Ring Magazine<\/a>. \u201cA couple of right hands from the gods but he\u2019s just not big enough, he doesn\u2019t punch hard enough. I\u2019m sure he got his attention but he certainly wasn\u2019t wobbled.<\/p>\n\u201cYou\u2019ve got to understand, [Jake Paul] was so far out of his depth. It was a horrendous mismatch. It was always a horrendous mismatch so you can\u2019t expect him to go in there and stand and trade for three minutes. His job was to survive and look how far he got. I didn\u2019t expect him to go that many rounds.\u201d<\/p>\n
As far as Paul winning rounds, Hearn believes that\u2019s a dubious proclamation at best, especially considering the official scorecards for the event have never been released by the Florida Athletic Commission.<\/p>\n
Hearn concedes there may have been a lone round that was a bit of a tossup but that\u2019s mostly due to inactivity from both Paul and Joshua. Otherwise, he didn\u2019t see any round where Paul possibly bested Joshua on the scorecards.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere probably was a round that was quite close because no one actually did anything,\u201d Hearn said. \u201cIt\u2019s strange they haven\u2019t released the scorecards. Because I\u2019m sure if they won rounds, MVP would have gone \u2018look!\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t believe he won any rounds on the scorecards but listen maybe he did, I don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n
When it comes to the knockout, Hearn admits he thought that would happen earlier but he also appreciated that Joshua got some extra ring time following a lengthy layoff before facing Paul in December.<\/p>\n
Hearn acknowledged that Paul suffering a broken jaw is definitely a serious injury, especially when it comes to boxing, but he commended the 29-year-old influencer for eating that punch and not going unconscious.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe injury is a shocker and it\u2019s not one you can necessarily bounce back from,\u201d Hearn said about Paul\u2019s broken jaw. \u201cI know at the moment it\u2019s like \u2018yeah [I\u2019ll be back]\u2019 but especially when you\u2019ve got lots of other stuff in your life as well.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I think Jake Paul deserves a huge amount of respect because he did it in the first place. He landed some shots and he took some decent shots. By the way, the shot that broke his jaw would have flatlined most heavyweights and he went down and went \u2018wow!\u2019 So you have to give him credit. The whole experience was fantastic.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jake Paul may have gotten his jaw broken in a knockout loss to Anthony Joshua but the former…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,1920,1347,85],"class_list":["post-373589","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\/373589","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=373589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}