Jake Paul says he is \u201cunderdog\u201d in October fight with opponent confirmed YouTube: Jake PaulJake Paul believes he\u2019ll be the \u201cunderdog\u201d in his October fight after confirming that he\u2019s signed an opponent for the event. After a hiatus from stepping into the ring, Jake Paul was supposed to make his return to boxing in August, but that just hasn\u2019t panned out. The YouTuber-turned-boxer was first set to fight Tommy Fury, but the Brit had trouble getting into the United States. Once that was canceled, Jake named Hasim Rahman Jr. as Fury\u2019s replacement, but then that fight was scrapped a week out due to Rahman\u2019s issues with making weight. Jake is now planning to fight in October, ahead of a planned 2023 fight with longtime rival KSI, and \u2018The Problem Child\u2019 says he\u2019ll be the underdog in his return to action. Jake Paul will be the \u201cunderdog\u201d in October boxing return The 25-year-old made the claim on the August 25 episode of his BS with Jake Paul sports show as he was chatting with NFL star Tyreek Hill. After talking about his fight with Nate Robinson, which Hill wanted to see Jake lose, the YouTuber said that he believes he\u2019ll be the underdog again in October. \u201cAfter I knocked out Nate Robinson, I wasn\u2019t the underdog anymore, but this next one\u2026 we have an announcement coming up and I\u2019m going to be fighting in October,\u201d Jake said. \u201cI can\u2019t say the name yet but I probably will be the underdog. It\u2019s exciting, it\u2019s going to be a tough challenge but we\u2019re prepared and we\u2019re about to get back into camp here.\u201d Timestamp of 34:38 While Jake hasn\u2019t yet confirmed the name of his opponent, he\u2019s been teasing some details about them. Prior to confirming that the contract had been signed, the YouTuber-turned-boxer said he\u2019d be fighting a pro boxer with a winning record. It remains to be seen as to who that will be, but there will be plenty of intrigue surrounding his long-awaited return to the ring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jake Paul says he is \u201cunderdog\u201d in October fight with opponent confirmed YouTube: Jake PaulJake Paul believes he\u2019ll be the \u201cunderdog\u201d in his October fight after confirming that he\u2019s signed an opponent for the event. After a hiatus from stepping into the ring, Jake Paul was supposed to make his return to boxing in August, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}