{"id":350156,"date":"2025-12-17T02:21:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T02:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/350156\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T02:21:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T02:21:10","slug":"paddy-pimblett-pleads-for-anthony-joshua-to-punch-jake-pauls-head-in-in-upcoming-boxing-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/350156\/","title":{"rendered":"Paddy Pimblett pleads for Anthony Joshua to &#8216;punch Jake Paul&#8217;s head in&#8217; in upcoming boxing match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC lightweight superstar Paddy Pimblett didn\u2019t hold back on Jake Paul ahead of his upcoming boxing match against Anthony Joshua.<\/p>\n<p>Paddy Pimblett is a little over a month away from challenging for the interim lightweight title against Justin Gaethje at UFC 324. Pimblett and Gaethje headline a stacked card next month as the UFC kicks off its 2026 event slate on its new broadcasting home, Paramount+.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, Pimblett is in the middle of fight camp and looks in supreme condition ahead of the Gaethje fight. While Pimblett and Gaethje share mutual respect, they\u2019ll look to earn the right to face <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/ilia-topuria\/ilia-topuria-shockingly-ends-feud-paddy-pimblett\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">undisputed lightweight champ Ilia Topuria upon the latter\u2019s return<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Pimblett is also on Jake Paul\u2019s hit list for a potential fight in the boxing ring, after Paul\u2019s upcoming fight with former heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua. Joshua presents the toughest test of Paul\u2019s polarizing boxing career, and few are giving him a chance to get the win on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Pimblett, who has had some history with Paul, hopes Joshua puts a brutal end to the hype surrounding Paul and his boxing ambitions.<\/p>\n<p>Paddy Pimblett reignites Jake Paul beef with hopeful prediction<\/p>\n<p>In a recent video uploaded to his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DSVZz8vCNcn\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a>, Pimblett was asked to give his thoughts on the Paul vs. Joshua fight.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t get over how made this is. How does this helmet think he\u2019s going to have a go at AJ?\u201d Pimblett said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook at the size difference. We all want to see AJ absolutely punch his head in, we might as well help the little \u2014\u2013 out, I have an idea actually to help him out with that five-inch reach height advantage [Jake] keeps moaning about\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Paul made Pimblett <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/ufc\/paddy-pimblett-believes-jake-paul-was-bluffing-with-sparring-challenge-hell-never-have-it-with-someone-on-an-even-playing-field\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a lucrative sparring match offer<\/a> in 2022, which never came to fruition. Pimblett has remained critical of Paul\u2019s career amidst his UFC rise.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, Pimblett and other prominent UFC stars aren\u2019t buying what Paul\u2019s selling ahead of this Friday night.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC lightweight superstar Paddy Pimblett didn\u2019t hold back on Jake Paul ahead of his upcoming boxing match against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[5276,703,49,48,5277,638,15502,82,640],"class_list":{"0":"post-350156","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-anthony-joshua","9":"tag-boxing","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-jake-paul","13":"tag-mma","14":"tag-paddy-pimblett","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-ufc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350156","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=350156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}