Robert Brizel Editorial: Considering Merits of Jake Paul versus Anthony Joshua. Is A.J. Next?
Editorial By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent
London, UK (July 25th, 2025)– Former World Heavyweight champion Tyson ‘Gypsy King’ Fury, in a new interview with Ring Magazine, feels Jake Paul would knock out Anthony Joshua if they face each other. Fury, who likes Jake Paul, thinks Paul is now a legitimate heavyweight contender on the rise.
After undisputed World heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk’s victory over Daniel Dubois in the rematch, Jake Paul entered the ring and engaged Usyk in a bizarre and confusing faceoff. This reporter calls that faceoff bizarre and confusing, because Paul is not your typical standard contender opponent. Paul is a social media icon and a king of self-promotion. A mega bout between Jake Paul and Anthony Joshua or even does not spell doom for Paul, who can sufficiently hold his own to go the distance to a 12 round decision which could go either way on the scorecards.
The bottom line is Jake Paul brings the mega money dough to the table. For the right money, this reporter believes even everybody from Oscar De La Hoya to Floyd Mayweather to Evander Holyfield would fight Jake Paul. At this point, given the high stakes payday of a bout with Jake Paul, fighters active and inactive will line up for a piece of the action and the payday. At the moment, Anthony Joshua’s name is on the fire, and given the way Daniel Dubois knocked A.J. out, Jake Paul would be a neutral opponent for a comeback match.
Who could blame them. Not that Jake Paul or A.J. Joshua need the money. They do not. Any major heavyweight can make chopped liver out of Jake Paul. It is just that Jake Paul brings the money to the table most fighters never see in a lifetime, and the money does talk. No odds yet exist for a Jake Paul versus Anthony Joshua to be hyped on social media mega bout. Like Muhammad Ali, Paul will sell the bout through social media outlets and his mouth for tens of millions, probably much more than that. Paul is what he is in terms of the evaluation of his degree of boxing talent. Paul is a good salesman on social media outlets. The rest of the heavyweight division is a who’s who of names nobody past, present and future, will ever know or even remember. Jake Paul is a name, and names sell.
Jake Paul against Anthony Joshua at the moment has matchmaking merit, even if any of the other big heavyweight names versus Jake Paul makes no sense. Jake Paul has turned celebrity boxing into a public relations circus and social media frenzy. Depending upon how ridiculous the money is to fight Jake Paul, somebody will fight him who is a major heavyweight force because the money is right. Right now, that somebody is Anthony Joshua. Tyson Fury favors Jake Paul, while this reporter favors Anthony Joshua in a 12 rounder.
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