{"id":951135,"date":"2026-10-29T22:12:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T22:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/951135\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T22:12:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T22:12:15","slug":"jake-paul-to-return-to-boxing-with-christmas-eve-fight-in-dubai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/951135\/","title":{"rendered":"Jake Paul to return to boxing with Christmas Eve fight in Dubai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jake Paul is heading back to the ring.<\/p>\n<p>The former YouTube star is set to fight on Christmas Eve in Dubai, he announced on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve spent years proving people wrong, taking risks and pushing myself against opponents nobody thought I&#8217;d face. Nothing that&#8217;s happened has changed my belief in myself or what I&#8217;m working toward. I&#8217;m hungrier than ever,&#8221; Paul said.<\/p>\n<p>Paul, 29, last fought last December, when he lost to two-time heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua and broke his jaw.<\/p>\n<p>An opponent for his next fight has not been announced, though Paul indicated that it is in the works.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve got plenty of names on the list; let\u2019s see who signs the contract. Merry Christmas, Dubai. Santa Paul is coming to town, and somebody&#8217;s getting knocked out,&#8221; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Paul is 12-2 with seven knockouts in his boxing career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jake Paul is heading back to the ring. The former YouTube star is set to fight on Christmas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":951136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-951135","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\/951135","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=951135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/951136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}