{"id":56885,"date":"2025-08-10T11:09:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T11:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/56885\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T11:09:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T11:09:08","slug":"jake-paul-anthony-joshua-likely-to-fight-jake-paul-next-says-eddie-hearn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/56885\/","title":{"rendered":"Jake Paul: Anthony Joshua ‘likely’ to fight Jake Paul next, says Eddie Hearn"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anthony Joshua could receive a career-high pay day to fight Jake Paul as their teams continue to hold talks over a bout in 2026.<\/p>\n

Eddie Hearn, Joshua’s promoter, says it is likely the fight could be the Briton’s next.<\/p>\n

Joshua is a two-time heavyweight world champion with 32 professional fights, while American Paul, who rose to fame on YouTube,<\/a> has 13 bouts to his name.<\/p>\n

“At first I thought it was a publicity stunt from Jake and now the more I speak to them the more I actually understand – Jake Paul thinks he can beat Anthony Joshua,” Hearn told BBC Sport.<\/p>\n

“This is a step too far. So be careful what you wish for, because this isn’t a game.<\/p>\n

“This isn’t YouTube. This isn’t Disney. This is the danger zone.”<\/p>\n

Both teams denied conditions could be part of the fight, like when Paul fought long-retired and then 58-year-old Mike Tyson last November.<\/a><\/p>\n

That contest had bigger gloves and a maximum of eight rounds, each limited to two minutes.<\/p>\n

Most Valuable Promotions CEO Nakisa Bardian, who set up MVP with 28-year-old Paul, says he is “not worried about safety at all”.<\/p>\n

“This would be pursued as a straight up professional fight,” said Bidarian.<\/p>\n

“I think there’s certainly an experience gap between the two of them in terms of where they’re at in their career.<\/p>\n

“From my prospective, Joshua’s an active heavyweight.<\/p>\n

“The likelihood of Anthony Joshua being able to land a heavyweight punch is much higher than what Mike Tyson had.<\/p>\n

“I want to give Jake as much time as possible to improve on his boxing skillset to be able to effectively neutralise that main attribute of Anthony Joshua.<\/p>\n

“My ask of him is to wait longer to do it. But when an opportunity is there, sometimes if you don’t take it, it never comes back.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anthony Joshua could receive a career-high pay day to fight Jake Paul as their teams continue to hold…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-56885","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56885","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=56885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}