{"id":323624,"date":"2025-12-18T23:13:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T23:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/323624\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T23:13:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T23:13:18","slug":"jake-paul-vs-anthony-joshua-weigh-in-results-revealed-how-big-is-gap-between-boxers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/323624\/","title":{"rendered":"Jake Paul vs. Anthony Joshua Weigh-In Results Revealed, How Big Is Gap Between Boxers?"},"content":{"rendered":"

After agreeing to fight at heavyweight for just the second time in his professional career, Jake Paul is at a significant weight disadvantage heading into Friday’s bout with Anthony Joshua. <\/p>\n

Paul tipped the scales at 216.6 pounds during the official weigh-in on Thursday, 26.8 pounds lighter than Joshua. He is also five inches smaller with a reach six inches shorter than the former unified heavyweight champion. <\/p>\n

The Paul-Joshua bout came together late after Jake’s previously scheduled match on Nov. 14 with Gervonta Davis was\u00a0canceled<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Two weeks after the Davis bout was scrapped, Netflix\u00a0officially announced<\/a>\u00a0that Paul and Joshua would square off at Kaseya Center in Miami on Dec. 19. The two agreed to fight at heavyweight.<\/p>\n

Paul has primarily fought as a cruiserweight (up to 200 pounds) throughout his career, but his memorable matchup with Mike Tyson in November 2024 was fought at heavyweight.<\/p>\n

While that was a heavyweight bout, the gap between the two fighters wasn’t nearly as pronounced as it is this time. Paul was significantly heavier (227.2 pounds<\/a>) going into the Tyson fight than he is this time.<\/p>\n

Joshua is entering the bout\u00a0nine pounds lighter<\/a>\u00a0than he did in his last fight against Daniel Dubois in September 2024. AJ lost that match via fifth-round knockout, snapping his four-fight winning streak.<\/p>\n

The 36-year-old Joshua is 6-4 in his last 10 bouts after starting his professional career with 22 consecutive wins.<\/p>\n

Paul is 12-1 as a professional boxer, with his lone defeat coming via split decision against Tommy Fury in February 2023.<\/p>\n

Netflix will stream the Paul-Joshua event on Friday starting at 8 p.m. ET. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After agreeing to fight at heavyweight for just the second time in his professional career, Jake Paul is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-323624","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\/323624","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=323624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}