"I don't like Jake Paul but I respect him."
A week back, superstar YouTuber-turned occasional pro boxer Jake Paul wiped the floor, as they say, with the almost-forty-year-old Olympic wrestler and retired MMA fighter, Ben Askren.
Paul, twenty-four, knocked out Askren, whose boxing skills were as paltry as his grappling skills are mighty, two minutes into the first round, the fight stopped by the ref.
Still, Askren got a guaranteed half-mill for the fight plus, likely, bonuses from the pay-per-view; Paul got 690k plus bonuses.
One man watching the debacle, “Why was the public so interested in two guys who weren’t very good at boxing, boxing?” asked ESPN,” was the Hawaiian surfer Eli Olson.
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Eli, a twenty-eighty-year-old jiujitsu black belt who grew up shredding alongside the Florence bro’s, was moved enough by the cash being thrown around and the absurdity of the event to issue his own challenge.
Would Jake Paul, six-two, a couple hundred pounds, and with twenty million subscribers, have the balls to take on a slim Hawaiian surfer, five-ten, one-sixty, with 18.7k subs?
“I don’t like Jake Paul, but I respect him,” says Eli, “People say he sucks but he’s actually got talent.”
About the Askren bout he says, “I thought it would last a little longer. I’m actually a fan of Ben, he’s one of the best wrestlers in the world but he never ever trained boxing and it showed.”
Eli says the reasons for his post was the, likely, two-mill total Jake Paul made.
“That’s life-changing money. It started as a joke. Then when so many people, including Slater, started reposting my post and it got momentum, I thought, people actually wanna watch this.”
I ask about strategy. Eli ain’t a dud with the ten ounce gloves like Askren but he ain’t pro, either.
“Even though people are calling him the YouTube guy, he’s had more time in the ring than me. He’s had three fights, I have zero. I’d try and rely on footwork and speed. He’s bigger and has more power so I’d rely on footwork and speed. I’d be a hard target, tag him as much as I could. Either land a flurry to rock him or drag him into deeper water and rely on cardio, him getting slower and slower as each round goes. He’s never gone longer than three rounds.”
Say it did happen, and Eli did walk away with a couple of mill, he says he’d throw it down on a swinging crib on the North Shore, although it’d have to be Backyards, Rockies or Log Cabins.
“Everything at Pipe and Off the Wall is five million or more,” says Eli.
Eli’s also realistic enough to know it ain’t the best idea for Paul to take on the relatively unknown and smaller Hawaiian.
“It doesn’t really make sense to him if he’s a lot bigger, and I’m not some superstar, and if he had the risk of possibly losing it’d be more negative than positive.”
Look anything can happen in a boxing match but I think I’d have to give it to Jake. Only because experience in the ring is such a huge difference to just being a tough dude wandering the north shore. Now if it was just an all out brawl, well I was gonna say Jake again, there are videos online of him and his brother on the college wrestling team and make no mistake those 2 boys can wrestle. But I didn’t realise Eli did jiu jitsu until i read this article and likely trained with BJ Penn so I would have to give that to Eli. Knowing Jiu Jitsu there are just so many more available known options when rolling.
in a boxing match, the much bigger, longer reach Jake Paul would very likely smash the much smaller Eli. i literally only saw that one punch he put on askren, and that was enough to show that Paul has technique, power, and the killer instinct; combine that with superior strength, size, and reach, and i’d put my money on jake. sorry eli, im a jitsu, wrestler, boxer too, but i know that in the boxing ring, size matters.
He should fight Chas. Chas loves being punched in the ring.
That’s a low blow…
The way Ben fell tells us he got his bell rung and there was some power behind Paul’s right.
1.) Ben raise’s left hand above his shoulders to measure distance.
2.) Paul’s left foot was just off the mat and moving forward as he through the set up jab under raised glove.
3.) Ben started moving is left foot back as the jab got closer to create distance (too late).
4.) Paul’s closed the distance behind the jab allowing the powerful right to do damage.
5.) Ben’s left foot pendulum’s into his weighted right leg as his upper body and chin were well past tipping
point. Possible he was out in mid air due to he never braced his fall. Waking up when he bounced off the
mat.
Eli take note:
1.) The acne on Paul’s face. Good chance he is juiced up.
2.) The only way to wear him down is go toe to toe get inside. The ring is max 20’x20′ only so much dancing
space.
3.) Your power vs. His! We don’t know if he can handle multiple rounds of body blows? Good angles anything
is possible!
4.) Paul is not brawling he is trying to fight skillfully.
5.) Lastly he has way more to gain “You Tuber destroys North Shore Heavy..” better idea ( “©” Let Jamie and Poops tag team him during each round) or better yet “Fast Eddie” can corner for Koa.
I think we should get you in Eli’s corner.
Llama fact my dear Derrick. Stood in Larry Holmes corner for his last fight, with camera in hand. Got my first assignment for RojoToro from those fine images.
Isn’t Jake Paul the douche who went out and vlogged his looting during the riots?
Yeah and before that he vlogged at the Japanese suicide forest and was laughing at some bodies that they found.
More importantly is what Kelly and his best bud Joe Rogan thinks. They should do a podcast or something and discuss in nauseating detail.
I challenge Gabriel Medina to a surf off (with a guaranteed 500k for me if I lose). Is that news worthy? Of course not, and neither is Eli’s post.
Should we rename this site Box Grit or Ring Grit?
Chokegrit.com
Ring grit. Ouch.
I like this article because it starts off very much like a big story and it ends with very much no story at all.
Derek’s articles are as paltry as his writing skills are mighty.
Much like Quinoa’s heat.
The opposite of a Chas piece.
Get Slater versus Paul Roach on the undercard and I’ll cough up a few shekels
Paul could still take him
You could pay him with a carton of cigarettes.
that does make me wonder, how a small guy like Kelly doesn’t get his ass beat for some of the stuff he says. i would think that at some point he says some of these “opinions” to someone face to face?? I am only saying he is controversial