Styles make fights

Jake Paul has shown a steady improvement. He’s throwing more punches. His recent fight against Nate Diaz saw him up his punch volume into the 50s — which is around the Cruiserweight average.

He’s jabbing nice and setting up one of those big right hands that can be so devastating.

As for August, his last victory came against Brandon Martin.

Martin is 6ft 4″ – much taller than 5ft 10″ August, who went to the body early and landed over 30 body punches in the opening round.

Jake ringwalk

I was expecting a motivational anthem for Jake Paul’s entry. I certainly did not expect that.

He danced his way to the ring to Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree by Brenda Lee…

Yes, it’s bizarre. Or is this just the Jake Paul experience?

“Money doesn’t create legacy”

He’s certainly saying the right things to get the respect of the boxing community.

Jake Paul had a lot of things to say at his press conference ahead of this contest (as you can imagine), and he’s quite adamant that he intends create history in the sport.

“The biggest criticism is that I should fight a real boxer. And it’s time to answer that, show up and put it all on the line.

“All the Influencer s*** and MMA s*** is cool, draws big PPV numbers, is fun and there’s more s*** talk. But none of that was really my goal.

“Money doesn’t create legacy. This is my road to world champion, and it’s about getting the experience under the bright lights to be able to compete at the highest level.

“It would create one of the greatest sports stories in history. To go from Disney Channel to world champion in less than six years – that’s why I’m here.”

National anthems

Big fan of Raiche Wright doing the US national anthem. Chants of “USA, USA, USA,” followed of course.

OK, Andre August’s ring walk is beginning now. Quite difficult to decipher how he’s feeling. He’s been quiet and not giving anything away with his facial expressions – good Poker player I’ll bet.

Logan predicts

I’m sure you’re all dying to hear what Logan Paul thinks will happen tonight.

And GUESS WHAT… he thinks his little brother is going to win.

Didn’t see it coming.

He said: “I think Jake’s going to f*** this guy up. This guy seems nervous and he’s not in his element. I predict a 3rd Round Jake Paul knockout.”

Jake’s ready

We’ve just seen a few shots of Jake Paul ready to go backstage. He looked very focused right up until his brother Logan decided to put him on his shoulders and walk around the room.