{"id":840776,"date":"2026-08-03T00:01:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T00:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/840776\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T00:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T00:01:10","slug":"leveon-bell-responds-to-jake-pauls-1m-boxing-route-running-challenge-to-nfl-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/840776\/","title":{"rendered":"Le&#8217;Veon Bell Responds to Jake Paul&#8217;s $1M Boxing, Route-Running Challenge to NFL Players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">As Jake Paul continues his <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong mui-mlpnpn\" href=\"https:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/25460451-ryan-clark-calls-out-jake-pauls-audacity-about-playing-nfl-new-trending-video\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">campaign<\/a> to convince anybody who will listen that he could play slot receiver in the NFL\u2014or at least thinks he would be better at football than NFL players would be at boxing\u2014Le&#8217;Veon Bell has chimed in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Bell, 34, played eight seasons in the NFL as a running back and has transitioned to boxing as a second career, going 2-0 in exhibition matches and 2-1 as a professional boxer. He would likely put a quick end to Paul&#8217;s absurd stance. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Jake Paul continues his campaign to convince anybody who will listen that he could play slot receiver&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":840777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-840776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840776","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=840776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/840777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}