{"id":40169,"date":"2026-01-03T16:14:01","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T16:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=40169"},"modified":"2026-01-03T16:14:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T16:14:01","slug":"jake-paul-drops-out-of-wba-cruiserweight-rankings-after-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=40169","title":{"rendered":"Jake Paul drops out of WBA cruiserweight rankings after loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>PANAMA CITY &#8212; Jake Paul has slipped out of the WBA cruiserweight rankings after the YouTuber-turned-boxer was soundly beaten by former world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua last month.<\/p>\n<p>Paul&#8217;s jaw was broken in two places, and the American needed surgery to repair the damage after Joshua&#8217;s sixth-round knockout victory in a heavyweight bout in Miami.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"editorial-title\">Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Paul (12-2, 7 KOs) had entered the WBA&#8217;s cruiserweight rankings at No. 14 in July shortly after he beat 39-year-old Julio C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez Jr. by unanimous decision in Anaheim, California.<\/p>\n<p>He was at No. 15 entering the bout against Joshua.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PANAMA CITY &#8212; Jake Paul has slipped out of the WBA cruiserweight rankings after the YouTuber-turned-boxer was soundly beaten by former world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua last month. Paul&#8217;s jaw was broken in two places, and the American needed surgery to repair the damage after Joshua&#8217;s sixth-round knockout victory in a heavyweight bout in Miami.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[21643,2573,5829,988,973,1287,21642],"class_list":{"0":"post-40169","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-cruiserweight","9":"tag-drops","10":"tag-jake","11":"tag-loss","12":"tag-paul","13":"tag-rankings","14":"tag-wba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}