After being knocked out in the sixth round of his boxing match against Anthony Joshua on Friday evening, Jake Paul had this to say about his “ass whooping.”<\/p>\n
“…This sport has helped me so much in my life. I think my jaw is broken by the way,” Paul said as he spit blood onto the mat. “Yea, it’s definitely broke.”<\/p>\n
“Man, that was good. Nice little ass whooping from one of the best to ever do it, so, I love this s–t, I’m gonna come back and get a world championship belt at some point.”<\/p>\n
Paul did take some punishment in this one. Per CompuBox<\/a>, Joshua landed on 48 of his 146 punches thrown (33 percent). The final combination was brutal, and Paul fell to the mat with a hard right hand from Joshua.<\/p>\n In addition, Joshua also won every round until the knockout, per the opinion of ESPN’s\u00a0Andreas Hale<\/a>, who\u00a0had the fight 50-44 through five rounds.<\/p>\n Paul has almost always been on the winning end of his fights, reigning victorious in 12 of 14 professional matches with seven knockouts. However, Joshua is a two-time unified heavyweight champion and stood as Paul’s toughest competition to date. He was a heavy favorite going into this match, and that held true.<\/p>\n Paul did end up going six rounds, and combat sports journalist Ariel Helwani asked him whether he was surprised about that after the match.<\/p>\n “Honestly, I’m not surprised. I just got tired to be honest. There was just so much handling his weight. I think if I could of had better cardio, I think I could have kept it up and kept on fighting. But he did amazing, he hits really hard, and I just did my personal best.”<\/p>\n Both fighters showed their respect to one another, with Joshua doing the same in his post-fight interview.<\/p>\n Joshua also called out retired ex-champion Tyson Fury. The two have been rumored to fight in the past, but a match has not come to fruition. It’s clear Joshua would like to see that change. Fury’s promoter, Frank Warren, told Sky Sports News<\/a> earlier this month that his client would fight Joshua if it’s the “right deal” and that negotiations were happening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After being knocked out in the sixth round of his boxing match against Anthony Joshua on Friday evening,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-360097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360097","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=360097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}