{"id":78746,"date":"2021-05-31T22:08:21","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T22:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=78746"},"modified":"2021-05-31T23:04:29","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T23:04:29","slug":"youtube-star-set-to-face-former-ufc-champ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=78746","title":{"rendered":"Youtube star set to face former UFC champ"},"content":{"rendered":"

With his brother set to face Floyd Mayweather this weekend, Jake Paul<\/a> has reportedly signed a deal for his next fight.<\/p>\n

According to The Athletic, the YouTube star and former UFC welterweight champion Tyron Woodley have agreed to a deal for a boxing match. Paul, who was recently roughed up for taking Mayweather's hat in Miami, is coming off a first-round knockout win against Ben Askren, another former UFC fighter<\/a>. Askren and Woodley wrestled together in college, and are close friends.<\/p>\n

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Like Askren, Woodley is a former wrestling champion without much boxing experience and has recently been released by the UFC. Although he is definitely more of a striking threat than Askren.<\/p>\n

Woodley has one-punch power with seven of his 19 wins in MMA came via knockout.<\/p>\n

Paul currently holds a record of 3-0 in his career, with wins against a former UFC fighter, a former NBA player and a YouTuber, as well as an exhibition win over another YouTuber.<\/p>\n

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Woodley was the UFC's welterweight champ with multiple title defences to his name, but he lost his belt to current champ Kamaru Usman in March 2019.<\/p>\n

Woodley has been on a losing streak since, with consecutive losses to Gilbert Burns, Colby Covington and Vicente Luque.<\/p>\n

The fight will likely be the first in Paul's new deal with Showtime Boxing, which signed Paul to a multi-fight deal earlier this month.<\/p>\n

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With his brother set to face Floyd Mayweather this weekend, Jake Paul has reportedly signed a deal for his next fight. According to The Athletic, […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78746"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78746"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78748,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78746\/revisions\/78748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}