{"id":350745,"date":"2025-12-17T09:02:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T09:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/350745\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T09:02:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T09:02:07","slug":"jake-paul-vs-anthony-joshua-eddie-hearn-has-no-real-defence-for-bout-but-insists-fight-not-scripted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/350745\/","title":{"rendered":"Jake Paul vs Anthony Joshua: Eddie Hearn has no &#8216;real defence&#8217; for bout but insists fight not scripted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jake and his team are hoping for a lot of things. Hoping AJ is underestimating him, hoping AJ is shot, hoping AJ&#8217;s inactivity will cost him, hoping AJ is low in confidence, hoping AJ&#8217;s chin isn&#8217;t what it once was.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But, unfortunately for them, AJ is super switched on. He&#8217;s had a camp and he&#8217;s training like he&#8217;s fighting Oleksandr Usyk or in a Daniel Dubois rematch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">I expect my fighter to win inside two rounds with a devastating knockout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He could hit Jake to the body and he would break his ribs and he wouldn&#8217;t be able to get up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If he hits him clean, he will knock him spark out. Or the referee could jump in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We don&#8217;t know how it could play out but with the way AJ punches &#8211; with the speed and destruction &#8211; as soon as Jake is hit on the chin, the fight is over.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Then we go back to AJ&#8217;s two goals he wants to achieve in the time he has left in this sport &#8211; to fight Fury and to become a three-time world heavyweight champion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Eddie Hearn was speaking to BBC Sport&#8217;s Kal Sajad. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jake and his team are hoping for a lot of things. Hoping AJ is underestimating him, hoping AJ&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-350745","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\/350745","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=350745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}