{"id":8842,"date":"2026-01-02T21:26:37","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T21:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=8842"},"modified":"2026-01-02T21:26:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T21:26:37","slug":"jake-paul-american-loses-wba-cruiserweight-ranking-after-anthony-joshua-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=8842","title":{"rendered":"Jake Paul: American loses WBA cruiserweight ranking after Anthony Joshua loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Jake Paul has dropped out of the WBA&#8217;s cruiserweight rankings after losing his heavyweight bout against Anthony Joshua last month.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Paul <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cr5vvj3rmmmo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">entered the rankings at number 14<\/a> in July after beating former world champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The YouTuber-turned-boxer fell to 15th and has missed out on a place following the WBA&#8217;s 31 December update.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Paul, 28, spent large parts of the fight running away from Joshua before tiring when he was knocked down twice in the fifth round and eventually <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cy8j2zvxzy1o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">stopped in the sixth<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cj9yp9erg23o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">two titanium plates fitted<\/a> and some teeth removed after suffering a broken jaw in the second defeat of his career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bosnia&#8217;s Edin Puhalo, who recorded his 27th career win in December, has taken the number 15 spot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Paul&#8217;s inclusion in the rankings last year irked many traditionalists in the sport who felt he had leapfrogged some of the more established contenders.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/ceqzn89rwpyo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jake Paul has dropped out of t&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[251],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8842"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}