Jake Paul makes public challenge to Carl Froch days before Tommy Fury fight after being branded ‘a clown’ by former champion

Jake Paul has promised to fight Carl Froch if he takes on Anderson Silva on the undercard of his fight with Tommy Fury.

It follows Froch branding Paul 'a clown' just days before the YouTuber-turned boxer faces Fury in the ring.

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After a war of words that has dominated boxing for months, the rivals will finally meet on February 26 at the Diriyah Arena in Saudi Arabia.

But despite taking on a professional boxer for the first time, Paul is the still the subject of criticism, including from British boxing legend Froch.

Paul, though, thinks the former super-middleweight champion is jealous of the money being made "Carl Froch mad because I made more in one year than he made his whole career," he tweeted.

"You want the payday. I get it.

"So let’s do this, fight Anderson Silva on my next card and if you get lucky and beat him, then we can step in the ring and you make your career payday. Let me know."

It follows Froch's claims about YouTubers in the ring, calling it entertainment over sport.

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"I'm including Jake Paul in that, he's not a professional he's an entertainer," he said.

"He's good at it so fair play to him, I've got nothing against him.

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"Just don't call yourself a professional fighter, you're a performing clown as they say."

Froch went on to insist he could make easy work of Paul despite his last fight coming nine years ago, winning his final bout in a rematch against George Groves.

He added: "If a fight with Jake Paul genuinely transpired and he thought to himself, 'Yeah I'll take Froch on', which he never-ever would because it would be ridiculous.

"I might be 45 years old but any retired professional world champion that keeps themselves in good shape would have absolutely no problem playing with Jake Paul.

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"It would be like a mismatch. You'd probably have to train a little bit, just to get the lungs and heart filled up with a bit of air.

"Get yourself so you can do at least two minutes of one round.

"You don't have to worry about doing two or three rounds, but you do need to be able to throw at least 10 punches.

"So yeah I'll get myself in the 10-punch state but it ain't going to happen."

However, he appears to have changed his tune having been made aware of Paul's tweet.

“I think this Sunday your world ends," he said in response.

"If it doesn’t and you are stupid enough to take a fight with me, when this right hand lands on your chin, I will put you into f****** orbit and knock that stupid barnet off the top of your head.”