{"id":579827,"date":"2026-05-12T12:51:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T12:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/579827\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T12:51:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T12:51:15","slug":"jake-paul-boxing-career-in-doubt-over-injury-from-anthony-joshua-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/579827\/","title":{"rendered":"Jake Paul: Boxing career in doubt over injury from Anthony Joshua fight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jake Paul says his boxing career is “most definitely” in doubt because of the injuries sustained during his loss to British heavyweight Anthony Joshua in December.<\/p>\n

Paul had two titanium plates fitted<\/a> and some teeth removed after Joshua broke his jaw in two places during their heavyweight fight in Miami.<\/p>\n

The YouTuber-turned-boxer went six rounds<\/a> with two-time world heavyweight champion Joshua, but the bout was stopped when Paul failed to beat the count following repeated knockdowns.<\/p>\n

“I’m getting some new scans in a couple of days, of the jaw, to get an update on the healing process. We’ll see what the doctors say,” he said on The Ariel Helwani Show. <\/p>\n

“I think I’ll be able to get a more accurate timeframe, or can I even fight again? That is definitely in the realm of possibility.<\/p>\n

“It does feel a lot better as weeks go by, but I definitely need to get cleared to be able to spar. I’m staying in shape and enjoying some mitt work. I’m always in the gym regardless.”<\/p>\n

Paul’s defeat by Joshua saw the 29-year-old drop out of the WBA’s cruiserweight rankings. His previous opponents were largely made up of boxers well past their prime or former mixed martial artists.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, his partner at Most Valuable Promotions, Nakisa Bidarian, told BBC Sport Paul was eyeing a return to cruiserweight<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But asked if his boxing future is in doubt, Paul said: “Most definitely. I think it just depends on how the bone heals, and then also there’s a tooth missing – I’m pretty sure I’m going to have to get an implant of some sort.<\/p>\n

“I don’t know how much time that’s going to add to things. But we just have to see and figure out what the smartest thing is for me.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jake Paul says his boxing career is “most definitely” in doubt because of the injuries sustained during his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-579827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579827","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=579827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}