{"id":358120,"date":"2025-12-20T18:11:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T18:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/358120\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T18:11:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T18:11:10","slug":"anthony-joshua-gives-jake-paul-advice-after-ko-win-he-needs-to-work-harder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/358120\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Joshua Gives Jake Paul Advice After KO Win, &#8216;He Needs to Work Harder&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">After scoring a sixth-round knockout against Jake Paul on Friday night, Anthony Joshua shared a piece of advice for his opponent if he wants to continue fighting at heavyweight. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Speaking to reporters after the bout, Joshua explained that Paul &#8220;needs to work harder&#8221; because it&#8217;s &#8220;very difficult&#8221; to compete at the top of level of the heavyweight division.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Joshua was also hard on himself because he didn&#8217;t think his performance was up to his personal standard:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">&#8220;No, I needed to do better. I needed to do better,&#8221; Joshua\u00a0<a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/47365304\/anthony-joshua-boxing-grades-jake-paul-victory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">said<\/a>\u00a0when asked if he thought this was a successful showing. &#8220;No. I needed to do better. No, it&#8217;s a win, but it&#8217;s not a success. I think my coach expects more from me, and I expect more for myself. But what can we do? We can&#8217;t reverse the clock. I have to move forward. I have to put that in the past now. After today, you may see a bit of social media trying to lap up all of the algorithm attention, but for me, it&#8217;s in the past. I can&#8217;t live off of that win. I&#8217;ve got a lot of improvement that I need to do, so yeah, I&#8217;m not happy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Paul was at a huge disadvantage coming into the bout. He is\u00a0<a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/25332929-jake-paul-vs-anthony-joshua-weigh-results-revealed-how-big-gap-between-boxers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">significantly smaller<\/a>\u00a0than Joshua and is not experienced at heavyweight, with the exception of the circus that was his matchup with Mike Tyson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Even though Joshua hadn&#8217;t fought in 15 months and his last appearance was a knockout loss against Daniel Dubois, he is one of the most accomplished heavyweight fighters of this era and still close to his prime years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">For most of his professional boxing career, Paul has competed as a cruiserweight. If he wants to stay heavyweight going forward, it might be in his best interest to take on lower-profile opponents than someone like Joshua to build up his body for the rigors of this level.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">It was evident in this match that Joshua was so far above and beyond Paul in terms of skill and talent. The final result bore that out with Joshua\u00a0<a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/beta.compuboxdata.com\/round-stats\/15942\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">connecting<\/a>\u00a0on 32 more punches overall, including 23 more power punches.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After scoring a sixth-round knockout against Jake Paul on Friday night, Anthony Joshua shared a piece of advice&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-358120","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\/358120","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=358120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}