{"id":364526,"date":"2025-12-22T23:36:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T23:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/364526\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T23:36:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T23:36:07","slug":"jake-paul-pursuing-legal-action-against-critics-claiming-anthony-joshua-fight-was-rigged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/364526\/","title":{"rendered":"Jake Paul pursuing legal action against critics claiming Anthony Joshua fight was rigged"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jake Paul put his money where his mouth was in his latest boxing match. Tasked with facing one of the world’s best heavyweight boxers, Paul (12-2) suffered a sixth-round knockout loss to Anthony Joshua<\/a> in Miami this past Friday on Netflix.<\/p>\n

Despite the brutal nature of Paul’s loss, which caused him to suffer a broken jaw<\/a>, the usual speculation that follows Paul’s fights has continued to run rampant online. Due to Joshua’s status as the far superior boxer in skill and experience, plenty of critics and doubters have proclaimed the match to be a fix, reasoning that Joshua should have won earlier and more easily.<\/p>\n

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Fixed fight allegations, regardless of how baseless or farcical they may be, have been a consistent theme throughout Paul’s boxing career since 2020. Speaking Monday on Uncrowned’s “The Ariel Helwani Show,”<\/a> MVP co-founder Nakisa Bidarian stated unequivocally once again that no shenanigans surrounded the match and revealed that legal action is again being pursued against those who claim otherwise.<\/p>\n

“Our lawyers are actively going after a number of people,” Bidarian told Uncrowned, three days after the Joshua bout. “One who claims to be a lawyer himself online. I don’t remember the name or the handle, but it was something that had like 200,000 likes. Basically, this post said there was an agreement for ‘AJ’ not to knock out Jake, but ‘AJ’ disregarded the agreement and decided to mitigate his payday but knock out Jake Paul. So it’s pretty astonishing what people say.”<\/p>\n

Though Bidarian didn’t call out specific names, he did mention fellow boxing promoter Lou DiBella. After the match, DiBella took to social media and expressed his doubts over the Joshua fight in a series of posts. One in particular that caught Bidarian’s eye was DiBella’s carelessness about whether he would be sued for alleging the match was a fix. In the post, DiBella signed off, stating, “This isn’t good for boxing.”<\/p>\n

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Bidarian didn’t clarify if he is pursuing legal action against DiBella.<\/p>\n

“Lou DiBella, I saw him put up a bunch of ridiculous things, and even said, ‘Nakisa, go ahead and sue me, but this wasn’t a real fight. [Joshua] was pulling punches, he wasn’t giving it his full effort,'” Bidarian said.<\/p>\n

Paul, 28, took a massive leap in competition levels from his last match to face Joshua. Not only in skill but also in size, as Paul’s last match came against a 39-year-old Julio C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez Jr., whom Paul defeated via unanimous decision<\/a>.<\/p>\n

One of the most common claims from critics since Friday’s bout has been that Joshua intentionally waited until the sixth round to finish Paul, therefore theoretically making Paul look better in defeat.<\/p>\n

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Bidarian still can’t wrap his head around it, especially when his fighter suffered the injury he did.<\/p>\n

“There’s never once in Jake Paul’s career been any talk of that sort of [thing], anything to do with the fight being anything but a real fight. That’s exactly the same situation as any real fight. That’s exactly the same thing here for the Anthony Joshua fight,” Bidarian said.<\/p>\n

“It’s just beyond mind-blowing that people would think that. Anthony Joshua was on record saying that if he didn’t finish him in the first round, that would be disappointing, that would be a failure. The narrative changed as we got closer to fight night and, obviously, post-fight, and I understand why. But they were pretty adamant it would take, max, two rounds to knock out Jake Paul.”<\/p>\n

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Friday’s loss marks only the second blemish of Paul’s boxing career and his first via stoppage.<\/p>\n

Joshua, meanwhile, rebounded from a rough loss of his own to Daniel Dubois in September 2024 and seemingly gained new star power stateside from his appearance on Netflix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jake Paul put his money where his mouth was in his latest boxing match. Tasked with facing one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[20159,179413,52362,179412,179411,99],"class_list":["post-364526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-anthony-joshua","tag-bidarian","tag-jake-paul","tag-lou-dibella","tag-nakisa-bidarian","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}