Briton Anthony Joshua said he will “stamp all over” Jake Paul and “break” the American as the pair came face-to-face to promote next month’s heavyweight fight.<\/p>\n
Former two-time unified heavyweight champion Joshua meets YouTuber-turned-boxer Paul – in what is, on paper, a mammoth mismatch – at Miami’s Kaseya Center on 19 December.<\/p>\n
“I’m going to break his face and break his body up. I’m here to prove I’m the better fighter,” Joshua, 35, said.<\/p>\n
“I’ll stamp all over him. That’s a fighter’s mentality.<\/p>\n
“I’m going to really want to hurt him. That’s what I want to do.”<\/p>\n
Despite those words, a relaxed Joshua and social media star Paul – usually known for his theatrics – exchanged pleasantries and kept it respectful with each other. <\/p>\n
Paul instead targeted former Joshua opponent Francis Ngannou and called him “a joke” after the Cameroonian declined a fight offer. <\/p>\n
Joshua, meanwhile, took aim at British rival Tyson Fury – and refused a \u00a31m bet ‘The Gypsy King’ says he will place on a Paul win.<\/p>\n
“[Paul] is better than Tyson Fury – he’s actually sitting here. I give him credit for that,” Joshua said.<\/p>\n
“I’m just here to fight. I’ll get the job done, collect my cheque and that’s it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Briton Anthony Joshua said he will “stamp all over” Jake Paul and “break” the American as the pair…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-152489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152489","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=152489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}