Most Valuable Promotions<\/a>. \u201cIf I can break his soul, and I can break his mentality, then I\u2019ve broken Jake. That\u2019s why I say I\u2019ve got to take his soul. It\u2019s not just physical, I\u2019ve got to take your soul in the ring.<\/p>\n\u201cI\u2019ve just seen in fights where I can see someone\u2019s, let\u2019s call it energy, frequency, leaving their body. That\u2019s what my goal is: to do the same to you. You have that instinct. You can see it when you\u2019re fighting. You can just see a small glimmer of someone that\u2019s just about to start fading, and then you just keep exploiting that, keep exploiting that, keep exploiting that until some people give up. Some people get knocked out. We\u2019ll figure out.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to break him down spiritually and mentally.\u201d<\/p>\n
Paul was originally scheduled to face Gervonta Davis in November, but a civil allegation against Davis of domestic violence led MVP to cancel the event, and Joshua stepped in as a new opponent.<\/p>\n
A two-time unified heavyweight champion, Joshua also won Olympic gold in 2012, and remains one of the top heavyweights in boxing today. Joshua\u2019s most recent fight was a loss to Daniel Dubois for the IBF heavyweight title in September of 2024, making this a fairly large step back in competition, and \u201cAJ\u201d was at least honest aboutwhat drew him to the matchup.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not a YouTuber, a social media expert; I\u2019m a fighter first and foremost. But I understood how to navigate my way through this industry, and from day one, I knew how to make money,\u201d Joshua said. \u201cBefore I come into boxing, I knew how to make money. So, it\u2019s always been a money grab, 100 percent. And I think now, this generation are really showing you have to have your Ps and Qs in order, get your money, and also work hard, and leave the game with your brains and your money intact. So, it\u2019s a money grab, it\u2019s legacy, it\u2019s a fight, it\u2019s war. That\u2019s what we\u2019re going to war for, to get the goods.\u201d<\/p>\n
But, while this may be a \u201ccash grab\u201d for Joshua, he does at least give Paul credit for the seriousness with which he\u2019s pursued boxing.<\/p>\n
\u201cI see someone who is trying to perfect his skills, someone who is trying to perfect his boxing skills,\u201d Joshua said of Paul. \u201c\u2026 Jake\u2019s trying to become a boxer, and I respect it. I think that\u2019s one of the hardest styles to perfect. Hit, be slick, not get hit, look for that knockout punch, and he\u2019s taken the hard road doing it that way, because most people will go into a gym and just try to fight. But Jake\u2019s taking that road, and I respect it.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow, he\u2019s going to come up against someone who took that road as well. \u2026 So, he\u2019s going to come against someone who has been doing exactly what he\u2019s doing, for a lot longer.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anthony Joshua plans on not just beating Jake Paul but breaking him. This Friday, former unified heavyweight champion…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,1920,1347,85],"class_list":["post-350304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-latest-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350304","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=350304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}