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Ryan Garcia is throwing down the gauntlet for Jake Paul.

On Saturday night, a furious Garcia took to social media to challenge Paul to a fight following Paul’s first-round knockout victory over Ryan Bourland in Puerto Rico.

Okay enough, it’s on I’m going to have to do this! I’m going to end this JAKE PAUL BOXING THING. BRING IT ON JAKE IM DEAD F****** SERIOUS F*** YOU! HIT MY TEAM UP

“I can’t do this s***,” Garcia said in a follow-up voice message posted on X. “I feel so f****** bad for introducing Jake Paul to boxing. I f***** up. I can’t allow this to happen. I can’t. I can’t. He’s disrespecting my sport. He’s disrespecting everything. I just, I don’t know — call my team, Jake. F*** you.”

Garcia (24-1, 20 KOs) is a former WBC interim lightweight champion who’s scheduled to face Devin Haney in a blockbuster bout for the WBC super lightweight title on April 20. Garcia is significantly smaller than Paul — his matchup with Haney is contested at 140 pounds, whereas Paul’s win over Bourland was contested at 200 pounds — however Garcia would represent, by far, the most experienced boxing opponent Paul has fought.

Paul (9-1, 6 KOs) crushed Bourland in a rout on Saturday, stopping his overmatched foe with a barrage of punches in the closing stages of the opening round. It was Paul’s second straight victory over an opponent with notable boxing experience following his first-round knockout of Andre August in December. Afterward, Paul reiterated his desire to continue testing himself against opponents with greater boxing résumés than himself.

Could Garcia vs. Paul actually be an option next?

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Improving his professional record to 9-1 as a professional over the course of ten outings to the squared circle, polarizing puncher, Jake Paul made incredibly short work of the equally overmatched, Ryan Bourland tonight in San Juan, Puerto Rico — stopping the former Golden Gloves winner with a dominant opening round TKO in their co-main event clash.

Paul, who now rides a run of three consecutive victories, turned in a dominant and completely lopsided win over Noth Dakota native, Bourland in their cruiserweight pairing — with the latter returning to the ring for the first time in two years — following a four year lay-off prior to his comeback.

Fresh from a decision win over UFC alum, Nate Diaz, Ohio native, Paul had landed a first round KO win over Andre August back in December of last year, and scoring his sixth career knockout win, the social media influence overwhelmed Bourland from start to finish before the end of their first round bout.

Wobbling the veteran against the ring ropes, Jake Paul unloaded with a slew of body strikes and hooks upstairs against his compatrior, eventually forcing a stoppage and turning in a first round TKO success.

And following his victory, Paul echoed calls for a future fight with current super middleweight world champion, Canelo Alvarez.

Below, catch the highlights from Jake Paul’s first round win over Ryan Bourland

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Saturday’s Most Valuable Promotions boxing event in San Juan, Puerto Rico was scheduled to be headlined by a title fight between undisputed featherweight world champion Amanda Serrano and Nina Meinke.  Moments before they were supposed to make the walk to the ring, the fight was cancelled.  

MVP put out a press releases explaining that Serrano was not medically cleared due to an eye injury suffered on Friday.  

“Amanda Serrano has unfortunately been declared medically unfit by the Puerto Rican Boxing Commission to fight tonight due to an eye injury she sustained yesterday,” the press release read.  

“She is devastated that she won’t be able to perform in front of her hometown dance, but despite wanting to go out and put on a show, the Commission said there is no way she can fight with her eye in its current condition,” said the statement.  

Both women will receive their fight purse and fans in attendance will be given a refund if they seek it.

Influence-turned professional boxer Jake Paul picked up a first-round knockout win over Ryan Bourland in the co-main event.  It was the second first-round knockout in a row for Paul.  “The Problem Child” improved his record to 9-1.    

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Junior dos Santos has another title to add to his trophy case.

“Cigano” faced Alan Belcher in the main event of Gamebred Bareknuckle MMA 7 on Friday for the promotion’s inaugural heavyweight title. In a bloody battle, dos Santos picked up a nasty second-round TKO stoppage to close the show at the Kia Center in Orlando, Fla.

Belcher came out very aggressive, charging forward to keep dos Santos moving backward. However, the former UFC heavyweight champion used foot movement and patience to try to find his openings, and dos Santos busted Belcher open with the first clean shot he landed. The tide seemed to turn from that moment on.

But Belcher wouldn’t go quietly, as he turned the heat up even more in the second. Eventually, Belcher shot for a takedown, but dos Santos ended up on top in a dominant position, hunting for submissions and landing ground and pound. As soon as Belcher climbed back to his feet, dos Santos delivered the big shot that was the beginning of the end to win the heavyweight championship.

In the co-main event, Chase Sherman took on fellow former UFC competitor Alex Nicholson and exacted revenge around a decade in the making with a brutal knockout victory. Nicholson started out looking sharp, but being undersized at heavyweight against a guy as powerful as Sherman was too much.

Sherman faced Nicholson on the regional scene back in 2014 and Nicholson scored a first-round knockout.

Check out full Gamebred Bareknuckle MMA 7 results below.

• Junior dos Santos def. Alan Belcher via second-round TKO (4:39)
• Chase Sherman def. Alex Nicholson via first-round KO. (3:57) | Watch Finish
• Handesson Ferreira def. Karl Roberson via unanimous decision (30-27 x3)
• TJ Brown def. Mandel Nallo via second-round submission (0:22)
• Jesse Ronson def. Anthony Njokuani via first-round submission (4:26)
• Brandon Jenkins def. Tyler Hill via third-round TKO (2:12)
• Anvar Boynazarov def. Marlon Gonzalez def. via first-round TKO (0:13)
• Joe Penafiel def. Charles Bennett via third-round TKO (3:49)

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Chase Sherman waited a decade to avenge one of the early losses of his professional fighting career, and he did it with vicious style.

The former UFC heavyweight took on Alex Nicholson in the co-main event of Saturday’s Gamebred Bareknuckle MMA 7 card, and after a tough start that saw Nicholson find success, Sherman landed an absolutely brutal right hand that sent Nicholson toppling unconscious to the cage floor.

Check out the vicious first-round knockout from Sherman in the video below.

In 2014, Nicholson knocked Sherman out in the first round in their MMA bout for regional promotion Island Fights.

Since departing the UFC, Sherman has racked up a 2-0 record with two finishes for Jorge Masvidal’s bare-knuckle MMA promotion, as he also stopped Carl Seumanutafa with a nasty elbow in the first round at Gamebred Bareknuckle 6 this past December.

Nicholson wasn’t able to follow up on his 19-second finish at that same event to close the year, but got a lot of respect from Sherman after the fight since he was severely undersized.

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