scorecard
  1. Home
  2. sports
  3. news
  4. Floyd Mayweather is helping UFC star Tyron Woodley train ahead of his Jake Paul fight later this summer

Floyd Mayweather is helping UFC star Tyron Woodley train ahead of his Jake Paul fight later this summer

Alan Dawson   

Floyd Mayweather is helping UFC star Tyron Woodley train ahead of his Jake Paul fight later this summer
  • Tyron Woodley has been training with boxing legend Floyd Mayweather.
  • Mayweather is helping the former UFC champion get ready for his fight with Jake Paul.
  • "Y'all f---ed up," Woodley wrote on Instagram alongside a picture of himself and Mayweather.

Floyd Mayweather is helping MMA star Tyron Woodley train ahead of his boxing match against Jake Paul later this summer.

Paul, a novice boxer who is yet to face a legitimate pro, has a 3-0 record and is more experienced fighting using boxing rules than Woodley, who enters the ring as a debutant in that discipline.

Woodley, however, told Paul he has "f---ed up" after the former UFC champ enlisted the help of Floyd Mayweather, one of the greatest boxers of all time, to help him transition from mixed martial arts to boxing.

It is unclear for how long Mayweather will coach Woodley.

Mayweather recently boxed an eight-round exhibition involving Paul's older brother Logan, yet it was Jake who ran amok at pre-fight press events, stole Mayweather's hat, and infuriated the boxer so much that he screamed: "I'll kill that mother-f---er."

Woodley said it's a "bank robbery in progress," and appears confident he'll beat Paul when they come to blows August 1 at a to-be-determined location.

See photos of Mayweather train Woodley here:

A post shared by Tyron Woodley (@twooodley)

Paul's head trainer B.J. Flores called Woodley an "excellent challenge" for his fighter, Boxing Scene reported this week.

"He's a decent striker," Flores said of Woodley.

"He is very capable and definitely somebody that we are taking very serious. Jake likes to talk but nobody knows the kind of dog he is in the gym. We will not be outworked."

Paul has beaten fellow creator AnEsonGib, ex-NBA dunk champion Nate Robinson, and former UFC fighter Ben Askren so far in his fledgling boxing career.

In MMA, Woodley has fought luminaries like Paul Daley, Rory MacDonald, Robbie Lawler, Stephen Thompson (twice), Darren Till, Kamaru Usman, Gilbert Burns, and Colby Covington.

READ MORE ARTICLES ON



Popular Right Now



Advertisement