{"id":286234,"date":"2025-11-27T14:06:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T14:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/286234\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T14:06:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T14:06:07","slug":"terence-crawford-agreed-to-face-jake-paul-but-one-demand-saw-anthony-joshua-get-the-fight-instead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/286234\/","title":{"rendered":"Terence Crawford agreed to face Jake Paul but one demand saw Anthony Joshua get the fight instead"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jake Paul<\/a> has confirmed that Terence Crawford<\/a> had agreed to fight him, only for Anthony Joshua<\/a> to later emerge as his opponent for December 19.<\/p>\n

The YouTuber-turned-boxer was left searching for a dance partner after discovering that Gervonta Davis<\/a>, who he was supposed to face in an exhibition match on November 14, would no longer be a viable option.<\/p>\n

This is because the WBA world lightweight champion now faces a civil lawsuit, filed by his ex-girlfriend Courtney Rossel, which includes domestic allegations of battery and kidnapping.<\/p>\n

Since then, Paul, along with MVP Promotions co-founder Nakisa Bidarian, has revealed several names that were in the mix to face him next month.<\/p>\n

One of which happens to be super-middleweight king Crawford, who produced a career-defining performance to outpoint and dethrone Canelo Alvarez in September.<\/a><\/p>\n

According to Paul, Crawford had said yes to the potential clash before two-time world heavyweight champion Joshua was confirmed as his next opponent.<\/a><\/p>\n

At the launch press conference<\/a> for his showdown with Joshua, Paul claimed that Crawford had indeed accepted the fight, but wanted it to be pushed back to next year.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe just started talking to a bunch of different camps [after the Davis debacle]. Tommy Fury was scared, [as] per usual. [He] wanted more time. Ryan Garcia was scared.<\/p>\n

Terence Crawford said yes, but wanted to do it later next year. I was like, \u2018Let\u2019s get a fight in right now.\u2019 Anthony Joshua said yes \u2013 he was ready [for] December.\u201d<\/p>\n

Joshua and Paul will now square off in an eight-round professional contest at the Kaseya Center, Miami, with Joshua being instructed to keep below a weight limit of 245lbs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jake Paul has confirmed that Terence Crawford had agreed to fight him, only for Anthony Joshua to later…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-286234","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\/286234","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=286234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}