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<\/p>\nBy: Sean Crose <\/p>\n
\u201cBigger, faster, stronger.\u201d Those were the words the great Ray Mancini said to me 10 years ago when explaining why he felt Floyd Mayweather would beat Manny Pacquiao in their upcoming super fight. It\u2019s strange all these years later, but those same three words are popping into my head now that Jake Paul has signed up to fight none other than former heavyweight kingpin Anthony Joshua. Paul deserves credit for being brave. He really does. He also is a picture of confidence. Here\u2019s the thing though: He\u2019s never fought anyone like Joshua before. He\u2019s beaten a couple of boxers, some former UFC greats, and of course Mike Tyson (who at his age shouldn\u2019t have even been in the ring ). <\/p>\n
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Joshua on the other hand, has recently been a world champion. What\u2019s more, he\u2019s still a contender to be a world champion and if that\u2019s not enough, he may very well end up being a world champion again before he calls it a career. What does all this mean? It means that the fighter, a towering Londoner, is still very much in the fight game. And if his skills have perhaps dropped a little, they haven\u2019t dropped enough for him not to likely lay a beating on Paul when the two men meet December 19th in Miami. Some are complaining about this fight but the truth is there have been worse novelty battles lately. Paul is a natural cruiserweight so it\u2019s not like he\u2019s got a huge mountain to climb to deal with Joshua\u2019s physically. It\u2019s certainly less of a physical mismatch than Paul\u2019s cancelled fight with Gervonta Davis was. <\/p>\n
The Paul-Joshua fight will most likely come down to skills. Joshua has a lot more of those than Paul does. Paul isn\u2019t a bad fighter. He\u2019s got heart and he\u2019s got a powerful right hand and he\u2019s probably getting better every time he\u2019s getting in the ring. With that being said, Joshua is one of the top three or four heavyweights of the post Klitschko era. He\u2019s got good footwork, he\u2019s fast, and he\u2019s powerful, thunderously powerful. As Ray Mancini said all those years ago \u2013 \u201cbigger, faster, stronger.\u201d Could Jake Paul somehow pull up the upset? Sure, and it would be one for the ages. That\u2019s not likely going to happen, though. The truth about Jake Paul versus Anthony Joshua is that Paul\u2019s most likely heading for quite a beating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By: Sean Crose \u201cBigger, faster, stronger.\u201d Those were the words the great Ray Mancini said to me 10…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-293163","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\/293163","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=293163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}