{"id":3769,"date":"2025-07-17T21:14:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T21:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/3769\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T21:14:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T21:14:08","slug":"turki-alalshikh-jake-paul-accepted-fight-against-anthony-joshua-plans-to-speak-to-joshua-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/3769\/","title":{"rendered":"Turki Alalshikh: Jake Paul \u2018accepted\u2019 fight against Anthony Joshua, plans to speak to Joshua next"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"Seqb1n\">If <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/fighter\/6264\/jake-paul\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jake Paul<\/a> wants to prove he\u2019s legit, Turki Alalshikh is ready to find a challenge for him.<\/p>\n<p id=\"HZGESb\">Following his lopsided win over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/fighter\/6752\/julio-cesar-chavez-jr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.<\/a>, the former YouTuber turned boxer ended up being ranked in the top 15 by the WBA in the cruiserweight division. That move upset a lot of boxing purists considering Paul still hasn\u2019t defeated an opponent with real boxing credentials, although others have pointed out that many fighters ranked by some of the major organizations in the sport aren\u2019t exactly facing killers early in their careers either.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ahXjfu\">That said, Alalshikh revealed he\u2019s ready to book Paul against former heavyweight champion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/fighter\/6465\/anthony-joshua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anthony Joshua<\/a> in a fight he\u2019ll promote so the world can find out if the 28-year-old Ohio native is for real or a fraud.<\/p>\n<p id=\"58ZRrQ\">\u201cI\u2019m not against him,\u201d Alalshikh said when addressing Paul on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ThaBoxingVoice\/status\/1945620903876071614\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Boxing Voice<\/a> podcast. \u201cI am against some kinds of fights he [does]. I want to tell you an example and a surprise. I am thinking me and him to doing him against Joshua now. I want to tell you something, Joshua if he destroys him, it will be good for me. The headache of Jake Paul is finished.<\/p>\n<p id=\"rv9fwK\">\u201cLet me explain it to you. Joshua against Jake Paul, if Joshua destroys him, the headache of Jake Paul will go from my mind. If Jake Paul win, I will know that Joshua is finished and Jake Paul deserves to be ranked and deserves to have a future in boxing. Right? Jake Paul accepted. Now next week I will talk with Joshua about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"mK0rhz\">Paul has mentioned Joshua as one of his ideal opponents for the future and now it appears Alalshikh is serious about booking that fight.<\/p>\n<p id=\"rXjq5Y\">Joshua\u2019s longtime promoter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/fighter\/6486\/eddie-hearn\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eddie Hearn<\/a> confirmed prior to the Ring III card this past weekend that he\u2019s spoken to Alalshikh about booking the fight and they\u2019re open to it.<\/p>\n<p id=\"V6wLfv\">The real fight Hearn wants to make is Joshua against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/fighter\/6477\/tyson-fury\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tyson Fury<\/a>, but he knows that matchup probably won\u2019t come together right away so he\u2019s open to the Paul fight in the interim.<\/p>\n<p id=\"2ol0wu\"> \u201cOur focus is to fight Tyson Fury, but [Joshua] needs a fight before then,\u201d Hearn told <a href=\"https:\/\/punchng.com\/hearn-confirms-joshua-vs-paul-fight\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boxing News.<\/a> \u201cIf that\u2019s Jake Paul, and if you guys want that fight, I know the numbers would be massive, the world would want to see it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"VG92N0\">Paul responded to the news on X.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I will do what I want, with who I want, when I want, in the boxing ring. <\/p>\n<p>Anyone, anytime, anyplace.<\/p>\n<p>You rodents talk so much shit but when I want to take on the biggest challenges you start having panic attacks and deciding my demise.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jake Paul (@jakepaul) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jakepaul\/status\/1945881675319103550?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 17, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If Jake Paul wants to prove he\u2019s legit, Turki Alalshikh is ready to find a challenge for him.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[4624,4625,2173,4626,703,711,49,48,1138,641,700,4622,4627,701,638,2551,4623,4628,4629,82,696,2172],"class_list":["post-3769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-accepted","tag-against","tag-alalshikh","tag-anthony","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fight","tag-fighting","tag-front-page","tag-jake","tag-joshua","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-next","tag-paul","tag-plans","tag-speak","tag-sports","tag-to","tag-turki"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3769","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=3769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}