{"id":8263,"date":"2025-07-20T11:12:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T11:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/8263\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T11:12:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T11:12:11","slug":"jake-paul-calls-out-oleksandr-usyk-for-mma-match-for-the-world-after-dubois-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/8263\/","title":{"rendered":"Jake Paul Calls Out Oleksandr Usyk for &#8216;MMA Match for the World&#8217; After Dubois Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Jake Paul called out Oleksandr Usyk after the Ukrainian heavyweight defeated Daniel Dubois on Saturday at Wembley Stadium in London, England. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">&#8220;I respect you a lot,&#8221; Paul wrote in a post on X. &#8220;Now we do an MMA match for the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Usyk became the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world following his fifth-round knockout victory over Dubois. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Usyk improved to 24-0 with 15 knockouts following Saturday&#8217;s result, with his last six wins coming against Dubois, Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">As for Paul, he owns a 12-1 record during his budding boxing career. His most recent fight was a victory over Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. by unanimous decision in June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">While a boxing match between Usyk and Paul would likely be one-sided, the undisputed world heavyweight champion has\u00a0<a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/25178675-oleksandr-usyk-teases-possible-jake-paul-mma-fight-instagram-photo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">teased<\/a>\u00a0an MMA clash between the two.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Sergey Lapin, Usyk&#8217;s team director, previously discussed the possibility as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">\u201cUsyk has always cared only about fighting the best and creating a lasting legacy in the great sport of boxing,\u201d Lapin said, via\u00a0<a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/2025\/03\/24\/boxing-champ-oleksandr-usyk-is-open-to-fighting-jake-paul-on-one-surprising-condition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Curtis Calhoun<\/a>\u00a0of Bloody Elbow. \u201cBut in the future, as he further solidifies his place as one of the true great fighters, we\u2019ll see what other opportunities open up for him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">\u201cIt might be great to step into the cage with Jake Paul under MMA rules, it would be interesting if there is money to be made from it,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Paul has notched boxing victories over former MMA stars such as Tyron Woodley, Anderson Silva and Nate Diaz, but hasn&#8217;t competed in MMA during his career in combat sports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jake Paul called out Oleksandr Usyk after the Ukrainian heavyweight defeated Daniel Dubois on Saturday at Wembley Stadium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-8263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8263","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=8263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}