{"id":308249,"date":"2025-12-10T04:55:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T04:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/308249\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T04:55:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T04:55:06","slug":"jake-paul-reveals-how-much-anthony-joshua-will-outweigh-him-on-fight-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/308249\/","title":{"rendered":"Jake Paul reveals how much Anthony Joshua will outweigh him on fight night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The controversial showdown between <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/jake-paul\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jake Paul<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/anthony-joshua\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anthony Joshua<\/a> is just over a week away.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/46997859\/jake-paul-fight-ex-heavyweight-champ-anthony-joshua-dec-19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Paul and Joshua will meet in an eight-round heavyweight battle<\/a> at the Kaseya Center in Miami on Friday 19 December, with the event broadcast live on Netflix.<\/p>\n<p>It came as a shock to the boxing world when the fight was announced around a month ago, with Paul having originally been set to go up against WBA lightweight champion Gervonta Davis in an exhibition bout in November.<\/p>\n<p>He has now turned his attention from taking on a 5ft 5in 135lb fighter to a 6ft 6in former world heavyweight champion in Joshua who has weighed as heavy as 255lbs in his past fights.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/anthony-joshua-jake-paul-weight\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AJ must come in under 245lbs at the weigh-in<\/a>, but there are still major concerns for Paul, who has primarily competed at cruiserweight in his career, aside from his highly-criticised clash against Mike Tyson in November 2024, where \u2018The Problem Child\u2019 weighed 227lbs.<\/p>\n<p>Paul has now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@okclipped1t\/video\/7580844955275496735?_r=1&amp;_t=ZN-920SuDXI7L4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">revealed in an online clip<\/a> what he expects the weight difference to be with Joshua on fight night, stating that he expects at least a 30lb difference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m like 215 [currently]. [I\u2019ll be] 218, 220 [on the night]. He\u2019ll be like 250 in the ring. It\u2019s definitely a pretty wild fight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Paul was last in action in June when he defeated Julio Cesar Chavez Jr, while Joshua hasn\u2019t fought since a September 2024 defeat to Daniel Dubois, but despite the long inactivity, he is still a huge favourite in next week\u2019s encounter with \u2018The Problem Child.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>                                            <script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The controversial showdown between Jake Paul and Anthony Joshua is just over a week away. Paul and Joshua&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-308249","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\/308249","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=308249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}