Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano are set to make history in April when they become the first female fighters to headline a boxing event at Madison Square Garden.
Talks have been ongoing over securing this bout, which Jake Paul recently revealed would be a "seven figure payday" for his client Serrano.
The Most Valuable Promotions founder is currently taking time away from his own boxing career to promote the blockbuster fight in New York.
But hyping up his client is not the only thing Paul has said recently about the upcoming fight. The Problem Child waded in to defend both Serrano and Taylor after Bob Arum played down the growing popularity of women's boxing.
"I mean, as good a fight as that is — come on. You know, whatever reason it is, people don’t particularly pay attention to the women’s fights,” the Top Rank promoter told iFL TV.
"The answer is ESPN made the schedule and they couldn’t care less. I don’t want to denigrate fights, I don’t want to be accused of being anti-women in sports, but I’m telling you, this is like the Premier League against women’s football."
His comments came after being asked whether Taylor vs Serrano being aired by DAZN on the same night as ESPN's showing of Shakur Stevenson vs Oscar Valdez would impact the men's viewing numbers.
This isn't the first time Arum has been criticised for the way he has spoken to, or about women in boxing.
Last October, he hit out at presenter Kate Abdo after a press conference between Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder.
Arum interrupted a staredown instructed by Abdo and later accused her of being biased towards Wilder in a hot-headed outburst.
"They bring this woman in from the UK and she's slanting all the press conference to Wilder," he said.
"I don't give a
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