{"id":463983,"date":"2026-02-09T16:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T16:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/463983\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T16:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T16:00:10","slug":"amanda-serrano-rebukes-jake-paul-over-bad-bunny-fake-american-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/463983\/","title":{"rendered":"Amanda Serrano Rebukes Jake Paul Over Bad Bunny &#8216;Fake American&#8217; Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmanews.com\/tag\/amanda-serrano\" class=\"tag-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amanda Serrano<\/a> sharply criticized <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmanews.com\/tag\/jake-paul\" class=\"tag-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jake Paul<\/a> on February 9, 2026, after he labeled Bad Bunny a &#8220;fake American citizen&#8221; for his Super Bowl halftime performance in Santa Clara, California, and accused him of &#8220;hating America.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The exchange unfolded on X, where Paul (who resides in Puerto Rico and benefits from Act 60 tax incentives), took aim at the Puerto Rican superstar&#8217;s show. <\/p>\n<p>Serrano, a top fighter signed to Paul&#8217;s Most Valuable Promotions, defended Bad Bunny and Puerto Rican identity in response. Serrano acknowledged Paul&#8217;s role in elevating her career but drew a firm line on cultural disrespect. <\/p>\n<p>Puerto Ricans are not &#8216;fake Americans.&#8217; We are citizens who have contributed to this country in every field, from military service to sports, business, science, and the arts, and our identity and citizenship deserve respect.<\/p>\n<p>This is not Paul&#8217;s only &#8220;Patriotic&#8221; dust up this week &#8211; he&#8217;s also among a group of fighters who slammed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmanews.com\/article\/jake-paul-sean-strickland-dan-henderson-slam-olympic-skiers-usa-comments\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">US Olympian Skiiers Over ICE Comments<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Update: On Monday morning, Paul issued the following statement on X, walking back some of his spicy commentary from the weekend. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amanda Serrano sharply criticized Jake Paul on February 9, 2026, after he labeled Bad Bunny a &#8220;fake American&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[11041,49,48,641,5277,638,82],"class_list":["post-463983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-amanda-serrano","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-jake-paul","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463983","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=463983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}