“It’s not that hard to get your ass beat,” Paul said on Impaulsive. “I won two rounds, for sure, and then he won two, and then I got dropped. I was doing good. I just think my cardio, just the mental pressure of the big guy, and sparring the big people, is different than the 10 ounce gloves. So I was feeling his power a lot more. But it was a great experience. I learned a lot in there. I told everyone though, that I would do better than Francis, and that Francis kind of got no chin. Francis is low-key soft. I’ll fight Francis. I think maybe now he’ll take it.“
“The most fascinating thing of the whole night, in terms of the fight, was how [Paul] didn’t get flatlined by that right hand,” promoter Eddie Hearn told Ariel Helwani. “I said going into the fight, it was probably going to take AJ a few rounds to get hold of him, and I also said as soon as he lands clean, the fight’s over. He landed a few before, but the first that he landed really clean was the final shot. He never flatlined Jake. He did break his jaw in two places, which is a disaster, but there are a lot of heavyweights that would’ve been out cold from that right hand. One of them was Francis Ngannou in a pretty similar shot, really.”