Jake Paul puts deadline on winning boxing world title ahead of August return Instagram: Jake PaulJake Paul has always claimed that he\u2019s on his way to winning a boxing world title, and now, he\u2019s set a deadline for when he thinks he\u2019ll finally hold the gold. Ever since he first got involved with professional boxing, Jake Paul has had his sights set on some pretty lofty goals \u2013 which include beating some top-level boxers like Saul \u2018Canelo\u2019 Alvarez. To this point, Jake has only fought MMA fighters and athletes from other sports, but he is keen to mix it up with \u2018real\u2019 boxers and get on the path to winning a world championship. Even though he\u2019s only got a 5-0 record, Jake isn\u2019t holding back in his belief that he can, at some point, call himself the champion of the world. In fact, he\u2019s even got a timetable for when he thinks he\u2019ll achieve it. After responding to Mike Tyson\u2019s interest in doing a fight this year, the YouTuber-turned-boxer turned his attention to the Artur Beterbiev vs Joe Smith Jr fight, and he had some thoughts. Jake poked fun at Smith\u2019s performance \u2013 where he was finished inside two rounds by the Canadian-based Russian fighter \u2013 as he lost his WBO light-heavyweight championship. \u201cY\u2019all don\u2019t think I can become world champion but look at how Joe Smith Jr. is fighting,\u201d Jake tweeted on June 18, with a handful of clown face emojis attached. \u201cIn 3 years I will become the light heavyweight champion of the world\u2026\u201d Lololololol y\u2019all don\u2019t think I can become world champion but look at how Joe Smith Jr. is fighting\ud83e\udd21\ud83e\udd21\ud83e\udd21 In 3 years I will become the light heavyweight champion of the world\u2026 \u2014 Jake Paul (@jakepaul) June 19, 2022 Naturally, Jake\u2019s claim attracted plenty of dismissive responses, with some saying the YouTuber was \u201cgetting ahead\u201d of himself given he\u2019s not fought a \u2018real\u2019 boxer to this point. The social media star will be back in the ring at the start of August, but his opponent has yet to be named. It\u2019s been claimed that he will finally fight Tommy Fury, but Jake has cast doubt on that. So, we\u2019ll have to wait and see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jake Paul puts deadline on winning boxing world title ahead of August return Instagram: Jake PaulJake Paul has always claimed that he\u2019s on his way to winning a boxing world title, and now, he\u2019s set a deadline for when he thinks he\u2019ll finally hold the gold. Ever since he first got involved with professional boxing, […]<\/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-51533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51533","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=51533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}