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Jake Paul confirmed the fight with his trademark showmanship and bombast.<\/p>\n
This isn’t an AI simulation. This is Judgment Day.<\/p>\n
A professional heavyweight fight against an elite world champion in his prime. When I beat Anthony Joshua, every doubt disappears and no one can deny me the opportunity to fight for a world title.<\/p>\n
Jake Paul even had a message for UK boxing fans in Anthony Joshua’s corner.<\/p>\n
To the people of the United Kingdom, I am sorry\u2026 the torch gets passed and Britain\u2019s Goliath gets put to sleep.<\/p>\n
Anthony Joshua, returning for the first time since his knockout loss to Daniel Dubois, insists Jake Paul will learn a painful lesson.<\/p>\n
Jake or anyone can get this work. No mercy.<\/p>\n
I took some time out and I’m coming back with a mega show\u2026 I\u2019m about to break the internet over Jake Paul\u2019s face.<\/p>\n
Jake Paul was originally scheduled to face Gervonta Davis before the fight fell apart due to a civil lawsuit against the lightweight star.
Joshua\u2019s involvement has elevated the bout into one of the most unexpected boxing events of the last few years.<\/p>\n
Jake Paul enters the fight off a career-best win over Julio C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez Jr, while also previously beating Mike Tyson in a heavyweight exhibition.<\/p>\n
Anthony Joshua, meanwhile, is still one of the most decorated heavyweights of his era, a two-time world champion with 28 wins and victories over Klitschko and Ruiz.<\/p>\n
Joshua’s promoter Eddie Hearn was typically cryptic when talking about Paul’s chances against the former Olympic gold medalist.<\/p>\n
They say be careful what you wish for. That\u2019s all I need to say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the most controversial match-ups in modern boxing is officially happening, and now the rules have been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,46171,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-145768","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-jake-paul","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}