{"id":2984,"date":"2022-08-01T16:17:35","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T15:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/?p=2984"},"modified":"2022-08-01T16:17:35","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T15:17:35","slug":"jake-paul-vs-hasim-rahman-jr-called-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/jake-paul-vs-hasim-rahman-jr-called-off\/boxing\/","title":{"rendered":"Jake Paul vs Hasim Rahman Jr Called Off?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jake Paul has recently stated that he will be facing another professional fighter, known as Hasim Rahman Jr, this was set for the same time as the Jake Paul v Tommy Fury fight, however, this now may not be happening due to issues involving weight!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jake Paul was set to face another boxer on August 6th as he wanted to prove to the world that he could beat a real fighter, rather than a UFC fighter. This has not gone according to plan, however.<\/p>\n<p>Rahman Jr has stated that he wants the weight to be higher than the weight that has been finalized.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YWf1yKU3BXU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>The weight was 200lbs, however, it was believed that Rahman Jr was unable to reach that weight as he was weighing in at 215lbs, this caused a lot of issues as the fight was coming closer and closer.<\/p>\n<p>Paul&#8217;s Most Valuable Promotions (MVP) said fellow American Rahman had signed an agreement to fight at 200lb but a weight check on Friday showed he was 215lb. BBC stated.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;MVP and Jake Paul will not reward someone that has conducted themselves in such a deceiving and calculated manner, the boxing community must hold Hasim Rahman Jr liable for his lack of professionalism.&#8221; said Jake Paul&#8217;s team!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em><strong>Banner and Image Credit: <a class=\"jss302 jss73 jss75 jss74\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/g\/scarletsails\">lev radin<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jake Paul has recently stated that he will be facing another professional fighter, known as Hasim Rahman Jr, this was set for the same time as the Jake Paul v Tommy Fury fight, however, this now may not be happening due to issues involving weight! Jake Paul was set to face another boxer on August&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":2985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[1665],"class_list":["post-2984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boxing","tag-cruiserweight-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2986,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2984\/revisions\/2986"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}