{"id":467970,"date":"2026-02-11T12:07:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T12:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/467970\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T12:07:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T12:07:15","slug":"three-british-fighters-named-as-potential-opponents-for-jake-paul-comeback-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/467970\/","title":{"rendered":"Three British fighters named as potential opponents for Jake Paul comeback fight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jake Paul<\/a>\u2019s business partner and co-founder of MVP Promotions, Nakisa Bidarian, has highlighted three possible options for the internet star\u2019s next outing.<\/p>\n

The 29-year-old comes off a sixth-round stoppage defeat to Anthony Joshua<\/a> in December, when a crushing right hand caused his jaw to break in two places.<\/p>\n

Prior to the finish, Paul had spent most of their fight in survival mode, doing his best to evade each of Joshua\u2019s attacks while repeatedly throwing himself to the canvas.<\/p>\n

Given the terrific size difference between them, though, Paul could perhaps be forgiven for not wishing to engage with his hard-hitting opponent.<\/p>\n

He is, after all, far from a natural heavyweight, and with such limited professional boxing experience, too, it seems that he has now made the wise decision to move back down to 200lbs.<\/p>\n

Paul weighed just under 184lbs, in fact, when he suffered his only other defeat, via a split decision against Tommy Fury<\/a>, in 2023.<\/p>\n

Since then, the pair have expressed varying degrees of interest in a potential rematch, which MVP promoter Bidarian has named as a fight that \u2018should be made.\u2019<\/p>\n

Speaking with Boxing Social<\/a>, Bidarian discussed the likelihood of Fury-Paul 2 while, at the same time, mentioning Viddal Riley and Darren Till as possible opponents.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe most obvious [opponent] is Tommy Fury \u2013 that\u2019s a fight that should be made if Tommy is reasonable, in terms of what the terms are of the fight.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I think Viddal Riley\u2019s an interesting fight; I think Darren Till\u2019s an interesting fight. Those three names come to mind as interesting fights.\u201d<\/p>\n

British champion Riley and would be considered an almighty favourite against Paul, with his most notable wins having come against Cheavon Clarke and Mikael Lawal.<\/p>\n

Former UFC fighter Till, meanwhile, is perhaps a more favourable option for Paul, given that their levels of boxing experience are not exactly worlds apart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jake Paul\u2019s business partner and co-founder of MVP Promotions, Nakisa Bidarian, has highlighted three possible options for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-467970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467970","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=467970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}