Jake Paul and Eddie Hearn's love-hate relationship as Taylor-Serrano dust settles

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Jake Paul and Eddie Hearn have a strange relationship. It appears almost, from the outside, like that of a frustrated son attempting to prove himself to his adoring but tough-loving father.Or is it a master and a padawan?

Old school vs new school? Older brother and younger brother? We are struggling to work it out. Back in 2020, Eddie Hearn promoted Jake Paul’s first professional fight.

Just two and a half years later the pair were sat side by side as co-promoters as they watched the first women's boxing card headline at the mecca of Madison Square Gardens.The two have seen their paths interlinked in recent years, with it hard to pin down exactly what their relationship looks like - at least behind closed doors.There have however been some very telling interactions between them in the past weeks alone that offer some insight into their relationship.Ahead of Katie Taylor vs Amanda Serrano, which Hearn and Paul co-promoted, the two top dogs sat around a table together with Ariel Helwani’s on DAZN’s YouTube channel for a chat.Hearn took the opportunity to wind Paul up, calling him “average” in a hilarious but condescending way.The reaction from Paul was instant, a huge nibble on Hearn’s teasing fishing line.

He said: "Don't start this off like that. I beat him in one minute. How do you even assess how good I was?Paul added: “You called me average after one minute of my first professional fight?”Hearn Replied: "No but you are still average.”“That’s not true,” Paul protested. “I just beat a five-time world champion.