{"id":313590,"date":"2025-11-29T03:36:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T03:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/313590\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T03:36:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T03:36:10","slug":"eddie-hearn-sends-anthony-joshua-retirement-message-before-jake-paul-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/313590\/","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Hearn Sends Anthony Joshua Retirement Message Before Jake Paul Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Very few people in the boxing world are giving Jake Paul any chance of beating Anthony Joshua when these two face off in Miami, Florida, on December 19. <\/p>\n

Since Joshua has such a distinct size and experience disadvantage, anything less than him putting Paul’s lights out within the first two rounds is probably going to be seen as a defeat for Joshua, regardless of whether he gets his hand raised. <\/p>\n

In fact, Queensberry Promotions founder Frank Warren took this sentiment a step further<\/a> by saying, “If [Joshua] looks bad against Jake Paul, when you consider the experience he has and what Jake Paul’s got, then I think he should turn it in.”<\/p>\n

He later added, “It’s a massive, massive step up for [Paul]; it’s a massive step up. Fighting a natural heavyweight, a big guy, a two-time heavyweight world champion, Olympic gold medalist, all that, it’s a massive, massive first step up, and he’ll go in as a big underdog, a big, big underdog.” <\/p>\n

\"Anthony<\/p>\n

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Eddie Hearn Addresses Anthony Joshua Retiring If He Loses to Jake Paul<\/p>\n

Of course, Warren has been a promotional rival for Joshua for his entire career, which makes this sentiment from him not surprising in the slightest. But Joshua’s own promoter, Eddie Hearn, also sent a message that it may be Joshua’s time to retire if he falters against Paul during a November 27 interview<\/a> with ProBoxingFans.<\/p>\n

“Yeah, I do,” Hearn said with a smile when asked whether he stands by saying he and Joshua must retire if Jake wins next month. He then added, “I suppose so. S***, yeah. Look, I don’t see a world where Jake Paul wins this fight. I know that boxing is boxing.”<\/p>\n

“I won’t retire. AJ should retire if he loses,” Hearn continued with a laugh. “I see AJ winning this fight with ease, comprehensively, destructively, violently. And I don’t see a world where Jake Paul is competitive in the fight, let alone win the fight. But luckily, AJ is not preparing in a way that he just thinks it’s a joke. He’s preparing for Jake Paul like he’s a world title contender.” <\/p>\n

\u203c\ufe0f Eddie Hearn on whether him and Anthony Joshua should retire if Jake Paul wins \u274c\ud83e\udd14<\/p>\n

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\u2014 IFN (@IfnBoxing) November 28, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n

“We should just slide through this guy, and bash him up, and beat him up, and we should do it early doors,” Hearn concluded. <\/p>\n

Hearn is surely hoping these words don’t come back to haunt him come fight night.<\/p>\n

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