Paul had two titanium plates fitted and some teeth removed during surgery after the Joshua bout where he suffered the second defeat of his career.<\/p>\n
Bidarian says Paul has recently returned to the gym.<\/p>\n
“I saw pictures of him back in the gym with his boxing coach yesterday. So take that for what you will,” said Bidarian.<\/p>\n
“I know he has a desire to be back in 2026.”<\/p>\n
Bidarian added that the winner of Nate Diaz’s fight with Mike Perry on the Rousey-Carano undercard would be a “great MMA match-up” for Paul in the future.<\/p>\n
Paul beat American former UFC star Diaz in a boxing bout in 2023, but both fighters have called for a rematch in MMA.<\/p>\n
Paul also has a boxing victory over Perry in 2024.<\/p>\n
“I know Jake has talked up Nate a little bit, and Nate’s obviously mentioned it, but there’s no guarantee that Nate’s gonna beat Mike Perry,” said Bidarian.<\/p>\n
“I think the winner of that fight is a great MMA match-up for Jake Paul, if he wants to do MMA, which he’s always consistently said he does.<\/p>\n
“I think he’ll need a concerted six to eight months of MMA training. He obviously has a wrestling background.<\/p>\n
“That’s what he was doing in high school. And he hasn’t done much jiu-jitsu, so that will be something that will have to be quickly learned.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul had two titanium plates fitted and some teeth removed during surgery after the Joshua bout where he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-662027","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\/662027","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=662027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}