{"id":285597,"date":"2025-07-23T16:10:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T16:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/285597\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T16:10:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T16:10:10","slug":"jake-paul-now-wants-to-fight-american-former-heavyweight-champion-with-43-knockouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/285597\/","title":{"rendered":"Jake Paul Now Wants To Fight American Former Heavyweight Champion With 43 Knockouts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jake Paul<\/a> is currently eyeing up his next opponent.<\/p>\n

\u2018The Problem Child\u2019 was in action last month when defeating former WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr by unanimous decision<\/a>, and has now been linked with a shock showdown against ex-unified heavyweight king Anthony Joshua<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Both sides have said they are open to the clash, with Saudi chief Turki Alalshikh claiming that Paul has already agreed to the fight<\/a>, but there could be another former world heavyweight champion that the YouTuber-turned-boxer is now targeting.<\/p>\n

That man in question is Deontay Wilder<\/a>, the former WBC heavyweight champion who got back to winning ways earlier this summer with a stoppage win over Tyrrell Herndon.<\/p>\n

Prior to that, \u2018The Bronze Bomber\u2019 had lost four of his last five fights, but most fight fans would still believe that he has far too much for Paul if they were to indeed meet.<\/p>\n

Wilder\u2019s former trainer Malik Scott has now commented on the potential match-up, telling Thunderpick<\/a> that he\u2019s spoken to Paul\u2019s team and they seem serious about the clash.<\/p>\n

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\u201cJake is dead serious about the Deontay Wilder fight. I\u2019ve been in New York for the Katie Taylor fight and I just met Jake Paul\u2019s partner [Nakisa Bidarian], literally three minutes ago. And the first thing he said was, \u2018we\u2019re interested in the Deontay Wilder fight\u2019. He asked me, \u2018what do I think of it?\u2019 They\u2019re just so serious. Some of the things that he said confidently to me, really makes you know that they\u2019re not fake confident, they really are confident [in defeating Wilder].<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know if it will ever materialise into something, but they\u2019re on to something, this whole Jake Paul thing, and I believe the key to their success is timing. But we\u2019re talking about Jake in the ring with Deontay Wilder, it just makes no sense at all. But unfortunately Jake Paul is a big money guy in the sport of boxing right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

With Paul expected to return to the ring before the end of the year, a decision on his next opponent will be expected soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jake Paul is currently eyeing up his next opponent. \u2018The Problem Child\u2019 was in action last month when…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-285597","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114903425090101622","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}