Jake Paul walked away from the Amalie Area in Tampa, Florida with a giant win over “Platinum” Mike Perry, however one in every of his Most Useful Promotions prospects didn’t fare as properly.
Paul has been pushing Ashton “H2O” Sylve exhausting for the final two years, reserving the slick 20 12 months outdated on MVP undercards for his final 5 fights. Sylve gained the primary 4, then was on his method to successful the fifth on Saturday in opposition to Lucas Bahdi … then issues went horribly flawed within the sixth spherical.
Bahdi was getting picked aside all the battle with Sylve, however he stayed in there and stored mixing issues up. That payed off when he landed a giant proper that clearly damage “H2O.” Bahdi didn’t let up and hit Sylve with a combo that put his opponent face first to the canvas in a KO of the 12 months candidate.
It was a shocking end result for Sylva and his workforce, however the 20 12 months outdated took the primary lack of his twelve battle profession with grace.
“God’s plan,” Sylve wrote on an Instagram Story shortly after the loss. “The whole lot occurs for a purpose. Must take your losses such as you take your wins.”
He then shared a lot of supportive tales from household and pals.
“Buddy was placing on a boxing clinic,” comic Minikon mentioned in a single. “I’m all the time impressed together with your expertise, Ashton.”
Throughout the occasion’s post-fight press convention, Jake Paul shared his assist for Sylve.
“He might simply take a look at what I did and simply come again stronger,” he mentioned. “Double down. That’s a lesson for everybody on the market: what do you do whenever you take losses in life? You double down. You return to the drafting board and you retain going. You solely lose whenever you stop. That’s a Mike Tyson quote.”
Boxing isn’t as forgiving of dangerous losses as MMA is, so we’ll must see how Sylve recovers from this loss. If Paul sticks by him and retains pushing him like he has with different fighters on his roster, he might bounce again. Nevertheless it’ll be exhausting to erase the reminiscence of him getting flatlined in Tampa.