{"id":334814,"date":"2025-12-08T11:41:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T11:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/334814\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T11:41:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T11:41:08","slug":"anthony-joshua-clears-up-any-concerns-that-jake-paul-fight-is-scripted-or-fixed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/334814\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Joshua clears up any ‘concerns’ that Jake Paul fight is scripted or fixed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Next Friday, Anthony Joshua<\/a> takes on Jake Paul<\/a> in a controversial heavyweight clash in Miami.<\/p>\n

YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul has been written off by the masses throughout his professional boxing career, with fans \u2014 and even some high profile names in the sport \u2014 suggesting that his fights are fixed, scripted or have conditions for opponents to not give 100%.<\/a> Paul\u2019s promotional company, MVP, has responded in the strongest of terms, threatening legal action and pointing out that such actions are a federal crime.<\/p>\n

Despite that, should Paul register a Buster Douglas-style upset in Miami, he will undoubtedly face more of the same online.<\/p>\n

In an interview with TMZ Sports<\/a>, Joshua said that he \u2018understands those concerns\u2019 but assured his fans that his fight, and indeed all of those previous, is a genuine one.<\/p>\n

\u201cI understand their concerns, but this is the thing with Jake, they have got to start believing in him. They don\u2019t believe it because they\u2019re saying, \u2018how is he beating these guys?\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think they [the fans] can\u2019t get their heads around how he has beaten Anderson Silva, how did he beat Nate Diaz? How did he beat Mike Tyson?<\/p>\n

\u201cI am telling you, there is no stipulation in the contract where I have to take it easy on him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Paul-Joshua will be an eight-round affair with 10-ounce gloves<\/a> and will be available to watch live on Netflix with a standard subscription. Joshua has said he is looking to produce a stoppage as quick as possible, something many fear could cause serious damage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Next Friday, Anthony Joshua takes on Jake Paul in a controversial heavyweight clash in Miami. YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-334814","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\/334814","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=334814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}