{"id":166520,"date":"2025-09-24T17:07:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T17:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/166520\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T17:07:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T17:07:06","slug":"oleksandr-usyk-hints-at-mma-fight-with-jake-paul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/166520\/","title":{"rendered":"Oleksandr Usyk hints at MMA fight with Jake Paul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">By now almost everyone is aware that Jake Paul will be taking on Gervonta \u2018Tank\u2019 Davis in an upcoming exhibition fight, but Paul also took to social media to unveil his five year plan, which included him beating Oleksandr Usyk. Well, Usyk obviously saw Paul\u2019s post and replied with one of his own, telling Paul he\u2019s willing to face him inside the cage once he closes out his boxing career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cGood plan, Jake Paul,\u201d Usyk posted on X. \u201cBut I\u2019m not here for 5th place \u2014 only first. Soon, I\u2019ll close the book on boxing, and after that I\u2019ll be waiting for you in the cage. Let\u2019s see if you\u2019ve got the balls or just hunger for hype.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Usyk, who is the current undisputed heavyweight champion, is currently taking some time off to deal with some lingering injuries following his second stoppage win over Daniel Dubois this past summer. His future in the sport is uncertain with the general thought that he\u2019ll retire sooner than later. Paul, meanwhile, will look to keep his act on the road when he faces a much smaller Davis this November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By now almost everyone is aware that Jake Paul will be taking on Gervonta \u2018Tank\u2019 Davis in an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[711,49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":["post-166520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-boxing-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}