.
“The writing’s on the wall at some point as to how much he’s going to get embarrassed when he does fight someone that’s half-decent. Not even half-decent.”
“A shambles. I’m so disheartened by it,” Logan concluded. “I think it just flies in the face of what goes on in the past.
“I do know occasions change however the stage of your means ought to at all times be judged. I’ve heard about being manoeuvred into a world rating – however this takes the biscuit.”
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