HASIM RAHMAN JR revealed that Jake Paul compared himself to Floyd Mayweather before they started rowing after talking to each other.
Rahman shared five rounds with Paul in Las Vegas in preparation for the YouTuber-turned-boxer’s second professional fight.
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Fast forward two years and the pair have signed on to fight for real, leading to a heated exchange of their sparring to be released.
rahman, incensed seen in the clip posted by Paulclaimed he was verbally insulted after the session, which provoked his furious reaction.
He told SunSport: “He used the word “bitch”. And that’s not how I play. You can see he didn’t use it during the press conference.
“I believe it was over then and it was when the sparring was done.
“But I said to him, ‘You don’t like that I’m disabled now’.
“Because he was talking crap while we were boxing, like ‘I’m better than Floyd Mayweather’. And I’m like, ‘What? Are you kidding?’
“But it is what it is, August 6th I can expose this clown.”
A lot of thought has gone into the sparring session at Bones Adams’ Vegas gym.
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But Rahman claimed that what Paul doesn’t know is that he was specifically asked to: hold back during the rounds.
That included the ban on turning left-handed and using only his leading hand.
Rahman said: “I was there to build his confidence, to have someone to swing to and really not hurt him when he comes back, just a durable guy who will be there.
“I’m sure his coaches don’t tell him what they tell his sparring partners before sparring him.
“I know they aren’t, that would be counterproductive to what they’re trying to do. They try to build his confidence.
“So they’re not going to tell him, ‘Hey, we asked these pros not to go all out on you and just go 35-40 percent, maybe 50 percent’.
“I put this man in a box with one hand and I know he didn’t realize it.
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“So if he goes back and watches the tape, he’ll be like, ‘Oh wow, he really did use one hand.’
“And if I switched left, I would only do that for five or ten seconds and get a warning from his trainer or something to switch back.
“It wasn’t like I was boxing him or competing to win.
“If this man opposite me, with his training wheels on, is here and doing his best.”
Paul sparred Rahman for his first two professional winson YouTuber “AnEsonGib” and ex-NBA star Nate Robinson, 38.
He later defeated former MMA champions Ben Askren, 37, and Tyron Woodley, 40.
He would then fight Tommy Fury at New York’s famous Madison Square Garden.
But again, Fury, 23, was forced to be revoked amid US visa issuewho was out last year with a rib injury.
Rahman, 31, agreed to intervene late and signed on to send Paul in a 14th 4lb cruiserweight bout over eight rounds.
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