Jake Paul faces off with Gliberto ‘Zurdo' Ramirez after calling cruiserweight world champion ‘easy work'
JAKE PAUL went face to face with unified cruiserweight world champion Gilberto "Zurdo" Ramirez.
Ramirez successfully defended his unified WBA and WBO belts against Cuban Yuniel Dorticos in California.
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Jake Paul facing off with world champ Gilberto 'Zurdo' Ramirez
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In the main event, YouTuber-turned-boxer Paul cruised to victory after ten rounds with former middleweight world champ Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.
And afterwards, he audaciously called out Mexico's 49-1 Ramirez.
He said: "I want tougher fighters. I want to be world champion. Zurdo looked slow as s*** tonight, that'd be easy work too."
Paul later called out heavyweight star Anthony Joshua and Tommy Fury in the post-fight press conference.
And after Ramirez walked into the room, they faced off to tease a future bout.
Ramirez, 34, himself called out Australia's pound-for-pound star and IBF champion Jai Opetaia, 30, for a three-belt unification bout.
He said: '(Opetaia) is the fight that I want. I'm the king. Get my phone and call me. I want it. Be ready.'
Paul, 28, meanwhile teased a rematch with Fury, 26, who he lost to via split-decision in 2023 to stand as his lone defeat in the ring.
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He said: "I don't even think I was a fighter then. I was like two years, two and a half years into the sport and I didn't really know what I was doing.
"I didn't have the proper team around me, the proper conditioning. My lifestyle outside of the ring was still that of like a YouTuber, celebrity actor, whatever I was at that point.
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"So I wasn't fully focused on boxing. Like I said, this feels like chapter one's done tonight.
"Now we're moving into chapter two and I'm just getting warmed up in this sport but people hold the Tommy Fury thing against me, but what now?
"I just beat a former world champion and I'm coming to avenge that loss as well with Tommy."
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Jake Paul beat Julio Cesar Chavez Jr on points
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