‘I’m knocking him out – first round’: Jake Paul serious about fighting Conor McGregor

Jake Paul has suggested he would knock out Conor McGregor in the first round if the pair were to fight – even in a mixed martial arts bout.

Paul is 5-0 as a professional boxer, having knocked out two former UFC stars in Tyron Woodley and Ben Askren. Woodley held the promotion’s welterweight title, while Askren reigned in the same weight class in other companies.

Paul, 25, has teased a venture into MMA and has long called out McGregor, who previously held the UFC featherweight and lightweight belts simultaneously as the first ever dual-weight champion in the history of the promotion.

“Conor is on a downhill spiral,” Paul told TMZ. “His limbs are all broken. So, stand-up game, I’m knocking him out – first round.”

The American was referencing the broken leg that McGregor sustained in his last fight, a defeat by Dustin Poirier. That bout in July followed the Irishman’s first loss to Poirier, who knocked out his old rival last January to avenge his own knockout defeat by McGregor from 2014.

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