{"id":64630,"date":"2025-08-13T08:31:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T08:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/64630\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T08:31:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T08:31:07","slug":"anthony-joshua-vs-jake-paul-dillian-whyte-backs-potential-bout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/64630\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Joshua vs Jake Paul: Dillian Whyte backs potential bout"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dillian Whyte has thrown his weight behind a potential showdown between former heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua and YouTube-sensation-turned-boxer Jake Paul.<\/p>\n

The 37-year-old, who faces Moses Itauma on Saturday in Saudi Arabia<\/a>, has given his opinion on the prospect of a showdown between Joshua and Paul.<\/p>\n

“It’s a business, man. If [Joshua v Paul] makes sense and does numbers, why not?” he told the BBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“[Joshua] has won the championship twice, had a lot of fights and done a lot so I don’t know.<\/p>\n

“I’m sure he’ll make more money than he did in some of his title fights so sometimes if you can make some money then make some money.”<\/p>\n

Dillian Whyte was beaten by Anthony Joshua in a fight for the British title in 2015.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

Joshua’s promoter Eddie Hearn recently revealed talks are ongoing over a potential bout with Paul.<\/p>\n

“At first I thought it was a publicity stunt from Jake and now the more I speak to them the more I actually understand — Jake Paul thinks he can beat Anthony Joshua,’ Hearn told the BBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Whyte also touched upon fighting Joshua himself and wants to avenge his seventh round KO loss in 2015<\/a> when the pair fought for the British heavyweight title.<\/p>\n

“I would love to have a chance to right my wrong,” Whyte said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dillian Whyte has thrown his weight behind a potential showdown between former heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua and YouTube-sensation-turned-boxer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-64630","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\/64630","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=64630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}