{"id":329208,"date":"2025-12-07T00:08:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T00:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/329208\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T00:08:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T00:08:07","slug":"boxing-hall-of-famer-on-anthon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/329208\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing Hall of Famer on Anthon&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As anticipation builds for the showdown between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/sports\/a\/bernadette-giacomazzo\/anthony-joshua-agreed-to-jake-paul-fight-due-to-reported-s50m-payout\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anthony Joshua<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/tag\/jake-paul\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jake Paul<\/a>, Boxing Hall of Famer Barry McGuigan has shared his thoughts about the fight, and how he believes Paul could easily end up &#8220;knock[ed] into next week.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The former WBA world champion believes the mismatch is so extreme that it&#8217;s hard to imagine Paul escaping.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in a recent interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.betway.com\/boxing\/barry-mcguigan-ben-whittakers-knocking-on-door-of-world-title-fight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Betway Insider<\/a>, McGuigan bluntly questioned how the bout even came together without restrictions. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s hard to believe they wouldn\u2019t have signed some sort of caveat,\u201d he said. \u201cHow is Joshua being matched with this guy? Look at it coldly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McGuigan didn\u2019t mince words when comparing Joshua\u2019s proven power to Paul\u2019s r\u00e9sum\u00e9. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook at what Joshua did to Francis Ngannou\u2014a giant of a man, built like a tank, who went 12 rounds with Tyson Fury,\u201d he said. \u201cJoshua blasted him out in a couple of rounds.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The Irish boxing legend speculated that Joshua would have to rein himself in, or things could get very bad for Paul, very quickly. <\/p>\n<p>\u201c[I]f Joshua hits him clean once, in the right place, he could break his jaw, knock him out cold, put him in a bad state,&#8221; McGuigan said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that Joshua is \u201cin a different league,\u201d while Paul is \u201cnot a heavyweight,\u201d describing him instead as closer to a cruiserweight. McGuigan even suggested the bout is so mismatched that it risks becoming &#8220;a freak show.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Anyone with any sense knows that if Joshua hits him like he hit Ngannou, he\u2019ll knock him into next week,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>That concern isn\u2019t coming from speculation alone. McGuigan knows the realities of elite boxing better than most. Nicknamed The Clones Cyclone, he held both the WBA and lineal featherweight titles in the mid-1980s and later built a career as a promoter and analyst. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As anticipation builds for the showdown between Anthony Joshua and Jake Paul, Boxing Hall of Famer Barry McGuigan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-329208","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\/329208","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=329208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}