{"id":294739,"date":"2025-12-02T11:06:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T11:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/294739\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T11:06:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T11:06:07","slug":"oleksandr-usyk-sums-up-anthony-joshua-vs-jake-paul-fight-perfectly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/294739\/","title":{"rendered":"Oleksandr Usyk sums up Anthony Joshua vs Jake Paul fight perfectly"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oleksandr Usyk<\/a> has offered a bleak assessment of how Jake Paul<\/a> may fare against his new teammate, Anthony Joshua<\/a>, on December 19.<\/p>\n

Not only does Joshua boast the far greater experience, but the 2012 Olympic champion also brings to the table a rather significant selection of physical advantages. Because of this, many are choosing to view his clash with YouTuber-turned-boxer Paul as merely a tune-up fight, albeit a highly lucrative one that will be streamed live on Netflix.<\/p>\n

According to promoter Eddie Hearn, \u2018AJ\u2019 is largely treating this as an opportunity to dust off the cobwebs before entering what promises to be a more meaningful assignment in February.<\/p>\n

Ahead of his top level comeback next year, the 36-year-old has been training with the coaching team of heavyweight king Usyk, who handed Joshua back-to-back points defeats in 2021 and 2022.<\/a><\/p>\n

And while the Ukrainian comprehensively beat his former foe on both occasions, he now appears to be impressed by what he has seen from Joshua behind closed doors.<\/p>\n

In an interview with Boxing King Media<\/a>, Usyk compares his British teammate to a high-performance car while, at the same time, placing Paul into the bracket of a more modest vehicle.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have no idea [what will happen]. [Is this fight] dangerous for Anthony?<\/p>\n

\u201cA Rolls-Royce cannot have any kind of competition with a Fiat \u2013 it makes no sense. Anthony is a Rolls-Royce, Jake Paul is a Fiat.\u201d<\/p>\n

The pair will square off in an eight-round professional heavyweight contest at the Kaseya Center, Miami.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oleksandr Usyk has offered a bleak assessment of how Jake Paul may fare against his new teammate, Anthony…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-294739","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\/294739","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=294739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}