{"id":323367,"date":"2025-12-03T20:27:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T20:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/323367\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T20:27:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T20:27:05","slug":"roberto-duran-sums-up-anthony-joshua-fighting-jake-paul-perfectly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/323367\/","title":{"rendered":"Roberto Duran sums up Anthony Joshua fighting Jake Paul perfectly"},"content":{"rendered":"

Roberto Duran<\/a> has shared his thoughts on Anthony Joshua<\/a> and Jake Paul<\/a> preparing to go toe-to-toe in their heavyweight dust-up on December 19.<\/p>\n

The pair will square off in an eight-round professional contest at the Kaseya Center, Miami<\/a>, with many deeming this to be a rather straightforward comeback fight for Joshua.<\/p>\n

\u2018AJ\u2019 has not fought since his fifth-round stoppage defeat to Daniel Dubois in September 2024, where he touched the canvas four times.<\/p>\n

Since then, the 36-year-old has opted to leave Ben Davison, the head coach for his last three outings, and join the training team of heavyweight king Oleksandr Usyk.<\/p>\n

This, Joshua believes, should allow the two-time world champion to not only rediscover his prior form, but also add a few extra strings to his bow.<\/p>\n

After his fight with Paul, which he expects to come through in emphatic fashion, Joshua is then set to return to action as soon as February rolls around.<\/p>\n

Expecting a far tougher challenge than what his upcoming assignment will likely offer, it is perhaps unsurprising that the Olympic champion has made these major changes to his training set-up.<\/p>\n

As for Paul, it would appear that the majority of fans are not even giving the YouTuber-turned-boxer a chance of causing a monumental upset later this month.<\/a><\/p>\n

In fact, there are some who have suggested that the matchup could be scripted, or at least includes several elements that may make it a more competitive spectacle.<\/p>\n

One of those more sceptical onlookers, it seems, is Duran, who has revealed his view of the controversial fight in an interview with IFL TV<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is obviously not a real fight; it\u2019s just a pure film. I\u2019m very interested to see what happens but, if it was a real fight, I think we all know what would happen.<\/p>\n

\u201cWill it be a film or will it be the real thing? If it\u2019s going to be scripted, talk to my sons \u2013 they\u2019ll know what will happen.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roberto Duran has shared his thoughts on Anthony Joshua and Jake Paul preparing to go toe-to-toe in their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-323367","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\/323367","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=323367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}