{"id":356273,"date":"2025-12-18T15:07:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T15:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/356273\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T15:07:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T15:07:10","slug":"jake-paul-v-anthony-joshua-mismatch-latest-show-of-how-much-boxing-landscape-has-changed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/356273\/","title":{"rendered":"Jake Paul v Anthony Joshua mismatch latest show of how much boxing landscape has changed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Jake Paul and Anthony Joshua will bring another year of seismic shifts in boxing to an end in Miami on Friday night in a mismatch that illustrates how much the sport has changed, with online fame now almost as important as punching power.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">YouTuber-turned-pugilist Paul, who is stepping up from cruiserweight, is seeking to burnish his reputation against the 36-year-old British former heavyweight champ, who was knocked down four times as he lost his most recent fight, an IBF heavyweight title bout with Daniel Dubois in September 2024.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Channelling former boxing great Muhammad Ali, Paul said: \u201cYou know, it\u2019s boxing, boxing skill, boxing on the outside. He\u2019s obviously going to come forward, bring the pressure, be the bigger man. And it\u2019s just being slick, float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">While Ali took on a few odd-but-lucrative engagements in his time, such as a mixed-rules fight with professional wrestler Antonio Inoki in 1976, he would hardly recognise boxing\u2019s new world, even if money was still the main motivator.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Joshua, whose career began an alarming slide after he lost his four heavyweight belts to Andy Ruiz in a shocking upset in 2019, has been promised a reputed US$50 million plus bonuses for the fight, which will be shown on streaming platform Netflix.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jake Paul (left) is stepping up from cruiserweight to take on heavyweight Anthony Joshua. Photo: Reuters\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/11d8b57f-de39-41f9-b00a-4cbeeca8e2fe_fa8143f5.jpg\" title=\"Jake Paul (left) is stepping up from cruiserweight to take on heavyweight Anthony Joshua. Photo: Reuters\"\/>Jake Paul (left) is stepping up from cruiserweight to take on heavyweight Anthony Joshua. Photo: Reuters<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Netflix audience brings together diehard boxing fans who will be eager to see what Joshua has left in the tank, and youthful admirers of Paul, with the former hoping Joshua wins convincingly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jake Paul and Anthony Joshua will bring another year of seismic shifts in boxing to an end in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[26645,23735,195020,8075,64,63,42485,802,957,7701,195114,9225,5140,8199,435,102536,85,959,8691],"class_list":["post-356273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-ali","tag-anderson-silva","tag-andy-ruiz","tag-anthony-joshua","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-ben-askren","tag-boxing","tag-canelo-alvarez","tag-daniel-dubois","tag-ibf-heavyweight-title","tag-jake-paul","tag-miami","tag-mike-tyson","tag-netflix","tag-otto-wallin","tag-sports","tag-terence-crawford","tag-tyson-fury"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356273","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=356273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}