Jake Paul called out unified heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk for his controversial victory over Rico Verhoeven on Saturday.<\/p>\n
After Usyk won via 11th-round TKO when referee Mark Lyson called off the fight just as the bell sounded, Paul took to social media to declare, “Bro you lost that s–t.”<\/p>\n
Paul also replied to a post Usyk made and directly told him, “You should never feel like you won this fight. Embarrassing”<\/p>\n
Paul also threw some shade toward former UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou, whom he has been eyeing as a future opponent.<\/p>\n
Verhoeven, who is a former Glory Kickboxing heavyweight champion and one of the greatest kickboxers of all time, surprisingly gave Usyk a tough test during their showdown in front of the pyramids of Giza, Egypt. According to ESPN’s Andreas Hale<\/a>, two judges scored the fight 95-95 while a third judge saw it 96-94 in favor of Verhoeven at the time of the stoppage.<\/p>\n It seems that Paul wasn’t impressed with Usyk’s performance, but he will have to wait a while before he can steal any shine from the heavyweight champ. Paul is recovering<\/a> from a broken jaw suffered in his knockout loss against Anthony Joshua in December. Most Valuable Promotions co-founder Nakisa Bidarian told B\/R<\/a> that the 29-year-old is eyeing a return to the ring by the end of 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jake Paul called out unified heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk for his controversial victory over Rico Verhoeven on Saturday.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":692023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-692022","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\/692022","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=692022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}