{"id":322182,"date":"2025-12-03T07:00:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T07:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/322182\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T07:00:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T07:00:18","slug":"boxing-anthony-joshuas-fight-with-jake-paul-is-like-comparing-rolls-royce-to-fiat-usyk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/322182\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing: Anthony Joshua&#8217;s fight with Jake Paul is like comparing Rolls-Royce to Fiat- Usyk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WBA, IBF and WBC heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk has delivered a damning description of Anthony Joshua\u2019s upcoming bout with Jake Paul.<\/p>\n<p>The two-time undisputed boxing heavyweight champion made this comment in an interview according to Boxing Scene ahead of Joshua\u2019s bout against YouTuber turned boxer Jake Paul on December 19 in Miami.<\/p>\n<p>The lucrative bout, which will earn each fighter $50 million, has been largely panned by several stakeholders with American heavyweight boxer Jermaine Franklin calling the bout \u201crubbish\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/citisportsonline.com\/2025\/12\/i-want-to-fight-famous-and-interesting-deontay-wilder-next-oleksandr-usyk\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">After voicing his wish to fight Deontay Wilder next year, Ukrainian boxer Usyk made his prediction for the upcoming bout.<\/a> (Click highlighted text to read full story)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Anthony Joshua wants [to], he can kill this guy-Jake Paul.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-608434\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Usyk-2-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\"  \/>Oleksandr Usyk poses for a photo with the title belts after victory over Daniel Dubois (not pictured) following their IBF, IBO, WBC and WBO World Heavyweight titles\u2019 fight on the \u2018Undisputed\u2019 fight (Photo by Richard Pelham\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are a lot of questions but there is only one answer, Anthony Joshua is an Olympic Champion [in 2012] first, Jake Paul is a sportsman, youtuber, a showman. That\u2019s [like comparing a] Rolls-Royce and Fiat. It\u2019s just true\u201d Usyk said in a paraphrased statement.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-615616\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Paul-1-1024x640.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"601\" height=\"376\"  \/>USA\u2019s Jake Paul fights during his cruiserweight boxing match against Mexico\u2019s Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>The fight against Jake Paul would be Joshua\u2019s first after getting knocked out by Daniel Dubois in 2024.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-615830\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Joshua-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"602\" height=\"401\"  \/>Coach Derrick James speaks to Anthony Joshua in between rounds during the Heavyweight fight between Anthony Joshua and Jermaine Franklin at The O2 Arena on April 01, 2023 (Photo by James Chance\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WBA, IBF and WBC heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk has delivered a damning description of Anthony Joshua\u2019s upcoming bout&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-322182","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\/322182","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=322182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}