Jake Paul will be officially ranked if he beats Hasim Rahman Jr. Seeking to be seen as a legitimate professional boxer, Jake Paul has the opportunity to earn a WBC Boxing rank during his fight with Hasim Rahman Jr. Following his first amateur match in 2020, Jake Paul fell in love with the brutal sport of boxing. But despite his 5-0 record against formidable athletes, the boxing community has struggled to see him as a legitimate competitor. While he\u2019s fought professional basketball players and two MMA champions, none of his opponents have been professional boxers. They\u2019ve also been much older than Jake leading spectators to believe the fights didn\u2019t prove much of Paul\u2019s abilities. However, on August 6, Jake Paul will fight his youngest opponent yet, Professional boxer Hasim Rahman Jr. With a 12-1 record and weighing more than Paul, the odds are in Rahman\u2019s favor. But there\u2019s a lot more on the line for Paul than there is for Rahman. Jake Paul fighting for a rank Regardless of how individuals in the boxing community see Paul, this fight is his chance to finally show he\u2019s a professional boxer. But not just because of his display of skill against a daunting opponent. On July 29, World Boxing Council president Mauricio Sulaiman tweeted, \u201cComing August 6 Jake Paul will take on Hasim Rahman Jr. Winning this fight will earn him a World Boxing Council ranking.\u201d However, Sulaiman wasn\u2019t specific about where Paul would rank. But his wording made it clear that Jake Paul would not be ranked if he wasn\u2019t able to beat Rahman Jr. Members of the boxing community weren\u2019t happy with this announcement. Professional boxed Ishe Smith called it \u201cabsolutely pathetic\u201d pointing out Jake only had one pro boxer on his resume that hadn\u2019t even happened yet. Another user pointed out that the WBC was inconsistent with their ratings seeing as Kenzie Morrison had beaten the undefeated Rahman Jr, but wasn\u2019t in the WBC top 50. Of course, Jake Paul\u2019s WBC rank rides on his ability to overcome a more experienced and heavier opponent. The problem child hasn\u2019t had any trouble taking down his opponents in the past, but he\u2019s never fought against a real professional boxer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jake Paul will be officially ranked if he beats Hasim Rahman Jr. Seeking to be seen as a legitimate professional boxer, Jake Paul has the opportunity to earn a WBC Boxing rank during his fight with Hasim Rahman Jr. Following his first amateur match in 2020, Jake Paul fell in love with the brutal sport […]<\/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-51696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51696","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=51696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}