Jake Paul has gone back-and-forth with UFC CEO Dana White since beginning his boxing journey.

The former Disney star is days away from his next outing in the ring, as Paul fights Julio Cesar Chavez Jr at the Honda Center in Anaheim on June 28.

While the bout will mark Paul’s 12th as a professional, he is still not fully accepted in the sport by many fans and fighters. And familiar criticisms are expected to return to the surface as ‘The Problem Child’ looks to make it six wins on the bounce since his sole loss.

And the two leading unfounded claims used to take away from his boxing career, Paul says, are down to the efforts of White.

Jake Paul says Dana White caused accusations of rigged fights and steroid use

The UFC CEO has been a vocal critic of the Cleveland native’s entry into combat sports, with White taking aim at Paul in the lead-up to his past bouts.

White has largely shared the same sentiment as many of Paul’s detractors, accusing him of hand-picking past-their-prime MMA and boxing veterans whom he’s likely to beat.

But during an appearance on The Iced Coffee Hour, the 28-year-old highlighted some of White’s more serious and “ludicrous” claims.

“Rigged fights and steroids I think is probably the most ludicrous ones,” Paul said. “Dana White started both of those rumors.

“After I beat Mike Tyson, the amount of people saying, ‘This is rigged.’ … The average person doesn’t understand boxing.

“That’s definitely the number one (least deserving criticism).”

White called for Paul to be drug tested during the height of their heated war of words in 2022.

Jake Paul made it his goal to ’embarrass’ Dana White’s UFC fighters

Though Paul’s choice of opposition has often been a tool used by his detractors in their criticism, ‘The Problem Child’ has embraced his MMA fighter-heavy boxing résumé.

To date, the Cleveland native has defeated five cage veterans, with Paul notably knocking out Tyron Woodley and netting decisions over Anderson Silva and Nate Diaz.

In December 2020, early on in his career as a pugilist, Paul hinted that he wouldn’t be letting up in his pursuit of matches against UFC stars.

Paul told ESPN that he wanted to “embarrass” as many of White’s fighters as he could.

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The most recent victim of that ambition was Mike Perry, who was stopped by TKO in round six of his July 2024 fight against Paul.