Jake Paul has made donations to the relief effort in Puerto Rico after the island was ravaged by Hurricane Fiona over the past few days.
The YouTuber-turned-boxer has been living in a £8.8m mansion in Dorado, a southwestern part of Puerto Rico, for his last few training camps, and has had team members affected by the hurricane. Power has been out in the gym where he's training for his upcoming bout with Anderson Silva, but he has continued camp through the issues.
And speaking ahead of Amanda Serrano's unified featherweight title defence against Sarah Mahfoud in Manchester on Saturday night, Paul explained how he would be helping on the island following the devastation. Serrano herself is of Puerto Rican descent, and has spent time training with Paul at his Dorado base.
"We're already trying to make an effort and we have some things going on to help," Paul told Mirror Fighting . "I've donated some money today, actually and I've been affected by it. Not as bad as other parts of the island, but it's definitely very serious and I'm going to do anything I can to help, for sure.
"The power has been out at the gym for the past two days, but luckily there was enough light in the gym naturally to just train that way. It definitely has had an effect and it's sort of slowed us down a bit, but we're already way ahead of schedule in terms of being ready for this fight.
"I'm always training and always ready for a fight, so that mentality and training like that just makes it so that if you have a bad day or you need to take a day off or whatever that you can afford those things. We're not trying to force through training at the last minute."
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Paul wouldn't be drawn on an amount that he has donated and will in future, insisting that he wouldn't have discussed the topic without being prompted. He has already engaged in multiple charitable efforts with his Boxing Bullies organisation in the region prior to the hurricane, but he and his brother Logan remain divisive figures with the locals.
"I don't really want to get into dollar amounts because when people say that when they make donations they just want to get praise from other people. I wasn't even going to talk about it, but you asked, and we're definitely going to donate and help. I know people whose houses are personally affected, they're underwater as we speak. I'm just making efforts to help them."
Paul is in promoter mode this weekend, although he has had to cancel his trip to the AO Arena in Manchester where Serrano defends her belts in the co-main event of Joe Joyce's battle with Joseph Parker on BT Sport Box Office. He is just over a month out from his own boxing return where he faces the legendary UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva on October 29 in Arizona.
