{"id":33649,"date":"2025-07-30T06:18:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T06:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/33649\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T06:18:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T06:18:05","slug":"fed-up-jake-pauls-superstar-rumored-next-opponent-reportedly-retires-from-boxing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/33649\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Fed up’\u2026 Jake Paul’s superstar rumored next opponent reportedly retires from boxing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Jake Paul may need to look for a new opponent after his most-rumored next rival reportedly decided to hang up his gloves.<\/p>\n

Paul recently defeated former middleweight world champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr<\/a> in a gruelling ten-round affair that earned him a ranking in the WBA top 15. It was a controversial placement, which he stoked by facing off with WBA champion Gilberto \u2018Zurdo\u2019 Ramirez<\/a> following their event in California.<\/p>\n

Despite now being eligible to fight Ramirez for a belt and entering talks for an Anthony Joshua<\/a> fight, he was expected to face a totally different opponent when he returns in November or December. But amid a string of issues outside of the ring, it looks as though those plans may be changing.<\/p>\n

Gervonta Davis\u2019 retirement could cost Jake Paul his next fight<\/p>\n

On Tuesday evening, veteran boxing insider Rick Glaser reported on X that Gervonta Davis<\/a> is retiring from boxing at the age of just 30-years-old. The Baltimore native has been due to rematch Lamont Roach, who held him to a draw earlier this year, but their planned August bout is supposedly now off.<\/p>\n

\"GervontaPhoto by Al Bello\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom several very reliable sources, Baltimore\u2019s finest Tank Davis is retiring,\u201d Glaser wrote in. \u201cWon\u2019t fight again is what he\u2019s telling those close to him. Tank\u2019s supposedly fed up with Boxing. Tank\u2019s retired till his money runs low.\u201d<\/p>\n

There had been widespread reports that Davis was going to face Jake Paul<\/a> in an exhibition bout later this year. The fight would have placed career-lightweight Davis against a man who last year fought at heavyweight in a bizarre openweight contest, likely to have landed on Netflix.<\/p>\n

Jake Paul and Gervonta Davis have been reported to fight in exhibition bout<\/p>\n

Many boxing insiders have claimed throughout the year that Davis was heading towards having a bizarre exhibition with Paul towards the end of 2025. He has been pushing for a bout with Anthony Joshua, who is an active former heavyweight champion, but insists that must take place next year.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

As recently as back in March when Davis was held to a draw by Lamont Roach, Paul claims the bout was \u2018on the one-yard line\u2019. \u201cThat was on the one yard as well, but he has to rematch Lamont Roach,\u201d Paul said at the time. \u201cHe wants to get that back. Then we will be back in discussions with Mr. Gervonta.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now, he may have to look elsewhere for an opponent in November, particularly if he refuses to face Joshua until next year. Paul is also keen to fight Badou Jack next year for the WBC cruiserweight world title.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jake Paul may need to look for a new opponent after his most-rumored next rival reportedly decided to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,25475,5277,25476,82],"class_list":["post-33649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-gervonta-davis","tag-jake-paul","tag-julio-cesar-chavez-jr","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33649","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=33649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}