{"id":276581,"date":"2025-11-22T03:25:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T03:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/276581\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T03:25:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T03:25:10","slug":"jake-paul-vs-anthony-joshua-briton-says-youtuber-is-serious-fighter-but-he-wants-to-stomp-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/276581\/","title":{"rendered":"Jake Paul vs Anthony Joshua: Briton says YouTuber is &#8216;serious fighter&#8217; but he wants to &#8216;stomp&#8217; him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Briton Anthony Joshua said he will &#8220;stomp all over&#8221; Jake Paul and &#8220;break&#8221; the American as the pair came face-to-face to promote next month&#8217;s heavyweight fight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former two-time unified heavyweight champion Joshua meets YouTuber-turned-boxer Paul &#8211; in what is, on paper, a mammoth mismatch &#8211; at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cwyprrlww9do\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Miami&#8217;s Kaseya Center<\/a> on 19 December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m going to break his face and break his body up. I&#8217;m here to prove I&#8217;m the better fighter,&#8221; Joshua, 35, said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ll stomp all over him. That&#8217;s a fighter&#8217;s mentality.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m going to really want to hurt him. That&#8217;s what I want to do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Despite those words, a relaxed Joshua and social media star Paul &#8211; usually known for his theatrics &#8211; exchanged pleasantries and kept it respectful with each other. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Paul instead targeted Joshua&#8217;s former opponent Francis Ngannou and called him &#8220;a joke&#8221; after the Cameroonian declined a fight offer. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He claimed the December bout had also been offered to Tommy Fury and Ryan Garcia but they were &#8220;scared&#8221;, while pound-for-pound star Terence Crawford had agreed to fight him next year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Joshua, meanwhile, took aim at British rival Tyson Fury &#8211; Tommy&#8217;s brother &#8211; and refused a \u00a31m bet &#8216;The Gypsy King&#8217; says he will place on a Paul win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;[Paul] is better than Tyson Fury &#8211; he&#8217;s actually sitting here. I give him credit for that,&#8221; Joshua said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m just here to fight. I&#8217;ll get the job done, collect my cheque and that&#8217;s it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Briton Anthony Joshua said he will &#8220;stomp all over&#8221; Jake Paul and &#8220;break&#8221; the American as the pair&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-276581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276581","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=276581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}