{"id":290758,"date":"2025-11-17T16:53:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T16:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/290758\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T16:53:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T16:53:12","slug":"boxing-anthony-joshua-to-fight-youtuber-turned-pro-boxer-for-50-million-pounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/290758\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing: Anthony Joshua to fight YouTuber turned Pro Boxer for 50 Million Pounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several reports indicating that a fight between YouTuber turned professional boxer Jake Paul and former heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua have been confirmed with the Ring Magazine stating that the fight will take place on December 19 at the Kaseya Centre in Miami.<\/p>\n<p>Jake Paul infamously beat 58 year old retired boxer Mike Tyson in November 2024 with reportedly over 100 Million people tuning in to watch the fight.<\/p>\n<p>Paul was originally scheduled to take on former super lightweight champion Gervonta Davis this month but the bout was called off after Davis run into fresh legal trouble.<\/p>\n<p>The scheduled December fight is Joshua\u2019s first bout of 2025 after losing via a vicious knockout to Daniel Dubois at Wembley Stadium in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Conditions for the upcoming bout have been set with Joshua directed to not weigh above 245 pounds, with each of the eight rounds scheduled to last three minutes. Both fighters will wear 10 ounce gloves for the fight.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-615616\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Paul-1-1024x640.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"375\"  \/>USA\u2019s Jake Paul fights during his cruiserweight boxing match against Mexico\u2019s Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON\/AFP via Getty Images)<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-615617\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Paul-1024x653.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"596\" height=\"380\"  \/>Jake Paul, left, and Mike Tyson during their heavyweight bout (Photo By Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>The bout will be on streaming platform Netflix with a reported purse of 100 Million Pounds to be split by the boxers. The expected 50 million pounds payout will be the second highest in Joshua\u2019s career.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-606137\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1000470964-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\"  \/>Anthony Joshua (left) with Ghana President John Mahama<\/p>\n<p>Joshua reportedly earned 60 million pounds in his bout against Andy Ruiz. He was Ghana earlier this year and visited President of Ghana John Dramani Mahama.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udccb Jake Paul vs Anthony Joshua Rules Confirmed:<\/p>\n<p>\u2705 Sanctioned Professional Fight<br \/>\u2b55 Eight, Three-Minute Rounds<br \/>\ud83e\udd4a 10oz Gloves<br \/>\u2696\ufe0f AJ Cannot Weigh Over 245lbs<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcc6 December 19th<br \/>\ud83d\udccd Miami, Florida \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Y5Tu82FWL5\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/Y5Tu82FWL5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ring Magazine (@ringmagazine) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ringmagazine\/status\/1990423022130413841?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">November 17, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Several reports indicating that a fight between YouTuber turned professional boxer Jake Paul and former heavyweight champion Anthony&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-290758","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\/290758","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=290758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}