{"id":305206,"date":"2025-12-08T15:13:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T15:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/305206\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T15:13:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T15:13:07","slug":"usyk-gives-honest-answer-when-asked-if-jake-paul-has-any-chance-of-beating-anthony-joshua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/305206\/","title":{"rendered":"Usyk gives honest answer when asked if Jake Paul has any chance of beating Anthony Joshua"},"content":{"rendered":"

Next week, Jake Paul<\/a> goes toe-to-toe with Anthony Joshua<\/a> in an ambitious attempt to announce himself as a threat to the heavyweight throne. Now, reigning unified champion of the division, Oleksandr Usyk<\/a>, has revealed his thoughts ahead of the event.<\/p>\n

Paul has fought at heavyweight only once, outpointing a 58-year-old Mike Tyson<\/a>, who had undergone almost two decades of professional inactivity prior, in a clash that was fought over eight two-minute rounds with both men wearing 14-ounce gloves.<\/p>\n

Now, Paul has accepted a more genuine and threatening heavyweight affair, as he takes on two-time champion Joshua, who challenged for the heavyweight title only last year. The upcoming fight is a genuine professional contest with standard rules and regulations barring a weight limit of 245lbs for Joshua<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As a result, \u2018The Problem Child\u2019 is poised to enter the ring as a monumental underdog, with an upset victory for the American comparable to the legendary triumph of Buster Douglas, who famously dethroned Tyson in 1990.<\/p>\n

Speaking with All The Smoke Fight<\/a>, Usyk was asked if there was any chance of Paul beating Joshua, to which the Ukrainian responded with disbelief.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat?! [Ask me that] again please!\u201d<\/p>\n

Whilst Usyk seems uninterested in a boxing match with Paul at present, the Ukrainian has recently revealed his willingness to take on the YouTuber-turned-boxer in an MMA fight, if he survives against \u2018AJ\u2019.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cIf Anthony Joshua wants, he can kill this guy. I will pray [for] Jake Paul because I want to fight Jake Paul in the Octagon.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Next week, Jake Paul goes toe-to-toe with Anthony Joshua in an ambitious attempt to announce himself as a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-305206","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\/305206","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=305206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}