{"id":323681,"date":"2025-12-18T23:58:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T23:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/323681\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T23:58:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T23:58:07","slug":"jake-paul-vs-anthony-joshua-briton-weighs-almost-two-stone-heavier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/323681\/","title":{"rendered":"Jake Paul vs Anthony Joshua: Briton weighs almost two stone heavier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Anthony Joshua weighed in almost two stone heavier than Jake Paul for Friday&#8217;s controversial heavyweight bout as part of an unusual stipulation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Heavyweights do not usually have to make weight, but Joshua was required to come in under 17st 7lb (111kg), reflecting the gulf in experience between the fighters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He tipped the scales at 17st 5lb (110kg), with Paul weighing 15st 7lb (98kg).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The pair will contest a professional eight-round bout, using regulation 10oz gloves, at Miami&#8217;s Kaseya Center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A low-key official weigh-in, open only to the media, took place on Thursday morning in a conference room at the Fontainebleau Hotel. A ceremonial weigh-in is scheduled for Thursday evening at the Fillmore Miami Beach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Paul stepped on the scales calmly before breaking into a brief, animated and somewhat confusing tirade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Do you know who I am? I am him,&#8221; he shouted, eyes wide, as he gestured towards the assembled media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was Paul&#8217;s heaviest recorded weight, 3lb more than for his fight against Mike Tyson last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anthony Joshua weighed in almost two stone heavier than Jake Paul for Friday&#8217;s controversial heavyweight bout as part&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-323681","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\/323681","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=323681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}