{"id":348679,"date":"2026-01-02T19:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T19:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/348679\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T19:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T19:58:08","slug":"jake-paul-american-loses-wba-cruiserweight-ranking-after-anthony-joshua-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/348679\/","title":{"rendered":"Jake Paul: American loses WBA cruiserweight ranking after Anthony Joshua loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jake Paul has dropped out of the WBA&#8217;s cruiserweight rankings after losing his heavyweight bout against Anthony Joshua last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Paul <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cr5vvj3rmmmo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">entered the rankings at number 14<\/a> in July after beating former world champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The YouTuber-turned-boxer fell to 15th and has missed out on a place following the WBA&#8217;s 31 December update.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Paul, 28, spent large parts of the fight running away from Joshua before tiring when he was knocked down twice in the fifth round and eventually <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cy8j2zvxzy1o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">stopped in the sixth<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cj9yp9erg23o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">two titanium plates fitted<\/a> and some teeth removed after suffering a broken jaw in the second defeat of his career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bosnia&#8217;s Edin Puhalo, who recorded his 27th career win in December, has taken the number 15 spot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Paul&#8217;s inclusion in the rankings last year irked many traditionalists in the sport who felt he had leapfrogged some of the more established contenders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jake Paul has dropped out of the WBA&#8217;s cruiserweight rankings after losing his heavyweight bout against Anthony Joshua&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-348679","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\/348679","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=348679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}