Jake Paul's boxing career started with an incredible victory, although he was struggling to take his plan into action in the night.
The YouTube star made the transition to boxing in 2018. The boxing debut of Jake Paul was against colleague Youtuber Deji, where the bloody Paulus won a fifth round pension.
Since then, the controversial star has continued to fight countless hunters, including Paul's victories on former champions such as Mike Tyson and Anderson Silva.
The next fight by Paul is a collision with former world champion Julio Cesar Chavez JR, and he will hope to simulate his earlier performances by beating him on 28 June.
Those incredible victories were far away from his first professional fight, which showed a many other Paul in the boxing ring.
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Jake Paul took Anesongib on his professional boxing debut
After an amateur defense on Deji in his debut fight in 2018, two years of Training Paul saw another YouTuber following in his first professional boxing match.
As the Co-Main event of the WBO World Centralweight title match between Demetrius Andrade and Luke Keeler, Paul fought against Anesongib in the first trip of both men in real fighting.
It was clear from the first round of their fight on January 30, 2020 that none of the hunters had a lot of experience in the ring.
They both fought with a very unorthodox position, where GIB ran over several times in the first round because of his unbalanced style of boxing.
Paul's Jab pushed Gib back several times, his immense power benefit became clear as the first round went on.
The end of the fight was rather anticlimactic and pointed more to the lack of talent in GIB than on an impressive performance of Paul.
A straight hook connected after countless missed bumps, which stumbles GIB. Because this was the third time he had been brought down by simple shots, the referee had no choice but to end the fight and to grant Paul the TKO victory.
Jake Paul admitted that he was struggling to make contact with his strength shots during the fight
Despite a knockout in the first round where he didn't look at all, Paul struggled to follow the game plan that his trainer, “Sugar” Shane Moseley, had left for him.
In an interview after the fight with matchroom boxing, the YouTube star admitted that he was not allowed to use his strength and most of his big punches missed during the game.
“I didn't even really show my skills. I have none of my really hard punches – most of them were just grazing shots from the top of the head or hardly connected.
“Shane always told me in practice:” You have strength, you have strength, “and I had something like:” Okay, cool, “but I didn't really believe it until I had eliminated him in the first round.”
The game plan was to bring down GIB with Power Punches, but Paul's Jabs were enough to obtain three knockdowns and the TKO victory on his professional debut.