{"id":354111,"date":"2025-12-18T21:52:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T21:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/354111\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T21:52:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T21:52:10","slug":"anthony-joshua-weighs-in-almost-two-stone-heavier-than-jake-paul-ahead-of-blockbuster-miami-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/354111\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Joshua weighs in almost TWO STONE heavier than Jake Paul ahead of blockbuster Miami showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

By JEFF POWELL IN MIAMI <\/p>\n

Published: 15:27 EST, 18 December 2025 | Updated: 15:27 EST, 18 December 2025 <\/p>\n

If the hoorah showman was hoping the heavyweight champion would be drained by fighting at his lowest poundage for years, Anthony Joshua<\/a> has been quick to rain on that phase of Jake Paul<\/a>‘s parade.<\/p>\n

As he came to the scales 1.6lbs inside the 245lbs limit imposed by The Problem Child, AJ insisted: ‘I’ve made the weight easily. No problem.’<\/p>\n

Balancing this Friday’s act between the accomplished and experienced Joshua and Paul the brilliant entrepreneur but smaller man was always going to be a delicate judgment.<\/p>\n

\"Jake <\/p>\n

Jake Paul shows his emotions at the weigh-in before the big fight on Friday night<\/p>\n

\"Anthony <\/p>\n

Anthony Joshua had previously stood by his claims he would ‘kill’ Paul in the ring<\/p>\n

Joshua has weighed over 250lbs in his occasional bouts of late and to make this more of a fight than a mismatch Paul should probably have ordered him to make 240lbs.<\/p>\n

Joshua’s promoter Eddie Hearn claimed the credit by overstating to camp Paul how heavily his man walks around between fights.<\/p>\n

The disparity between them was emphasised at the official weigh-in as Paul – at 216.6lbs – scaled some four pounds less than when he defeated Mike Tyson in his only previous incursion into the heavyweight division… and nearly two stone lighter than Joshua.<\/p>\n

And, oh dear, when he roared ‘champ you know who I are’ he clearly did so through a sore throat and a bad cold.<\/p>\n

Joshua was not yet in the building to hear that. Not that he needed to be.<\/p>\n

So far it’s all good news for him.<\/p>\n

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