YouTube star Jake Paul returns to boxing after Joshua loss for Dubai fight

YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul will return to the ring on December 24 in Dubai just over a year after suffering a broken jaw in his knockout loss to Anthony Joshua, he remarked.

Key points

• Paul has a 12-2 professional record, with his only defeats coming against Britain's Tommy Fury and Joshua.
• American Paul, 29, will headline the Christmas Eve card, with his opponent yet to be confirmed.
• "I have spent years proving people wrong, taking risks and pushing myself against opponents nobody thought I would face, " Paul remarked in an official note.
• Nothing that's happened has changed my belief in myself or what I'm working toward.
• "We've got plenty of names on the list; let's see who signs the contract, " he continued.

When his jaw was fractured in two places, injuries that required multiple surgeries in December and February, the bout will be Paul's first since his sixth-round knockout loss to former heavyweight champion Joshua in Miami on December 19 last year.

Nothing that's happened has changed my belief in myself or what I'm working toward. I am hungrier than ever and on December 24 I'm returning to the ring in Dubai to start the next chapter of my journey.

Although the bout drew criticism as a sham event, he additionally fought Mike Tyson in an exhibition fight in which he beat the former heavyweight champion in a unanimous points decision.

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