“How the strangest fight of 2025 in boxing wentβ, β write: sport.ua
Apart from millions of dollars and a broken jaw, you won’t find any special results here, if you want to approach this confrontation like a meeting of boxers. Anthony did what he promised, but not as expected.
Jake Paul and Anthony Joshua gave a terrible quality of boxing. But they got a lot of money for it Whichever way you look at this meeting, it didn’t make any sense. At first, Jake Paul was preparing to meet Gervonta Davis. An American weighs 62 kilograms. Well, maybe 70 in life, fine. Jake is over 90.
The American spent almost a full camp, until suddenly the opponent beat the woman again. Paul, whose company takes care of the promotion of women’s boxing, refused to organize a show with such a person. Although Gervonta is not the first to beat women.
After that, Jake began to look for rivals. In fact, there were any options, which already looked strange. There were Rolando Romero, Andre Ward, Terence Crawford and Francis Ngannou. There were others, but this is just an example to understand how much Jake’s team was thrown from side to side.
Agreed as a result of Anthony Joshua. The Briton was just about to fight someone for about 8 rounds to get back into the ring. It was supposed to be a not very difficult opponent that would give Joshua a hard time. Hearn was even going to put his main star on an undercard show in Riyadh or Nigeria.
Suddenly, Jake Paul brought a lot of money. The undercard was cancelled, a fight against a lighter, smaller opponent was arranged. Also streaming on Netflix. For such a chance, even DAZN, which is the British broadcaster, did not argue.
It continued to be funny. This fight is official, its result went into the records of both fighters. In addition, they boxed in the heavyweight division. But at the same time, Joshua should have weighed no more than 111.13 kilograms. Such a contract weight in the heavyweight division. Very strange.
Joshua, by the way, made weight easily. He weighed even less than that – about 110 kilograms. Recently, Anthony weighed less only in the first fight against Usyk – it was 108.8 then.
It’s about what’s around. And now about the fight. And here we suggest treating all this as a confrontation between real boxers, and not some simple show or contractual match. Because both position themselves that way. Joshua says he’s hunting real fighters. Jake – who is going to fight for the championship belt.
So as a boxing show it was a terrible fight. Not even close to what the showrunners promised.
Joshua was in no rush to knock anyone out. He was in no hurry at all. He walked in circles behind his opponent, threw a weak jab. Sometimes he tried to catch up with the right side and didn’t hit.
Jake was no better. He ran away from an open fight, because there you can be knocked out. He threw a few punches and ran away again. In the clinch, for some reason I forgot that this is a boxing fight, not MMA. Paul immediately decided to go to his opponent’s feet and even threw him. And then he blamed himself again – precisely because of this.
In addition, the referee almost did not react. Talked to Jake about it once. One time with Joshua – that’s enough activities.
The actual match began when Paul lost himself. Already in the 3rd round, Jake was breathing heavily from running. After that, he began to get more and more blows. And Joshua also picked up the pace and started hitting – especially in the clinch.
And so we found ourselves in a situation in which the American is barely breathing, but holds on and runs away. And the British is in no hurry. There were several knockdowns here, but not impressive ones. Jake collapsed, more from exhaustion than from being hit. No, certainly the blows were flying. But not such as to put Paul down for good.
However, Jake’s time was running out faster and faster. Joshua didn’t let him breathe and just clamped down. And then he knocked out his opponent with a smile on his face. Paul would rise here too, but a broken jaw in two places is a bad injury to continue the duel.
Getty Images/Global Images Ukraine What now? Jake Paul – treatment and health. The fight was bad, but the opponent was also strong. It will be better with someone simpler, especially in cruiserweight.
This does not mean that Jake is now the leader of the heavyweight division. There are many boxers who will definitely beat him. It’s just that with such experience and resume, the American will be able to win the title whenever he wants. And there is no need to doubt that he will have a belt.
However, the jaw should be adjusted first. This is not a quick injury, it requires a long recovery. And Jake himself said after the fight that he wanted to rest.
Anthony Joshua called Tyson Fury to fight. “If Tyson Fury is as serious as he says he is, if he’s willing to put down his Twitter and put on the gloves, let him come out and fight. I’m one of the realest guys out there, I’ll take on any challenge. If you’re really cool, get in the ring with me next. Enough chatter: “AJ this”, “AJ that”. Let’s meet in the ring and talk fists. I give this homeless man 8 weeks. 24 hours to sign the contract. Let’s see if you are a real man. Greedy belly,β Joshua said.
Eddie Hearn also confirmed his willingness to fight Fury. The promoter himself will not fight, of course, but AJ is ready to organize a fight. Now it’s up to Fury, who hasn’t stepped into the ring since 2024 and seemingly had no motivation to return. However, after hearing one of Joshua’s statements to Jake, he promised to knock out Anthony as soon as he met him.
This fight has to happen. Even now. It’s not too late.