Jake Paul took another swing at Dana White and the UFC business model, this time dragging in Jon Jones, fighter pay, and the White House card. Speaking on Theo Von’s podcast, Paul said the promotion got greedy and claimed the product is slipping. His rant also landed while the White House card was already drawing attention after Ilia Topuria’s recent comments about Justin Gaethje.
Paul went straight at White’s choices and the White House lineup.
“Not smart enough. … Just look at what he’s doing! You don’t get Jon Jones on the White House card? First of all, Justin Gaethje is going to lose to Ilia [Topuria] on the White House card. So you have a Spaniard beating a white American on the patriotic White House card? Big mistake. Why are you not going to pay Jon Jones? They’ve gotten greedy, and they’ve forgotten their hearts as a company.”
Watch the full interview below.
Paul kept returning to money. He framed the White House card as another example of the UFC passing on a bigger move and tied that back to the same pay criticism that has followed the company for years. Fighter compensation has been one of the central issues in his ongoing feud with the UFC, and he used this appearance to hammer that point again. The White House booking debate had already spilled into Islam Makhachev’s dispute with Ilia Topuria over how that fight talk fell apart.
Jake Paul also called the UFC product boring
Paul did not stop at money or card construction. He also argued that the in-cage product has become less appealing when elite wrestlers take over divisions with control-heavy styles.
“It’s dying, because the best people in the sport become wrestlers and they just hold on. Look at Khabib, Khamzat. Boring! No one wants that … who has Paramount?”
That line will get pushback, especially with names like Khabib Nurmagomedov and Khamzat Chimaev attached to it. Chimaev remains one of the division’s most dangerous pressure fighters, even as he continues talking about how much money he can make outside the promotion, as seen in his recent comments on earning millions beyond the UFC. Paul is clearly aiming at a broader fan complaint about card depth, booking, and what people expect from marquee UFC events.
This is also not the first time Paul has gone after White and the UFC’s pay model. He has repeatedly tried to make fighter compensation part of his running feud with the promotion, which is why this latest rant fits into the same lane. Whether readers agree with the “dying” label or not, his broader point stayed fixed on fighter pay, star treatment, and whether the UFC is making the biggest fights when it has the chance. The same debate over how stars are used remains active whenever names like Jon Jones stay tied to headlines without getting booked into the biggest available moment.
