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<\/p>\nWhen Jake Paul steps into the ring tonight to face Anthony Joshua in Miami, one very special person will be cheering him on from ringside.<\/p>\n
His fianc\u00e9e, Jutta Leerdam, is set to watch nervously as the YouTuber-turned-boxer takes on the former heavyweight champion at the Kaseya Center.<\/p>\n
It’s being billed as one of the biggest challenges of Paul’s boxing career so far.<\/p>\n
The 28-year-old American will be hoping to pull off a major upset against Joshua in this professional heavyweight clash, which runs over eight three-minute rounds.<\/p>\n
Jake Paul and Jutta Leerdam have officially been together since 2023<\/p>\n
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But Leerdam is no stranger to high-pressure sporting moments herself.<\/p>\n
The 26-year-old Dutch athlete has built an extraordinary career on the ice, specialising in long-track sprint events.<\/p>\n
She claimed a silver medal at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, competing in the 1000m event for the Netherlands.<\/p>\n
Her trophy cabinet also includes seven gold medals from European Championships in sprint and 1000-metre races, along with various World Championship titles.<\/p>\n
Leerdam holds the Dutch record in the women’s 1000m with a time of 1:11.84, which she set while winning gold at the 2020 World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships.<\/p>\n
The speed skater first took to the ice at age 11, having previously played field hockey.<\/p>\n
The couple’s love story began in the most modern way possible \u2013 through Instagram direct messages.<\/p>\n
They went public with their relationship in April 2023, not long after Paul suffered his first professional defeat to Tommy Fury.<\/p>\n
Paul has credited Leerdam with helping him through a difficult period, describing her as “one of the most pure-hearted human beings” he’s ever met.<\/p>\n
“She really was there talking about her losses and was able to relate to those things and what I was going through,” he said on his YouTube channel.<\/p>\n
The pair got engaged during a romantic trip to St Lucia in March 2025, with Paul admitting he was more nervous proposing than before any fight.<\/p>\n
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Jutta Leerdam holds the Dutch record in the women’s 1000m with a time of 1:11.84<\/p>\n
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Leerdam has her sights firmly set on the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy, where she’s chasing the one prize that’s eluded her so far.<\/p>\n
“I’ve already achieved so many things. Dutch titles make me incredibly happy, but there’s one thing I still need: Olympic gold,” she said.<\/p>\n
Before she can compete in Milan, however, she must first secure her spot at the Dutch Olympic Trials, which begin on December 26.<\/p>\n
The speed skater remains intensely focused on her goal, believing that when the moment arrives, everything could come together perfectly on the ice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Jake Paul steps into the ring tonight to face Anthony Joshua in Miami, one very special person…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[2023,430,156,111,43,139,69,51066,2022,3040,258],"class_list":["post-192784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-boxing","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sgg","tag-sport","tag-us","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}