It’s Jake Paul vs Anthony Joshua fight week. Yes, you read that correctly, you don’t need to rub your eyes. We got here, fight week for Jake Paul vs Anthony Joshua.
Taking place at Miami’s Kaseya Center on December 19th, the fight has gained plenty of backlash from experts. This is an amateur going in there with a two time unified heavyweight world champion with an 89% knockout ratio.
Heading into the fight, The Problem Child is ironically the more in-form man. He’s 12-1 and is undefeated in his last six fights. Of course, we need to take into account the opposition that he’s been facing. It’s nowhere near the competition that Joshua has fought.
Joshua is 4-3 in his last seven, losing via knockout last time out to Daniel Dubois in the fifth round. It was the first time that we’ve seen Joshua completely out-gunned. Against Oleksandr Usyk, Joshua was outclassed. Against Andy Ruiz, something didn’t seem right with AJ and after Ruiz clipped AJ behind the ear, it was curtains for the Brit on that night in 2019. Against Dubois, Joshua looked slow, ill-disciplined and out of ideas early on.
Jake Paul vs Anthony Joshua – Tale of the Tape
The tale of the tape highlights a vast difference in experience between the two men; we knew this already. It doesn’t show how much more experience Joshua has overall, boasting 41 amateur fights, including securing an Olympic gold medal in 2012.
Joshua is bigger, with a longer reach, more fight experience, heavier hands and is the legitimate boxer out of the two men. Paul, isn’t.
The risk comes in that Jake Paul has nothing to lose. No one expects him to win. He’s an amateur boxer at best and Joshua has beaten better opposition than him throughout his career. A man with nothing to lose is a dangerous man.
At first glance, this seems like an obvious outcome. Joshua knocks Paul out, quickly. With that being said, Paul has continued to defy the odds in each and every fight he’s been in.
The fight can be caught on Netflix, with a decent undercard avaliable. Sugar Neekz returns to take on Amanda Galle, Alycia Baumgardner defends her super featherweight belts against Leila Beaudoin, Caroline Dubois makes her MVP debut against Camilla Panatta and in a clash that will have MMA fans’ attention, Anderson Silva takes on Tyron Woodley. Oh course though, all eyes will be on Jake Paul vs Anthony Joshua.
