This is no exhibition, they have confirmed. The rules will be normal for a heavyweight boxing contest.<\/p>\n
Former YouTuber Paul is stepping up a division from his usual home at cruiserweight to take on Joshua, who has been one of the largest of his heavyweight peers throughout his era.<\/p>\n
Most recently, Joshua weighed in to face Daniel Dubois at 252 lbs.<\/p>\n
Paul, meanwhile, was 227 lbs when he met the ageing Mike Tyson in a heavyweight bout.<\/p>\n
The Tyson fight was the only time Paul was weighed more than the cruiserweight limit of 200 lbs.<\/p>\n
Weigh-in result from past three Anthony Joshua fights<\/p>\n
Against Daniel Dubois, Joshua was 252 lbs<\/p>\n
Against Francis Ngannou, Joshua was 252 lbs<\/p>\n
Against Otto Wallin, Joshua was 251 lbs<\/p>\n
Weigh-in result from past three Jake Paul fights<\/p>\n
Against Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., Paul was 199 lbs<\/p>\n
Against Mike Tyson, Paul was 227 lbs<\/p>\n
Against Mike Perry, Paul was 200 lbs<\/p>\n
Anthony Joshua brings a huge size advantage into the ring against Jake Paul.\u00a0GettyThe height difference<\/p>\n
Paul is also the shortest opponent of Joshua’s in a decade. The American is listed as standing at 6’1”, which is five inches shorter than the Brit.<\/p>\n
You have to go back 11 years — and 22 fights — to remember Michael Sprott, an opponent who stood at 6’0”. Sprott lasted less than one round.<\/p>\n
Believers in Paul’s ability might choose to point out some of Joshua’s shorter opponents of recent years.<\/p>\n
Ruiz Jr. was 6’2” and stunned Joshua in New York, then took him the distance in a rematch. Carlos Takam, at 6’1” was a tough nut to crack, and much more recently Jermaine Franklin, at 6’3”, heard the final bell against Joshua.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Joshua is the tallest opponent that Paul has fought by a considerable four inches.<\/p>\n
Anderson Silva, at 6’2”, was beaten by Paul three years ago but he spent his UFC pomp fighting at 185 lbs — approximately 70 lbs lighter than Joshua.<\/p>\n
But, Gervonta Davis…<\/p>\n
Remarkably, Paul was scheduled to fight Gervonta Davis on Nov. 14 before the fight was cancelled.<\/p>\n
Undefeated three-weight world champion Davis stands at 5’5” and most recently weighed in at 135 lbs.<\/p>\n
That means Paul has increased the size of his opponent by a staggering one foot, and 120 lbs – a jump of seven weight classes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anthony Joshua will bring a considerable size advantage into the ring against Jake Paul – but what is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-290523","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-boxing","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290523","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=290523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}