Jake Paul explains his training regime and strict diet for Anderson Silva fight

Jake Paul has outlined the “tough diet” and intense training regime he’s been on to prepare for his fight with Anderson Silva.

The YouTuber-turned-boxer weighed in at career-low weight for the sixth fight of his professional career against UFC legend Silva tonight, stepping on the scale at 186.4lb. 47-year-old Silva looked to have had no issues making the weight having fought at 185lb for most of his UFC career. Paul admitted his diet for the fight has been tough but insisted he could make the light-heavyweight limit if he put himself though an MMA-style weight cut.

“Breakfast is just an omelette with one piece of toast. Sometimes I’ll skip lunch. I’m not really a big lunch person,” he said. “It makes me tired and that makes me drop in weight. I’ll usually have a snack and some fruit and the snack is a high in fibre protein bar. Dinner is chicken or steak with quinoa, or quinoa with fish. Not a lot of carbs.

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“So it’s been a really tough diet coming down to 187 but we’re wanting to do it the right way. Where I can wake up the morning of the weigh-in and have pasta if I want to. I could get to 175 next week if I wanted to do an MMA style weight-cut. But we cut the weight ahead of time so I never have to sit in the sauna and steam room and I’ll actually be the same weight.”

Paul has knocked out every professional opponent he’s faced, but cancelled fights with Tommy Fury and Hasim Rahman Jr earlier this year have kept him out of the ring for 10 months. The 25-year-old has put himself through a similar training regime that ring legend Floyd Mayweather utilised during his career, sparring late in the evening to mimic the time he will step in the ring on fight night whilst waking up in the early hours of the afternoon.

“Lots of sleep. I usually wake up around 1 p.m,” he added. “We train a lot at night. We spar at night. We try to mimic fight night. Waking up and doing some kind of workout at night if I’m not sparring at night. That could be mitts, shadow boxing and then after that we do abs and we’ll go for a jog or weight training. Then it’s recovery and I have a stretch therapist. Then I go into a red-light bed. Then I come home, drink protein and then I go into the ice bath, then hot tub and back to ice bath. That usually recharges me right away.”