{"id":2220,"date":"2025-07-18T04:43:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T04:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/2220\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T04:43:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T04:43:06","slug":"jake-paul-has-accepted-a-fight-against-anthony-joshua-according-to-turki-alalshikh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/2220\/","title":{"rendered":"Jake Paul has accepted a fight against Anthony Joshua, according to Turki Alalshikh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jake Paul could have his next fight set, and it would be the biggest challenge of his career.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Jake-Paul-1024x683.jpg\" class=\"nlz w-full h-auto wp-post-image\" alt=\"Jake Paul\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   data-eio=\"p\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Paul was in talks to fight Canelo Alvarez, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/boxing-news\/jake-paul-boxing-news\/jake-paul-remains-confident-he-wouldve-beaten-canelo-alvarez-had-they-fought-hes-just-washed-up\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">but it didn\u2019t come to fruition<\/a>. After his most recent win over Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., he called out several boxers, including Anthony Joshua. Now, Turki Alalshikh claims he has a deal done for Joshua to box Paul next time out.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Turki Alalshikh revealed Jake Paul has accepted a fight against Anthony Joshua \u203c\ufe0f\ud83d\ude33<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will be good for me. If Joshua destroys him, the headache of Jake Paul will go from my mind.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/R5kaC5MQNb\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/R5kaC5MQNb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Happy Punch (@HappyPunch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HappyPunch\/status\/1945857606540476836?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 17, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not against him,\u201d Alalshikh said when addressing Paul on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ThaBoxingVoice\/status\/1945620903876071614\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Boxing Voice<\/a> podcast. \u201cI am against some kinds of fights he [does]. I want to tell you an example and a surprise. I am thinking me and him to doing him against Joshua now. I want to tell you something, Joshua if he destroys him, it will be good for me. The headache of Paul is finished.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet me explain it to you. Joshua against Jake Paul, if Joshua destroys him, the headache of Jake Paul will go from my mind. If Jake Paul win, I will know that Joshua is finished and Jake Paul deserves to be ranked and deserves to have a future in boxing. Right? Paul accepted. Now next week I will talk with Joshua about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A fight between Anthony Joshua and Paul would be huge, and one that the brash YouTuber-turned-boxer would be a massive underdog in.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jake Paul could have his next fight set, and it would be the biggest challenge of his career.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-2220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}