Jake Paul vs Anderson Silva: YouTuber mocks UFC president Dana White in Twitter video

Jake Paul has mockingly thanked UFC president Dana White for helping to promote his upcoming fight with Anderson Silva.

Paul competes for the sixth time as a professional against Silva on October 29 at the Gila River Arena in Glendale, Arizona.

The YouTube star had been scheduled to face Tommy Fury and Hasim Rahman Jr but both of those fights ended up being scrapped for a number of reasons.

Now he faces his toughest fight yet in a few weeks’ time.

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In front of a televised audience live on Showtime PPV he comes up against UFC legend Silva, considered one of the greatest MMA fighters of all time.

And Paul couldn’t resist the opportunity to take a potshot at White having been mocked for cherry-picking his opponents in the past.

“Ladies and gentlemen it is time for the fight announcement you have all been waiting for,” he said on Twitter.

Check out the video below…

Dana White saying I’d never fight Anderson Silva(1/2) pic.twitter.com/D5p1fZM2us

“I usually have to sell my fights, I usually have to do all of the work. But this time Dana White, Conor McGregor’s dad, is promoting the fight for me. Thank you.

“Now I normally don’t agree with Dana White but he is right. Anderson Silva is literally the greatest MMA fighter of all time and one of the most versatile fighters in the history of combat sports.

“He literally just schooled a world champion boxer in Julio ‘Captain Crunch’ Cesar Jr the Third.

“Anderson Silva has been on a KO streak, knocking out Tito Ortiz, Bruno Machado. I mean this guy is nasty in the ring. This fight was supposed to be after Tommy Fury because I’ve never fought a southpaw and this is a much tougher fight.

“Every fight critic said