Anthony Joshua has insisted he will pull no punches in his shock boxing match with Jake Paul. On Friday 19 December, heavyweight star Joshua will fight the YouTuber-turned-boxer at Miami’s Kaseya Center. The bout will not be an exhibition but rather a professional contest, meaning the result will go on each man’s record and a knockout is possible. However, the heavyweight fight is scheduled for eight three-minute rounds, making it shorter than most main-event matches on the men’s side of the sport. Furthermore, Joshua will be capped at 245lb. Yet each man will wear 10oz gloves rather than any larger, more forgiving pairs,
Joshua vs Paul is an example of some of the most-unexpected matchmaking in boxing history, with 36-year-old Joshua a former two-time world heavyweight champion, while Paul, 28, made his name on YouTube and the Disney Channel before establishing a boxing career. Still, Joshua has vowed to chase a KO, saying in a press release: “Jake or anyone can get this work, no mercy.
Joshua’s record stands at 28-4 (25 KO wins), and the Briton has beaten the likes of Wladimir Klitschko, Dillian Whyte, Joseph Parker, Alexander Povetkin and Kubrat Pulev, while also facing Oleksandr Usyk and Daniel Dubois at the elite level. Anthony Joshua will aim to bounce back from a stoppage by Daniel Dubois. Meanwhile, Paul is 12-1 (7 KO wins) as a professional. The American has defeated – among others – former boxing world champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr, former UFC champions Tyron Woodley and Anderson Silva, and heavyweight boxing icon Mike Tyson.
Paul went the distance with Tyson, 58 at the time, in November 2024 and won on points in a highly-controversial fight, which played out across eight two-minute rounds. Paul typically fights at cruiserweight but faced Tyson at heavyweight. Joshua has not fought since September 2024, when he was knocked out by Dubois at Wembley Stadium, suffering four knockdowns en route to defeat – the fourth loss of his career and second by stoppage.
Anthony Joshua has put himself in a ‘no-win situation’ after accepting a fight against Jake Paul, says Sky Sports’ Johnny Nelson. The former two-time unified world champion will face Paul, the YouTuber turned boxer, in an eight-round sanctioned heavyweight fight at Kaseya Center, Miami, in the early hours of Saturday December 20 UK time. “It sounds like there’s 50 million reasons why Anthony Joshua is taking this fight,” Nelson told Sky Sports News.
Anthony Joshua is a British professional boxer. He is a two time heavyweight champion having held the unified[a] world heavyweight championship twice between 2017 to 2019 and 2019 to 2021. At regional level, he held the British and Commonwealth heavyweight titles from 2015 to 2016.
Jake Joseph Paul is an American professional boxer, influencer, actor and co-founder of boxing promotion Most Valuable Promotions, alongside adviser Nakisa Bidarian. He began his career posting videos on Vine in September 2013 and had amassed 5.3 million followers and 2 billion views before the app was discontinued. He launched his YouTube channel, Jake Paul, in May 2014, and was ranked by Forbes as one of the highest-paid YouTube creators of the 2010s and 2020s.
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I fight Jake. That’s my focus. Fury’s not even on on my radar. He He can sit around doing Instagram videos, but he he’s not the one getting in the ring. Jake is. I’m not sitting around waiting for a guy that likes to do more Instagram videos than fight. I’m looking for real fighters. Tyson’s not a real fighter in my eyes. You know, I’ll be on the walls of of Jake Pauls, of of Joseph Parkers, of of Povkkins, you know, of Ruiz’s of the world. He ain’t fought these kind of guys. Um, I have. So, yeah.

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Fury isn’t a real fighter 😂😂 this guy man
So your calling jake paul a real fighter??😂😂😂 wow aj you really are a muppet
I’ll be on the walls of Jake Paul’s? Holy shit bro seriously?
An talking shit fight fury not some bum off YouTube not a boxer . You talk shit sometimes
Fury don’t want that smoke cherry picked his entire career until usyk
Aj would bang Dyson fury out 😅 im an aj fan Dyson fury is an actual dossa