{"id":519298,"date":"2026-10-29T08:57:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T12:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=519298"},"modified":"2026-10-29T08:57:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T12:57:30","slug":"jake-paul-returns-with-a-fight-on-december-24-in-dubai","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/jake-paul-returns-with-a-fight-on-december-24-in-dubai\/","title":{"rendered":"Jake Paul returns with a fight on December 24 in Dubai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jake Paul will box again almost 1 year after he sustained a broken jaw, as he has agreed to a bout near the end of the year in Dubai.<\/p>\n<p>Jake (12-2, 7 KOs) will headline an event on Christmas Eve, Most Valuable Promotions revealed today. His opponent is yet to be revealed.<\/p>\n<p>It will be Jake\u2019s 1<sup>st<\/sup> appearance since Anthony Joshua stopped him in the 6<sup>th<\/sup> round of their heavyweight match on December 19<sup>th<\/sup> in Miami. He sustained fractures to his jaw that required multiple procedures the same month and in February.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have spent years proving everyone wrong, taking risks and trying to face the best in the industry,\u201d Paul shared. \u201cNothing that happened in my boxing matches until now has changed my self-belief or what I\u2019m trying to achieve. I\u2019m ready, and on Christmas Eve I\u2019m returning for a match in Dubai to begin the next chapter of my journey.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a lot of different names for my next opponent, and we will see who will sign a deal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jake, who is 29 years old, was cleared to resume full contact at the beginning of October.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Jake Paul has confirmed his return to boxing after more than a year away<\/p>\n<p>He will fight on December 24 in Dubai https:\/\/t.co\/1ETulfcsbB<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dexerto (@Dexerto) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Dexerto\/status\/2115783250274656546?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">October 29, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jake Paul will box again almost 1 year after he sustained a broken jaw, as he has agreed to a bout near the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":519299,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17763],"news_category":[20045],"gn_keywords":[18384],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"He will return from broken jaw and will fight again this year.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/519298"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/519298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":519300,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/519298\/revisions\/519300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519298"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=519298"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=519298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}