Jake Paul was no match for Anthony Joshua on Saturday night in Miami. A mock combat which leaves the person concerned ashamed and damaged.
The promoters did their job well, supported by Netflix to broadcast a fight resembling curiosity between the Olympic champion and ex-world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua and a boxing influencer who made him 13 centimeters under the gauge (1.85m versus 1.98m) and 12 kilos on the scale (98 kg versus 110 kg), Jake Paul.
A grant of $184 million was thus mobilized. Delirious in view of the sad – and predictable – spectacle presented in the Miami ring on the night of Friday to Saturday. A mock fight so grotesque that even the referee lost patience at the end of the fourth round, ordering the two men to finally box: “ Fans didn’t pay to see this shit. If you want to fight, fight! »
From the fifth act, Anthony Joshua in fact accelerated the pace, sending his opponent to the mat twice. And it was finally in the sixth act that the Englishman was able to deliver the final blow. “ It wasn’t my best performancehe readily conceded, well aware of having delayed the inevitable as much as possible so that spectators would at least get their money’s worth. The goal was to put him on the ground so that he was in pain, it took longer than expected but it was done.
(…) You have to give him respect for trying, but he faced a real fighter. »
“High,” Jake Paul is thinking about a change
Anthony Joshua thus referred to Jake Paul’s victory over an almost sixty-year-old Mike Tyson a year earlier. And the ex-youtuber this weekend measured a little shamefully the world that still separates him from the leaders of the noble art. “ He hits really hard. I did my best. He kicked my ass, but that’s sport », he resigned himself to admitting, struggling to articulate.
On Saturday, the American confirmed from his hospital bed that he had “ broken jaw » after being made « smash “. Always taking great care to script its media releases, however. Jake Paul also says he is considering a move to the light heavyweight category – a caste more in line with his natural weight.
