Coach Luiz Dorea: Jake Paul Will ‘Repent’ for Having Accepted Anderson Silva Fight

Those close to all-time great Anderson Silva believe that Jake Paul is making a grave error by taking a fight with him.

Right after the boxing match of Silva and Paul was announced for October 29 at a currently undetermined location rumored to be in Arizona, Sherdog spoke to Silva’s boxing coach, Luiz Dorea, in Las Vegas. Dorea is quite a hot commodity in the boxing world, as he will not even get to start training Silva until after his pupil and 2016 Olympic champ Robson Conceicao (17-1, 8 KOs) faces American Shakur Stevenson, in Newark, N.J., at the end of September. The Conceicao-Stevenson match will be for the WBC, WBO and “The Ring” super featherweight titles, and Dorea has his hands full preparing his fighter for that contest.

“We came to Vegas to have two weeks of sparring here,” Dorea explained. “We know it will be a war [between Stevenson and Conceicao], we are going to face the champion on his homeland, but Robson is very well prepared.”

The day after that fight, Sept. 24, Dorea will depart Newark for Silva’s camp, which will be held in Los Angeles. The coach will not travel alone, as he will bring with him both Conceicao and 2020 Olympic gold medalist Hebert Conceicao, who competes around 165 pounds generally.

“We will leave Newark straight to LA,” Coach Dorea explained. “I just talked to Anderson, he is really motivated to October 29.”

Unlike Silva’s May match with fellow MMA-expat Bruno Machado, the fight with Paul will be under professional boxing rules. It is expected to take place around Silva’s more familiar weight category of 85kg, or about 187 pounds.

“What Anderson just told me is that it would be professional boxing rules,” he said. “Eight rounds of three minutes [each] with 10-ounce gloves, and, of course, with knockouts being allowed. The weight, if I’m not wrong, will be 85kg.”

The well-regarded boxing trainer made no bones about who he is expecting to come out on top in this clash.

“Jake is a talented kid, no doubt, but he never faced a real striker,” Dorea said flatly. “Anderson is a different athlete. He is [an] orthodox fighter that fights as a southpaw, so he has power in both hands. He moves very well and has amazing [footwork] and distance control.”

When asked to predict a specific result, Dorea believed a knockout was entirely possible, but guaranteed his job is to make Silva ready to box eight rounds.

“We always say that the knockout is a consequence of a well-done job, never the main goal,” Dorea analyzed. “Anderson made his [return to boxing] against Julio Cesar Chaves, a former world champion with more than 50 fights, winning clearly at his home; right after that, he knocked out Tito Ortiz in the 1st round. Then he did an exhibition fight against Bruno [Machado].”

Dorea continued, “I believe in a great win from Anderson Silva. Jake Paul never faced a fighter [at] that technical level. Anderson is 47 years old but boxes like a 25-year-old boy. Besides technical preparation, Jake must be [mentally] well-prepared when he will have on the other side [of the ring] the best MMA fighter of all time. The experience, the ability and technique of Anderson Silva will be a turning point. If everything goes as planned, Jake Paul will end up repenting himself for having accepted that fight.”