{"id":256109,"date":"2025-11-11T03:37:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T03:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/256109\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T03:37:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T03:37:10","slug":"former-heavyweight-world-champion-speaking-to-jake-paul-about-fighting-him-in-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/256109\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Heavyweight World Champion Speaking To Jake Paul About Fighting Him In December"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former unified world heavyweight champion is in discussions for a potential showdown with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/topic\/jake-paul\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jake Paul<\/a> this December.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The Problem Child\u2019 remains on the hunt for a brand new opponent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/news\/roy-jones-message-to-paul-on-davis-fight\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">after his clash with reigning WBA lightweight champion Gervonta Davis was cancelled.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Paul was scheduled to face \u2018Tank\u2019 in a ten round exhibition bout at the Kaseya Center in Miami on November 14 before the controversial match-up was scrapped after Davis landed himself in trouble once again <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/46785106\/gervonta-davis-facing-new-civil-suit-domestic-allegations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">after being named in a civil lawsuit for domestic allegations.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It has now been confirmed that Paul\u2019s return to the ring has been pushed back to December, giving the 28-year-old from Phoenix extra time to prepare for a new opponent, with an official announcement expected to be made in due course.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MatchroomBoxing\/status\/1986866239206277537?t=3hoCPZH6qlKO-Wi8Znxnsg&amp;s=31\" rel=\"nofollow\">As revealed by Matchroom Boxing\u2019s Eddie Hearn<\/a>, there is a possibility that Paul could actually lock horns with two-time unified world heavyweight champion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/topic\/anthony-joshua\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anthony Joshua<\/a> in December, although he does admit that these negotiations are still in the early stages.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s been some conversations with myself and Nakisa [Paul\u2019s business partner]. I think Jake and AJ have spoke as well. You know, from our point of view, if we can have a run out fight why not run out against Jake Paul? You know, for a lot of money.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, there\u2019s ongoing conversations there. I can\u2019t tell you it\u2019s close, I can\u2019t tell you we\u2019ve seen a contract. But if he genuinely wants to fight Anthony Joshua I don\u2019t see why we wouldn\u2019t have a chance to do that fight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Joshua is said to be edging closer to making his highly-anticipated return to the ring, with his last outing ending in a shock fifth round stoppage defeat to former IBF heavyweight champion Daniel Dubois in September 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former unified world heavyweight champion is in discussions for a potential showdown with Jake Paul this December.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-256109","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}