Jake Paul has deleted an X post claiming Ryan Garcia “just lost Paramount $10’s of millions,” a shot that also hit the WBC welterweight champion with a “white powder” line after Paul jumped into Garcia’s online feud with Terence Crawford.
Screenshots of the post spread across X before it disappeared. Paul wrote:
Brother you need to stop the bulls***. Crawford would take you down in two seconds and beat your a** in the streets. And so would I. You just lost Paramount $10’s of millions. Only thing your the face of is that white powder.
Most Valuable Promotions, the company Paul co-founded, pushed the post with a “Jake Paul has entered the chat” message, then removed that too, according to World Boxing News. The outlet said it has seen no evidence supporting any implication in the “white powder” remark. It’s unclear why either post came down.
Paul has gone there before. After Garcia called him out in March 2024, Paul told his post-fight press conference that Garcia was “doing some cocaine.” Garcia had denied similar accusations from Devin Haney days earlier.
Crawford Started This One
The exchange Paul crashed began on September 18, when the retired Crawford questioned whether Garcia’s trash talk survives away from the internet.
@RyanGarcia only talk tuff for the internet. He’s know it’s all for show. I promise if I seen him without his security guards and the cameras he’ll be a complete different person. He say I’m a bully but I was the one they got for the bullies.
Garcia fired back with an open invitation.
Crawford’s answer was short: “When u ready im retired so we gotta do it out of the ring.”
Crawford retired last December at 42-0, three months after beating Canelo Alvarez for the undisputed super middleweight title. He has kept waving off comeback talk, including Dana White’s pitch that the right fight could bring him back, even with Turki Alalshikh reportedly interested in Crawford vs. Garcia.
Garcia has made it personal from his side too. He told Ariel Helwani that Crawford is “jealous of me,” adding, “I’ll beat the jealous out of you.”
The Paramount Question
Paul’s money jab lands in the middle of a live argument over Garcia’s September 12 win. Garcia stopped Conor Benn in the second round at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, his first defense of the WBC welterweight title he took from Mario Barrios in February. The Zuffa Boxing card streamed on Paramount+ at no extra cost to subscribers.
The UFC shared a sellout crowd of 18,855 and a gate of $8,030,075.85. The TV side is murkier. When a viral post claimed the show flopped for Paramount+, Garcia called it “FALSE.” Dave Meltzer also pushed back, saying the event was top ten in many countries, including the U.S., on the Saturday it aired, but not on the Sunday replay.
Paramount was reported in January to be paying Zuffa Boxing $100 million for 12 cards. Paul didn’t say where his “tens of millions” figure came from.
The business history between the two runs deeper than one post. After Paul’s exhibition with Gervonta Davis fell apart last year, Paul’s side reportedly chased Garcia with an offer around $20 million. Garcia took the Barrios title shot instead, telling Shannon Sharpe he didn’t want to be a fighter who only chases money.
