{"id":29026,"date":"2025-07-29T03:24:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T03:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/29026\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T03:24:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T03:24:12","slug":"jake-pauls-40-million-demand-puts-anthony-joshua-fight-in-doubt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/29026\/","title":{"rendered":"Jake Paul’s $40 million demand puts Anthony Joshua fight in doubt"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boxing<\/a> promoter Eddie Hearn has shut down Jake Paul’s<\/a> reported demands to fight former heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua in December.<\/p>\n

About a week ago, Hearn seemed confident a deal could get done and suggested Joshua would gladly take on the YouTuber turned boxer.<\/p>\n

He told Pro Boxing Fans that he had spoken to Saudi fixer Turki Alalshikh about the venture and that Joshua could “squeeze in” a fight with Paul before turning his attention to fellow British for world champion Tyson Fury in 2026.<\/p>\n

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However, Hearn’s tune has changed dramatically this week telling Boxing Social, Paul has basically priced himself out of negotiations.<\/p>\n

“Jake Paul wants $40 million to fight Anthony Joshua. It’s not happening,” Hearn said.<\/p>\n

“I don’t believe Jake Paul is serious. I don’t trust that he would take the fight. I think Francis Ngannou would destroy him, let alone AJ.”<\/p>\n

Hearn confirmed that Joshua still plans to fight in December but Paul probably won’t be the one standing in the opposite corner.<\/p>\n

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Julio Cesar Chavez Jr (right) punches Jake Paul on his way to losing.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

“We want AJ to fight in December, and we’re looking at a number of names. Jake Paul just isn’t one of them right now,” Hearn added.<\/p>\n

“We are ready for December, but Jake Paul is not an easy opponent to negotiate with.”<\/p>\n

Hearn dropped his $100 million defamation lawsuit against the YouTuber earlier this year so they could co-promote the Katie Taylor Amanda Serrano trilogy.<\/p>\n

Hearn filed the lawsuit after Paul alleged during an interview that Hearn had paid boxing judge Glenn Feldman to favourably score Matchroom fighters from ringside.<\/p>\n

A fight between Joshua and Paul would most certainly be a high grossing event with the interest in the UK and the US, along with a potential gate of 90,000 if it’s staged at Wembley.<\/p>\n

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Anthony Joshua is counted out during his loss to Daniel Dubois.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

Joshua (28-4, 25 KOs) is looking to rebound from his last outing in September 2024. He was stopped in the fifth round by Daniel Dubois in his attempt to become a three-time heavyweight champion.<\/p>\n

While he’s no longer a fixture to fight for a world title, Joshua, 35, is looking to cash in on the final years of his career.<\/p>\n

There’s been talk of a bout with Fury for years yet both sides could not come to an agreement while ‘The Gypsy King’ was world champion.<\/p>\n

That fight looks set to take place next year, although Fury was quite clear on how Joshua would fare against Paul, 28, who is 12-1 as a professional.<\/p>\n

“I think Jake Paul knocks him out,” Fury told The Ring. “I just think Jake Paul would knock AJ out.<\/p>\n

“I think AJ is a spent force and I think Jake Paul is on the rise.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn has shut down Jake Paul’s reported demands to fight former heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29027,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-29026","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\/29026","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=29026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}