Jake Paul booed at UFC 261 after getting spotted in crowd

UFC followers noticed Jake Paul within the crowd at UFC 261, the primary mixed-martial-arts occasion within the US with a full-capacity since March 2020, and the stadium instantly erupted with boos and chants, adopted by a short confrontation with Daniel Cormier.

Jake Paul shocked the world when he knocked out Ben Askren to win the Triller Battle Membership PPV and earn an enormous payday.

Since then, he’s been doing his greatest to stir the pot, and it’s working. It’s even reached the purpose the place UFC President Dana White threatened to take authorized motion if he retains calling out UFC fighters.

To maintain the momentum going, he attended UFC 261, which isn’t any shock since he seems to be pals with Jorge Masvidal, who’s preventing Kamaru Usman in the principle occasion for the Welterweight title.

Jake Paul celebrates after defeating Ben Askren.

Nevertheless, he most likely didn’t anticipate to be greeted with a symphony of boos and chants. It began in the course of the preliminary card when Randy Brown was about to seal the deal towards Alex Oliveira.

The struggle was nonetheless underway when the group chanted “f*ck Jake Paul” out of nowhere. Jake responded by flipping everybody off in the course of the chants, which prompted everybody to boo him into oblivion.

Jake Paul getting booed at UFC261 pic.twitter.com/mMjGxf1RQq

— Def Noodles (@defnoodles) April 25, 2021

Daniel Cormier confronts Jake Paul at UFC 261 after struggle callout

The chants and boos had been so loud, they swept throughout the stadium very quickly in any respect and even caught the eye of commentators Joe Rogan and Daniel Cormier, the latter of which Jake referred to as fats and mentioned he would “beat the f*ck out of.” 

Shortly after, Daniel Cormier confronted him, and the 2 exchanged what seemed to be heated phrases earlier than safety workers escorted him again to the commentary desk. The chants by no means stopped all through the entire debacle.

Video of Daniel Cormier confronting Jake Paul. pic.twitter.com/S3AknQ0Qzb

— Def Noodles (@defnoodles) April 25, 2021

Jake has been taking part in the ‘heel’ position completely prior to now couple of years, and his look at UFC 261 matches into the narrative fairly effectively.

Ultimately, he desires to maintain the highlight on him, for higher and for worse, so as to add extra hype to his fights.