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Sam Alvey Calls Jake Paul “A Douche”, Wants Boxing Match

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Sam Alvey Calls Jake Paul “A Douche”, Wants Boxing Match

“Smiling” Sam Alvey may have been released from the UFC this past week, but that doesn’t mean he is quite ready to hang up the gloves for good.

On the heels of his loss at UFC Vegas 59 and his release thereafter, Alvey appeared on The MMA Hour with Ariel Helwani to give a look into his future plans and what he would like to do outside of the octagon. Even talking through a broken jaw, Alvey made it clear there is one thing he wants more than anything else right now, and that is to fight Jake Paul.

“Every MMA fighter wants it, but now it kind of makes sense — is the Jake Paul fight,” Alvey said Wednesday on The MMA Hour. “Everybody wants to do it. I like to joke that I haven’t won in a while, which is the kind of guys he likes to fight, so that makes sense. I’m the same size as him, which will be a little different for him — he tends to like fighting people that are smaller than him, so he’ll have to make a little exception for that. But I’m the first guy that he would have fought that is a knockout guy. I am a guy that has always been a striker, and I would be the first non-wrestler. I’m not quite a boxer. I’ve never boxed. I’ve kickboxed, 7-1 professional kickboxing, but I’ve never boxed. But I am a striker. So it might be the way he sees himself fighting next. I think it makes sense. There’s a chance.

“We’re reaching out to [Showtime], we’re seeing what happens.”

Full quote via MMAFighting.com

Sam Alvey set a UFC record this past weekend, but it is not something worth bragging about. Alvey lost his ninth straight fight Saturday, setting the record for most consecutive losses in UFC history, taking the title from UFC Hall of Famer B.J. Penn. But that won’t stop “Smiling” Sam Alvey from being positive. He spoke fondly about his time with the company, but also spoke about his history with the Paul brothers.

“A fun story — before their first fight, they invited me to come out and help them train, so I helped spar with Logan Paul,” Alvey said. “This would’ve been five years ago, six years ago, something like that. I ended up meeting with their boxing coach, standing in line for an MMA junkie award or something. And his boxing trainer and I, we split messages and they brought me out to help them train for a day, so I got to spar with Logan Paul. And it was a lot of fun. Logan seemed like a good dude. I wasn’t crazy about Jake.

“He was a douche. He was. I’m smiling Sam, I’m not supposed to be saying that — he was, he was a douche. Logan seemed OK. Logan, I actually almost broke his jaw in the sparring session. I was doing the best I could to carry him, to just be a training partner for him, throw some. And he just kept getting hit. And at one point he kind of fell back, ‘I’m sorry! I’m sorry! I’m sorry! I’m sorry!’ But I was supposed to spar his brother too, Jake. Jake wouldn’t do it afterward. I said, ‘Jake, I’ll take it easy, I’ll give you whatever work you want.’ But Jake wouldn’t spar me that day. And then I was never invited back.”

It’s no secret in the fight game that there are quite a few fighters who are not fond of the Paul brothers, arguably no one bigger than Jorge Masvidal. Alvey went on to explain what rubbed him the wrong way.

“Some of the stuff he was doing with the girls that were at our boxing day, it was bad,” Alvey said. “That bothered me. It was nothing terrible. It was just, yeah, he was doing stuff I was present for, and it’s like, they were fine with it, but I wasn’t. So that was kind of my big problem for the day. But his fighter pay thing — and people hate me for this because I think fighter pay is pretty good and I defend it fairly well — he goes after fighter pay, but he doesn’t do it because he believes anything. He does it because it’s an easy win, it’s an easy way to get people on his side.

“If the UFC were to do what he wants them to do, as far as fighter pay goes — everyone gets paid a million dollars or $10 million or whatever it is he’s saying — he would just get most of the roster of the UFC fired. If the UFC were to increase their pay to what Jake Paul wants them to do, the UFC wouldn’t be able to have the same business model they do. Instead of having 800 fighters on the roster, they would drop it down to 100. Those 100 would get paid very, very well, but they wouldn’t get advertised for as much, they wouldn’t be given as much stuff, and the rest of the roster would be fired, would be sent out to wherever else they could find fights.”

Knowing the type of person Jake Paul is, best believe we can expect to hear some sort of response about the comments made by Sam Alvey. Even if nothing comes of it, it is always fun stuff to read about the back-and-forth exchange between Paul and real fighters. Will Paul ever step up to the plate and fight someone with the skills like Alvey or better?

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