{"id":389595,"date":"2026-01-03T19:37:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T19:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/389595\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T19:37:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T19:37:12","slug":"jake-paul-drops-out-of-wba-cruiserweight-rankings-after-loss-to-anthony-joshua-boxing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/389595\/","title":{"rendered":"Jake Paul drops out of WBA cruiserweight rankings after loss to Anthony Joshua | Boxing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Jake Paul has fallen out of the World Boxing Association\u2019s cruiserweight rankings after his sixth-round knockout loss to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/anthony-joshua\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anthony Joshua<\/a> last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The YouTuber was stopped by the former two-time heavyweight champion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/dec\/20\/jake-paul-anthony-joshua-artless-spectacle-robbed-boxing-democratic-dream\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in a scheduled eight-round bout in Miami<\/a>, where Joshua scored four knockdowns before the referee halted the contest in the sixth round. Paul <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/dec\/20\/anthony-joshua-tyson-fury-fight-jake-paul-broken-jaw\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">suffered a broken jaw in two places<\/a> and required surgery after the fight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Paul (12-2, 7 KOs) had entered the WBA\u2019s cruiserweight rankings at No 14 in July after defeating Julio C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez Jr by unanimous decision in Anaheim, California. He was listed at No 15 entering the bout against Joshua, despite the fight taking place at heavyweight and carrying no ranking implications in that division.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The loss was Paul\u2019s first defeat since losing a split decision to Tommy Fury in 2023 and ended his brief run in the WBA\u2019s top 15.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Joshua, who was returning after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2024\/sep\/21\/daniel-dubois-demolishes-anthony-joshua-in-blistering-display\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">knockout loss to Daniel Dubois<\/a> in September 2024, said afterwards that his aim was to \u201cpin [Paul] down and hurt him\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jake Paul has fallen out of the World Boxing Association\u2019s cruiserweight rankings after his sixth-round knockout loss to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-389595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}