LAS VEGAS — When he is introduced publicly, Jake Paul is almost always referred to as “a YouTube sensation,” even though, by his own admission, Paul is no longer a YouTuber.
After thinking about it for a while, Paul said he prefers to be referred to as an athlete, or a boxer, because that’s what he is.
His trainer, B.J. Flores, insists with a straight face that he has the ability to become a very good one. That may well be so.
But on Saturday night when he steps into the ring at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta to face ex-Bellator and ONE champion Ben Askren, he will do so as a professional boxer who has yet to face a boxer in the ring.