MMA star Anthony ‘Pretty Boy’ Taylor has predicted that Jake Paul will knock Tommy Fury out when the pair meet in December.
Taylor is a sparring partner of Paul’s and fought Fury on the undercard of the Tyson Woodley event back in the summer.
His feedback on his defeat to Fury is understood to be a major contributor to Paul’s decision to agree to fight him.
‘Pretty Boy’ as he goes by in the MMA world, has been speaking to Vegas Insider and predicted that his close friend and compatriot will be breezing past Fury when the pair meet on December 18th.
“If I had to put my life on the line I’d predict Jake is going to dominate Fury. He might most likely KO Fury, or TKO.”
“When you look at Tommy versus Jake, it’s more like Anthony Joshua versus Uysk. Think about it, Jake moves around well using footwork and has good head movement. He moves around like Usyk.”
“When you look at Tommy, he’s very stationary, like Anthony Joshua. He relies on that one big punch. So that’s how the fight’s going to be.”
“Don’t expect Tommy Fury to be bouncing on his tippy toes, but expect Jake to do that because Jake got good ring awareness.”
Taylor is part of Paul’s loyal gang of followers and was given the biggest payday of his career fighting on the Woodley undercard. You’d expect him to give his backing to the YouTuber.
That said, he’s an MMA fighter and a considerably shorter man than Fury, yet was given no real problems to contend with in the ring. You can’t blame him for not thinking highly of the British boxer.
You can DEFINITELY blame him for comparing Jake chuffing Paul to unified heavyweight champion of the world Oleksandr Usyk, though. That is utterly outrageous…