Since venturing into boxing in 2018, Paul has fought a fellow influencer, a former NBA basketball player and three MMA fighters. Fighting Fury is widely regarded as a step up and the WBC, which is sanctioning the fight, recognizes it. "Because my life's on the line," he told British newspaper The Independent ahead of the Fury fight, "so I'm not going to take that lightly." "I'm going to teach Jake Paul a lesson … I'm going to show him he can't just pick up a pair of gloves and say, 'I'm going to be a world champion.'" Fury has an 8-0 boxing record but has never fought more than six rounds in a single bout.
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