@jakepaul has a message for @danawhite while calling out @TheNotoriousMMA, @USMAN84kg, @NateDiaz209 and @GamebredFighter. #PaulWoodley #boxing #ufc pic.twitter.com/Ei5w912vgd
— Steven Muehlhausen (@SMuehlhausenJr) December 19, 2021
"I just knocked out a five-time UFC champion and embarrassed your whole company," Paul said with his statement directed at White. "Please let me get [UFC welterweight champion] Kamaru Usman. Please let me get Diaz. Please let me get Masvidal. Please let me get [Conor] McGregor because I'm going to embarrass them, too. I promise you, Dana."
White remained quiet until the final week of 2021, appearing on Teddy Atlas's podcast, The Fight with Teddy Atlas. When asked for a response to Paul's latest challenge regarding Masvidal and Diaz since they were attending for the fight, White gave the expected response.
“No [that’s not happening],” White said. “You notice he wants to f—ing fight everybody that’s not in his weight class, guys that are older and all of this other bulls—. Go find a boxer. Go hump somebody else’s leg, you goofball.”