{"id":363742,"date":"2025-12-23T12:23:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T12:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/363742\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T12:23:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T12:23:24","slug":"jake-paul-asks-fans-who-his-next-boxing-fight-should-be-against-after-ko-vs-joshua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/363742\/","title":{"rendered":"Jake Paul Asks Fans Who His Next Boxing Fight Should Be Against After KO vs. Joshua"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">After his knockout loss against former unified heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua on Friday, Jake Paul is looking for advice on what&#8217;s next.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Paul posted a series of photos from the fight <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DSf1McekZP-\/?img_index=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">on Instagram<\/a> and wrote in the caption that he plans to continue his boxing career in the cruiserweight division, asking fans who they think his next opponent should be.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">&#8220;Great experience. I love this sport. Time to rest, recover and return to cruiserweight,&#8221; Paul wrote. &#8220;Who do you want to see me fight?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">It&#8217;s likely that Paul will be out of the ring for a while, as his jaw was broken in two places when Joshua knocked him out in the sixth round of their main-event fight in Miami on Netflix. He announced that he underwent successful surgery on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Prior to his fight against Joshua, Paul <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\/25323278-jake-paul-talks-anthony-joshua-fight-joining-logan-wwe-and-more-br-interview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">told B\/R<\/a> that he was interested in pursuing a championship at cruiserweight and named Noel Mikaelian as a potential option. Mikaelian defeated Badou Jack to win the WBC cruiserweight title earlier this month, so he could be Paul&#8217;s next target.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">B\/R&#8217;s <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\/25334040-5-next-best-fights-jake-paul-after-loss-vs-anthony-joshua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Tom Taylor<\/a> suggested that Paul&#8217;s future fights could be rematches against former UFC stars Nate Diaz and Anderson Silva, or even an MMA fight against current unified heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After his knockout loss against former unified heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua on Friday, Jake Paul is looking for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-363742","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363742","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=363742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}