Jake Paul has spent more than three years trying to talk his way back into a ring with the one man who beat him. On Sunday, Tommy Fury handed him the easiest material of his career, and Paul cashed it in within hours.
The setup came from X, where the account @GreatBritishMC posted a video it said showed Fury getting kicked out of a Halloween event for allegedly being too drunk and trying to kiss actors. Bloody Elbow reported the attraction was in the United Kingdom and that the footage shows Fury stumbling toward the exit with security behind him. The word allegedly is carrying a lot of weight here, and nothing in the reporting so far includes a statement from Fury or the event. The internet did not wait for one. Neither did Paul.
He quoted the clip and wrote: “Molly-Mae runs a business, raises the kids and pays the bills. Tommy’s job was to not get kicked out of a haunted house. Couldn’t do it”
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I’ll be honest. That’s a great tweet. It has a real setup, a payoff that turns a goofy viral clip into a shot at Fury’s whole résumé, and a three-word closer that lands like a check hook. Comedy Central roast writers get paid real money to build jokes with that structure. Paul did it with his thumbs on a Sunday afternoon.
The funnier part is how quickly he came back to this well.
The List Fury Wasn’t On
Just over a week ago, Paul rolled out his 15-fight plan, a wildly ambitious hit list that included Tom Aspinall and Francis Ngannou. Fury’s name was nowhere on it. Bloody Elbow floated the idea that Paul might finally be putting the rivalry to bed, which seemed reasonable. If your stated targets are a UFC heavyweight champion and the man who made a career out of putting people to sleep, you probably don’t have time for a guy you fought in 2023.
Then one shaky phone video drops and the 29-year-old is right back in Fury’s mentions like an ex who swears he’s over it but still watches every Instagram story.
That tells you everything about where this rivalry lives in Paul’s head. Fury handed him his first professional loss in Saudi Arabia, and every big-name callout Paul makes since then sits next to that asterisk. He can chase Aspinall in his notes app all he wants. Fury is the guy who actually beat him, and Paul knows a rematch with him is the only fight that can erase that line on his record. He’s never stopped campaigning for it, and Sunday’s tweet was more of the same campaign, just with better jokes.
I love it, frankly. Paul is a great villain. He picks a target, says the meanest funny thing available, and dares the other guy to do something about it. That’s the job description.
Fury Keeps Leaving the Door Open
Here’s my problem, and it’s mostly with Fury. The joke only works because Fury keeps giving Paul empty air to fill.
The 27-year-old’s most recent appearance came this past June against Eddie Hall, a strongman who walked in with a 108-pound weight advantage. Fury took a majority decision. Fine, he won, and props for surviving a fight that looked like a video game glitch. But a majority decision over a strongman is the kind of result that makes people ask more questions about your future. The working assumption was that Fury would return later this year under the Misfits banner. Bloody Elbow now reports he won’t fight again in 2026.
So the man holding the win over Paul hasn’t faced a real boxer in a while, has no announced date, and just went viral for the wrong kind of exit. Of course Paul is teeing off. Fury has given him nothing else to talk about.
I’m not going to pile on about a guy allegedly having too many drinks at a haunted house. Plenty of 27-year-olds have done worse in October, and the scare actors probably have a story to tell their friends. The drinking is beside the point. The calendar is what matters. A fighter with momentum shrugs a clip like this off because he has a fight week coming and nobody remembers the video by the weigh-ins. A fighter with no date gets defined by whatever the last viral thing was.
Fury still owns the most important fact in this whole saga. He beat Jake Paul, and no tweet changes the scorecards from Saudi Arabia. But a win you never put back on the line slowly turns into a trivia answer, and Paul is very good at making trivia answers look small. Every month Fury sits out, Paul gets to frame the story: he’s the active one with the 15-fight plan, and Fury is the guy security walked out of a Halloween attraction.
If Fury wants to win this exchange, the reply is a signed contract, because nothing he types on X is going to top “Couldn’t do it.”
Paul’s list has 15 names on it. Fury, per the latest reports, has zero fights left on his 2026 schedule. The internet has already decided which of those two numbers is funnier.
