{"id":120943,"date":"2021-08-29T02:17:26","date_gmt":"2021-08-29T02:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=120943"},"modified":"2021-08-29T08:05:17","modified_gmt":"2021-08-29T08:05:17","slug":"jake-paul-sparks-melee-ahead-of-woodley-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=120943","title":{"rendered":"Jake Paul sparks melee ahead of Woodley fight"},"content":{"rendered":"

After their earlier weigh in went to plan without any rowdy behaviour, Jake Paul and Tyron Woodley got into another shoving match<\/a> during a public appearance later in the day.<\/p>\n

In a blatant attempt to promote their boxing bout tomorrow<\/a>, both men and their teams filled the stage as security and Cleveland police got in the middle of it.<\/p>\n

It started when Paul was being interviewed by MMA reporter Ariel Helwani, and was asked why he was eating chicken fingers on stage. <\/p>\n

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"Chicken fingers, Tyron's a chicken," Paul told Helwani.<\/p>\n

"It makes sense."<\/p>\n

Woodley then walked over and reached out to give him packets of wet wipes, and Paul slapped them out of Woodley's hands. <\/p>\n

He then shoved the former UFC champ away, kicked him and tried to reach for his hat, in a similar stunt he pulled on Floyd Mayweather in May.<\/p>\n

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Woodley moved away and there was pushing and shoving with people on stage before they cooled down.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, Woodley slammed members of Paul's team for talking trash to his mother<\/a>, having to be held back after the prefight news conference.<\/p>\n

Earlier, Paul weighed in at 190 pounds (86kg) at the Intercontinental Hotel for the catchweight bout. <\/p>\n

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Woodley, the former UFC welterweight champion, weighed in at 189.5 pounds (85.95kg) — the heaviest he has been in his combat sports career.<\/p>\n

Woodley fought in the UFC exclusively at 170 pounds (77kg) but will be at a size disadvantage for the eight 3-minute rounds bout.<\/p>\n

Paul (3-0) is facing the toughest test of his boxing career. In his last fight, he knocked out former UFC fighter Ben Askren in the first round. <\/p>\n

For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0clicking here!<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After their earlier weigh in went to plan without any rowdy behaviour, Jake Paul and Tyron Woodley got into another shoving match during a public […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120943"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120943"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120945,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120943\/revisions\/120945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}