{"id":921697,"date":"2026-10-09T10:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T10:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/921697\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T10:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T10:00:10","slug":"jake-paul-cleared-after-anthony-joshua-knockout-eyes-ufc-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/921697\/","title":{"rendered":"Jake Paul cleared after Anthony Joshua knockout, eyes UFC stars"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jake
\nPaul<\/a> has been medically cleared to return to boxing after
\nrecovering from the broken jaw he suffered in his knockout loss to
\nAnthony
\nJoshua<\/a> last year, according to his promoter.<\/p>\n


\nMost Valuable Promotions<\/a> co-founder Nakisa Bidarian announced
\nThursday that Paul had been cleared to return to the ring. The
\nYouTuber-turned-boxer also shared a list of potential fights
\nspanning boxing and mixed martial arts, including matchups with
\nseveral current and former
\nUltimate Fighting Championship<\/a> athletes.<\/p>\n

Jake Paul names Conor McGregor, Sean Strickland and Francis
\nNgannou as possible opponents
\n
\nPaul hasn\u2019t competed since Joshua stopped him in the sixth round in
\nDecember 2025. The defeat left \u201cThe Problem Child\u201d with a broken
\njaw that required surgery, followed by a second procedure in
\nFebruary.<\/p>\n

\u201cJake Paul has been cleared to return to the boxing ring,\u201d Bidarian
\nwrote on X.<\/p>\n

Paul\u2019s list included Canelo Alvarez, Ryan Garcia and Francis
\nNgannou<\/a>. He also named KSI, Sean
\nStrickland<\/a>, Conor
\nMcGregor<\/a>, Nate Diaz<\/a>,
\nDarren
\nTill<\/a>, Edgar Berlanga and Tom
\nAspinall<\/a>, among others.<\/p>\n

\u201cI gotta be honest, unless things change with the UFC I’m kinda
\nover it,\u201d Strickland wrote on X. \u201cMcGregor makes 30 million to
\nfight for 30 seconds and they don’t want to pay us a fraction of
\nit. Contemplating just going to 205 [pounds], knocking out my
\ncontract and scrapping with [Jake Paul]. That sounds fun.\u201d<\/p>\n

Paul, who has long called on the UFC to increase fighter pay,
\nresponded to Strickland\u2019s post.<\/p>\n

\u201cSean Strickland, I see your texts but are you out of contract?\u201d
\nPaul wrote on X. \u201cTell your ‘promoter’ to call MVP.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before I rest\u2026 Canelo Alvarez Francis
\nNgannou<\/a> Conor
\nMcGregor<\/a> (Boxing & MMA) Sean
\nStrickland<\/a> Darren Till<\/a>
\nRyan
\nGarcia<\/a> KSI Chris Eubank Edgar Berlanga Tom
\nAspinall<\/a> (Boxing) Deontay
\nWilder<\/a> Nate Diaz<\/a>
\n(MMA) Midget who ruined our fight World Title Make it happen
\n@nakisabidarian<\/p>\n

\u2014 Jake
\nPaul<\/a> (@jakepaul)
\nOctober 8, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

I gotta be honest unless things change with
\nthe UFC Im kinda over it. McGregor makes 30 million to fight for 30
\nsecond and they dont want to pay us a fraction of it. Contemplating
\njust going to 205 knocking out my contract and scrapping with
\n@jakepaul That sounds fun.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Sean
\nStrickland<\/a> (@SStricklandMMA)
\nOctober 7, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

Jake Paul<\/a> has
\nbeen cleared to return to the boxing ring\ud83d\ude80<\/p>\n

\u2014 Nakisa Bidarian (@nakisa_bidarian)
\nOctober 8, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

Sean
\nStrickland<\/a> I see your texts but are you out of contract? Tell
\nyour \u201cpromoter\u201d to call MVP<\/p>\n

\u2014 Jake
\nPaul<\/a> (@jakepaul)
\nOctober 8, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jake Paul has been medically cleared to return to boxing after recovering from the broken jaw he suffered…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":921698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[4225,64,63,802,44,85],"class_list":["post-921697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-article","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921697","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=921697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/921698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}