{"id":298036,"date":"2025-11-21T18:52:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T18:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/298036\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T18:52:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T18:52:06","slug":"joshua-v-paul-promoter-eddie-hearn-says-he-misled-mvp-about-britons-weight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/298036\/","title":{"rendered":"Joshua v Paul: Promoter Eddie Hearn says he misled MVP about Briton’s weight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Promoter Eddie Hearn says he misled Jake Paul’s representatives by claiming Anthony Joshua was heavier than he was in order to agree a favourable weight stipulation for their fight.<\/p>\n

Briton Joshua, a former two-time unified heavyweight champion, will face the YouTuber-turned-boxer at the Kaseya Center in Miami on 19 December.<\/a><\/p>\n

Joshua has weighed more than 250lb (17st 12lb) in each of his past three fights, but must come in under 245lb (17st 7lb). Both fighters will wear regulation 10oz gloves.<\/p>\n

“I spoke to AJ and he was sitting at 265lb (18st 13lb) or something like that. I think I told Nakisa [Bidarian – co-founder of Most Valuable Promotions] that he was 290lb (20st) or something like that,” Hearn told the 5 Live Boxing podcast<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The fight, streamed live on Netflix, is scheduled for eight three-minute rounds.<\/p>\n

It will be a professional contest between one of Britain’s most decorated heavyweights and a former Disney Channel actor who has reinvented himself as a pay-per-view attraction.<\/p>\n

“I said I’m not interested in balloon gloves and two-minute rounds but he said it was a real fight. I asked if it was 10 rounds or eight rounds – they said fine to eight,” Hearn added. <\/p>\n

“They said ‘the only thing is that Jake will weigh about 220lb (15st 10lb) or 225lb (16st 1lb) and we want AJ to come down in weight’.<\/p>\n

“He’s a heavyweight and hasn’t cut weight before. They said, ‘look we’re not being funny and it’s not that we need an advantage but we need you to have some disadvantage’.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Promoter Eddie Hearn says he misled Jake Paul’s representatives by claiming Anthony Joshua was heavier than he was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-298036","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}