Carl Frampton believes that Jake Paul is the favourite in his fight with Tommy Fury
The former world champion backed the YouTuber to succeed
Jake Paul and light heavyweight prospect Tommy Fury – the brother of WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury – will meet on December 18 in a long-anticipated fight, which carries a lot of bad blood already.
Both fighters hold unbeaten records, and while Fury was unimpressive in his win over Anthony Taylor on Paul’s last card, against Tyron Woodley, he represents the first credible boxing professional that the YouTuber will face in his career.
Speaking to JOE, former super-bantamweight and featherweight champion Frampton, who retired earlier this year after defeat to Jamel Herring, believes that the American has the edge.
“I think that it’s a huge fight and if I’m being honest, I’d probably favour Jake Paul in the fight," he said.
“He carefully picked his opponents obviously and he’s not fought a boxer yet, but the first boxer he’s fighting is a guy who’s a relative novice in the grand scheme of things and who seems to have issues going more than four rounds.
“So I think that I would favour Jake Paul in that fight and then we hear him, as mad as it may sound, he’s beat a real boxer, although it’s Tommy Fury, he starts calling out Gervonta Davis, Canelo [Álvarez] it’s mental.
“But, yeah I’d favour him in the fight against Tommy Fury.”
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