BIG DREAMS
Don Moore plans to become the first man to defeat Floyd Mayweather before fighting Jake Paul in Nigeria
Don Moore is confident he will spring a monumental upset when he squares off against boxing legend Floyd Mayweather in Dubai this weekend.
The undefeated boxer, who hasn’t fought since 2016, will face off against Mayweather on top of a helipad in front of a small crowd at Dubai’s Burj-Al Arab hotel on Saturday evening.
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Moore insists he’s taken training seriously ahead of the exhibition bout against his former sparring partner and is intent on knocking out ‘The Best Ever’ at the super exclusive $100,000 per ticket event.
“I'm going to stay on Mayweather’s chest and it's going to be toe to toe action," Moore told
"This is an exhibition, but he's trained hard, I've trained hard. We're going to give the fans a great fight, a great performance.
“This is unfinished business. Floyd knows I'm a problem and he can be beaten like any other fighter I can be the first man to beat Floyd Mayweather. I have the blueprint. Roger Mayweather, Floyds' uncle, prepared me to beat anyone.
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Moore says that on occasions he did get the better of Mayweather in sparring and is confident of replicating that success when it really matters.
“I've been in the ring with Floyd on multiple occasions. I just know how to beat him,” he said.
"Some days he had some great days against me and some days I had some amazing days against him. But this is not sparring.
"This is real live-action boxing. So it's different when you take all the headgear, it's different under the lights."
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After beating arguably, the best fighter of all time, Moore will turn his attention to someone at the opposite end of the scale – Jake Paul – who he wants to fight in Africa.
“I would then like to fight Jake Paul in Nigeria,” Moore said. “I'm focused on this fight first. But after this fight, I will show the world that Jake is just a YouTuber. He's interested in the business of boxing, but he's no boxer.
“I'm a real fighter. I'm a real champ and not pretending. Fight me. You're fighting other guys.
“They're not real boxers. You never fought a real boxer. So fight me. I want to fight Jake Paul - and that's easy work for me. I want to show everybody that he's just a YouTuber and that you can't play boxing.”
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