In recent times, ‘The Problem Child’ has heavily criticised the UFC boss – particularly due to the issue regarding fighter pay in the promotion

 

Mike Tyson remains a big fan of Dana White, while YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul recently addressed the beef he has with the UFC boss.

 

Over the years, both White and Paul have traded barbs on social media on multiple occasions. Since making his professional boxing debut in 2020, ‘The Problem Child’ has fought a number of UFC icons and has criticised the promotion over its fighter pay. Last year, he said he wanted to see the minimum pay for UFC fighters rise from $12,500 to $50,000.

 

Earlier this summer, the young American declared that he was barred from the promotion’s fights ahead of sneaking into their landmark card at the Sphere in Las Vegas. Paul, asserted he was banned from all events back in 2022 before posting a video of himself wearing a fake beard, wig, flannel shirt, and sunglasses in an attempt to ‘sneak into the Sphere’.

 

It led to the UFC boss publicly revealing that the social media star is able to attend any live UFC event. However, Paul claimed earlier this month that he received an email from White which states that he’s unable to sit cageside for any of the UFC’s fight cards.

 

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In a recent episode of his podcast, Paul addressed the problem he has with White and doubled down on the issue regarding fighter pay in the UFC. “The only thing I’ve ever really asked for is for the minimum fighter pay, which is $12,500, to be changed to $50,000”, he said. “If fighters, who have to work multiples jobs, if they once a year even, they would still be able to live off of that, and if it was twice a year, they would make $100,000 – which is great.

 

“But now, if they’re fighting once a year, it’s $12,500 or twice a year which would be $25,000, so that’s been my only ask to Dana to change and that would only cost the UFC $20million annually. It seems ‘oh, you made three or four billion dollars’, why not give a little bit more to the fighters? Make that change and I’ll shut the f*** up.

 

“When I started talking about this, that was when Dana was like ‘oh, Jake Paul does steroid, Jake Paul’s fights are rigged’. So he’s the one that started all of the personal rumours, he’s been the biggest voice of oppression to me because I’m the only one in the entire fight business who can talk back to him”.