{"id":275904,"date":"2025-11-21T18:59:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T18:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/275904\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T18:59:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T18:59:17","slug":"jake-paul-vs-anthony-joshua-press-conference-live-follow-live-text-updates-from-joshuas-media-event-with-paul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/275904\/","title":{"rendered":"Jake Paul vs Anthony Joshua press conference LIVE: Follow live text updates from Joshua&#8217;s media event with Paul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What are the weight rules for Paul v Joshua?published at 18:50 GMT<\/p>\n<p>18:50 GMT<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Anthony Joshua and Jake Paul are shirtless and standing on scales\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/640\/cpsprodpb\/vivo\/live\/images\/2025\/11\/21\/c693570e-388b-48e3-a0db-48b2d8c63a25.png.webp\"  width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jake Paul weighed a career-heavy 227lb (16st and 3lb) when he fought Mike Tyson in November 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The American clearly had concerns about giving up so much weight to Anthony Joshua, but Eddie Hearn, speaking on the 5 Live Boxing podcast, says he misled Paul&#8217;s team to ensure the two-time heavyweight champion didn&#8217;t have to cut too much.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I spoke to AJ and he was sitting at 265lb or something like that,&#8221; Hearn said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think I told [Paul&#8217;s promoter] Nakisa Bidarian he was 290lb or something like that. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Originally Nakisa said 240lb, which is very tight for AJ at this stage and we agreed at 245lb and that was really the only stipulation.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What are the weight rules for Paul v Joshua?published at 18:50 GMT 18:50 GMT Image source, Getty Images&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-275904","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}