Jake Paul is preventing again.
The social influencer turned boxer has answered a lawsuit filed towards him by Eddie Hearn and Matchroom Boxing with a countersuit searching for punitive and compensatory damages together with authorized charges. Paul filed the lawsuit by way of his attorneys in paperwork filed within the southern district of New York on Tuesday.
The unique lawsuit filed by Hearn and his promotional firm alleged that Paul made defamatory statements that Matchroom Boxing “bribed” Glenn Feldman — a boxing choose — “to affect the result of two boxing matches that he refereed.”
The boxing matches in query had been the Katie Taylor vs. Amanda Serrano struggle and a matchup between Oleksandr Usyk and Anthony Joshua. Paul’s firm Most Worthwhile Promotion represents Serrano whereas Hearn represents Taylor.
In his countersuit, Paul denied lots of the allegations within the grievance filed towards him whereas laying out his protection to these claims.
He then detailed his trigger for the countersuit towards Hearn and Matchroom Boxing whereas claiming that the unique lawsuit filed was an “intimidation tactic to relax Jake Paul’s freedom of speech and to silence different critics of the boxing business.”
Paul is searching for “reimbursement of his attorneys’ charges, compensatory damages, and punitive damages designed to forestall Matchroom from additional utilizing costly and time-consuming litigation to stifle the free speech of journalists, media organizations, and anybody else talking on problems with public curiosity.”
Within the unique interview, Paul referred to as foul on Feldman for scorecards he delivered within the Serrano vs. Taylor struggle in addition to Usyk vs. Joshua.
“Clearly [Glenn Feldman] is getting paid cash by Matchroom Boxing,” Paul stated referencing Hearn’s promotion that reps each Taylor and Joshua. “It’s simply so blatantly apparent and so they’re not even attempting to cover it.”
Hearn and Matchroom filed the lawsuit towards Paul with Feldman really becoming a member of as a co-plaintiff.
Paul had beforehand filed a movement to dismiss the lawsuit, which was denied, and a pre-trial convention was set for Oct. 16.
Now Paul is definitely countersuing together with a request to have the unique lawsuit dismissed with out prejudice.
