YouTube<\/a> channel and he\u2019s less concerned about whether Joshua can avoid an upset than he is about whether he might beat Paul so badly that Paul decides he\u2019s done with boxing.<\/p>\n\u201cIt\u2019s a real fight and if it is, this is ridiculous,\u201d Bisping said. \u201cThis is absolute nonsense, but especially when you hear Anthony Joshua say, \u2018If he dies, he dies.\u2019 \u2018If I can kill him, I\u2019ll kill him.\u2019 \u2026 Sometimes when you get beaten, yeah, he might not have long-term injuries. He might not have his brain scrambled. He might not even get knocked out, but he might get beaten up so badly that he never wants to step foot in a boxing ring again. I\u2019m telling you, that is the loneliest place on the planet.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bisping understands that Paul agreeing to fight the far more experienced Joshua makes sense on paper as Paul has frequently stated his goal is to become a world champion in boxing; however, any respect Paul has earned from signing on for a previously inconceivable matchup won\u2019t mean anything if he ends up getting badly hurt\u2014or worse.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes, if he wins, incredible,\u201d Bisping said. \u201cWow, what a story. The biggest upset in the history of combat sports, right? It would be. I would be insane. But if he loses, well he\u2019s got nothing to lose because the man\u2019s shown gigantic balls. Wow, what a guy, right? He\u2019s going to step in there against Anthony Joshua. This guy doesn\u2019t care.<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, that\u2019s all well and good as long as No. 1, you don\u2019t die. Secondly, you don\u2019t have brain damage. Thirdly, what about if you just get knocked out? What if you get knocked out so bad and beaten up so badly you never want to step foot in a ring ever again?\u201d<\/p>\n
Paul, for the most part, has avoided any major damage in his brief boxing career. The 28-year-old and his team have wisely picked their opposition so far, including racking up victories over older MMA stars, and Paul\u2019s only loss was an uneventful split call against reality television show star Tommy Fury (the half-brother of heavyweight boxing great Tyson Fury).<\/p>\n
But just because Paul has kept himself out of serious danger this long doesn\u2019t mean he\u2019s invincible. Bisping thinks there\u2019s an excellent chance his luck finally runs out Friday.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn fights like this in the boxing world, stuff can go wrong,\u201d Bisping said. \u201cYou can only punch to the head. This isn\u2019t mixed martial arts and Anthony Joshua hits really hard. A kind of power that Jake Paul does not know what he\u2019s getting himself in for. It\u2019s as simple as that.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou don\u2019t play at boxing,\u201d he added. \u201cYou have to respect boxing and you have to respect the consequences, the weight classes, the rules, and just what it takes. Fair play to Jake Paul because this is a very dangerous thing that he is doing. I hope he makes it out of the ring on the other side OK. I hope he has no long-term injuries because I\u2019ll tell you what, there is a very good, serious chance that something goes wrong here. It\u2019s crazy that this has even been sanctioned in the first place. This is very, very dangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jake Paul might survive a fight with Anthony Joshua, but can his career? Unsurprisingly, Joshua, a two-time heavyweight…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,711,49,48,701,82,640,702],"class_list":{"0":"post-354029","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-boxing-news","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-latest-news","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-ufc","15":"tag-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354029","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=354029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}