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Jake Paul's team prank-calls his boxing opponent Ben Askren's training partners to make sexual jokes

Mar 11, 2021, 21:18 IST
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J'Leon Love and Jake Paul.Photo by Jake Paul / YouTube
  • Nobody in combat sport is safe from trolling when Jake Paul is on the loose.
  • The latest target of the YouTube celebrity is the training partners of his Ben Askren.
  • Paul fights Askren on April 17 in Atlanta.
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Nobody in combat sport is safe from Jake Paul's trolling when the internet sensation is on the loose.

The YouTube creator has a history of playfully terrorizing fighters, and his latest targets are the training partners of his upcoming boxing opponent Ben Askren.

Paul competes in his third professional bout on April 17 at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta and competes against the former MMA champion Askren, a wrestler by trade and not known for his striking.

In one of Paul's latest videos, the prankster regularly talks about a boxing documentary he wants to release, shows a highlight of him throwing uppercuts at his trainer BJ Flores' pads during a training session, and also receives wisdom from the former heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield.

It wasn't all work, though.

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Paul is also about that play as he is not a dull boy.

And so it was not long before Paul's team started calling Askren's trainer partners and making sexual jokes.

To Cornelius Bundrage, a 47-year-old former two-time super welterweight world champion boxer who helps coach Askren, one of Paul's entourage members asked: "What do you think it's going to taste like when Jake Paul knocks Ben the f--- out and he s---- on him, and you have to clean up all the s---.

"You're his coach, you have to clean all that up."

Bundrage did not laugh and called them haters.

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Paul then got on the line and referenced oral sex. "You got some mouth-wash, buddy?" He asked.

Later, one of Paul's training partners J'Leon Love - a super welterweight boxer repped by Mayweather Promotions - called the UFC welterweight Tyron Woodley, a friend of Askren's, and offered the fighter counsel.

Before Love even began trolling, Woodley seemed unamused and said his PR usually handles interview requests.

Love then made sexual jokes until Woodley hung up.

It is not the first time Paul has pranked fighters ...

Paul and Ben Askren.Photos by Getty Images

… and it likely won't be the last

In December, Paul offered Conor McGregor $50 million to fight him in an insult-filled, expletive-laden video on social media.

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In the 58-second clip, the YouTube creator insulted McGregor's fiancée, Dustin Poirier, and the UFC boss, Dana White.

Around the same time, he interrupted an interview McGregor's training partner Dillon Danis was providing a Showtime employee by throwing toilet roll at Danis before driving away.

The next month, Paul continued his merciless trolling of McGregor's fight team by mocking the Irishman's sparring partner Dylan Moran.

Moran's manager Conor Slater was outraged by Paul's antics and said: "He is disrespecting Dylan and the sport of boxing."

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