ANTHONY JOSHUA VS. JAKE PAUL VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS, FULL CARD RESULTS, POST PRESSER, ROBERT BRIZEL REACTION & SOCIAL MEDIA REACTION
Miami, Florida (December 20th, 2025)– Anthony Joshua reminded the boxing world why pedigree still matters. The former two-time heavyweight champion defeated Jake Paul on Friday night under the bright lights of Miami’s Kaseya Center and in front of a massive global audience, live on Netflix.
The 36-year-old Joshua — hailing from Watford, UK and standing at a towering 6-foot-6 — dominated the 28-year-old Paul in the highly-anticipated professional heavyweight bout. Joshua ultimately earned the sixth round knockout after sending Paul to the mat multiple times throughout the fight.
“It wasn’t the best performance,” Joshua said at the end of the bout. “The end goal was to get Jake Paul, pin him down, and hurt him. That was the request leading up, and that’s what was on my mind. It took a bit longer than expected, but the right hand found its destination.”
Paul — typically a cruiserweight — held his own for the most part against the taller and heavier Joshua, but diagnosed himself with a broken jaw after the fight.
Joshua improves to 29-4 (25 KOs), returning to his winning ways after falling by knockout at the hands of British rival Daniel Dubois at Wembley Stadium in Sept. 2024, while Paul falls to 12-2 (7 KOs).
Just a month ago, the former Olympic gold medalist for Britain stepped in to face Paul after his matchup against Gervonta “Tank” Davis was canceled. Paul is now the latest Joshua foe to fall, following a long list of top contenders and champions such as Kubrat Pulev, Andy Ruiz Jr., Alexander Povetkin and Wladimir Klitschko, among others.
Paul — boxing’s biggest disruptor who joined the professional ranks just five years ago — previously defeated Julio César Chávez Jr., Mike Tyson, Nate Diaz, Anderson Silva and Tyron Woodley.
On the preliminary card, Cherneka Johnson, Caroline Dubois, Yokasta Valle, Avious Griffin, and Keno Marley all picked up victories. See more information about the Jake vs. Joshua prelims here.
Didn’t catch it live? You can still stream the full Jake vs. Joshua fight — along with the entire card — right now on Netflix.
Jake Paul vs. Anthony Joshua full card results:
Anthony Joshua def. Jake Paul via KO (1:31 into round six)
Alycia Baumgardner (c) def. Leila Beaudoin via unanimous decision for the IBF, WBA, WBO, and The Ring super featherweight titles (117-110, 117-110, 118-109)
Anderson Silva def. Tyron Woodley via TKO (1:33 into round two)
Jahmal Harvey def. Kevin Cervantes via unanimous decision (60-53, 60-53, 60-53)
Cherneka Johnson (c) def. Amanda Galle via unanimous decision for the IBF, WBA, WBC, WBO, and Ring bantamweight titles (99-91, 98-92, 97-93)
Caroline Dubois (c) def. Camilla Panatta via unanimous decision for the WBC lightweight title (99-90, 99-90, 99-90)
Yokasta Valle (c) def. Yadira Bustillos via majority decision for the WBC strawweight title (95-95, 98-92, 96-94)
Avious Griffin def. Justin Cardona via KO (2:59 into round one)
Keno Marley def. Diarra Davis Jr. via unanimous decision (40-35, 40-35, 40-35)
Big Anthony Joshua Stalked Forward Tall, Smaller Jake Paul Took The Fall
Editorial By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent
When Jake Paul announced he was going to fight Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis, Jake Paul was bigger, and lightweight ‘Tank’ Davis was smaller. When Davis got arrested and Jake decided to fight former world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua, one big question emerged for his Most Valuable Promotions promotional group, and Jake Paul himself, and observers.
Was social media icon and fighting fight fan Jake Paul a legitimate heavyweight, or not?
In November of 2024, at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, Paul fought Iron Mike Tyson at 227 pounds to Tyson’s 228 pounds in an eighty rounder, two minute rounds, using 14 ounce gloves. Tyson, then age 58, the former world heavyweight champion, had been out of the ring over 19 rings, and got stopped by journeymen Danny Williams and Kevin McBride in 2003 and 2004 in other unsuccessful comeback attempts, his skills memories back then.
On December 19, 2025, in the Kasaya Center in Miami, Florida, in the main event, against Joshua, 29-4 with 26 knockouts, Golders Green. London, United Kingdom, Paul, now 12-2 with seven knockouts, Dorado, Puerto Rico, gave away five inches of height, six inches of reach, and 25 pounds of weight. Inside the ring, it looked like a lion stalking hyena. Paul stuck his tongue out in disrespect, much like Sugar Ray Leonard did against the late Hector Macho Camacho. Yet, Paul, moving round the ring in circles in the early rounds with his hands down, could not produce any significant offense, nor punches at all. This produced a feeling out process in a relatively small ring with limited possibilities of an escape route. Joshua’s hands up offense was crisp, while Paul’s hands down Floyd Mayweather like stance with bicycle patterns of movement showed neither offense nor defense. Jake Paul is no Floyd either, and the current heavyweight division is no place for a social media icon to make a social call.
Sell tickets? Jake Paul, most definitely. Emerge with his sense intact against a legitimate top ten heavyweight today? Most definitely not. Jake Paul holds a one and one record at cruiserweight against 11-0 Tommy Fury of the United Kingdom (brother of Tyson Fury) and a bloated washed up middleweight Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (the son of Julio Cesar Chavez Sr., deported in August 2025 to Mexico for ICE immigration violations for overstaying his visa and lying on his green card application, and alleged ties to the Sinaloa drug cartel, and subsequently released).
The point being here, and one which this reporter called out loudly before the overhyped and hastily assembled heavyweight bout, Jake Paul is not a true heavyweight, not a true cruiserweight. Jake Paul is an aficionado light heavyweight boxer and not more, however you define it. Jake Paul versus Anthony Joshua was a blatant mismatch, yet the sports hungry public was blindly anxious for the macabre ring feast, which could only end lopsided.
In the second round, Jake Paul landed just one of six punches, while Anthony Joshua landed four punches out of 26. Those CompuBox statistics told a frightening story of what had to follow. A roadrunner rabbit being hotly pursued by a patient, stalking hungry fox in the dead of Miami winter, with no hole to hide in sight.
The game plan of grapple, hold and clinch had a methodology, yet the brunt of the frustration had to be felt by Paul, who had no offense to support himself. Joshua began digging uppercuts to the body during Paul’s frequent clinches, nullifying the holding concept. Holding his right hand up a little bit, but moving side to side with his left hand down throughout the bout. The early flagrant and wanton offering of himself as a target by Jake Paul contradicted his prediction of a knockout between rounds four and six.
Late in round three, Anthony Joshua missed with a right hand, Paul missed with a right uppercut, and then Joshua’s knee wound up in Paul’s stomach or groin area as he pushed himself and Jake Paul to the canvas, in perhaps the most bizarre moment of the bout. Jake Paul got up, only to get pushed to the canvas by Joshua or stumble to the canvas again, with both fighters warned by referee Chris Young to fight cleanly and not fight like crap.
Jake Paul was warned by his trainer Theo Chambers between rounds four and five Joshua was too strong for him, yet was nothing unless Paul was “giving it to him” (giving Joshua a free target). Paul, in between rounds four and five, already appeared to be a tiring, confused, exhausted rabbit whose lack of true ability had been exposed, outweighed and outgunned by a ferocious yet meticulous Jolly Green Giant.
As round five began, Paul’s approach to wrestle and grapple with Joshua fell short. It was like James Jeffries trying to wrestle with ‘The Galveston Giant’ Jack Johnson. The size disparity could not succeed once the questionable defense got picked apart. Joshua’s body work crumbled Joshua to the canvas again, not ruled a knockdown, but the Jake Paul Shell was being chipped away at.
Breathing heavily now, Paul began to stagger slightly after more Joshua body work, then crumbled to the canvas again and took a knee and an eight count. Paul got up, took a right hand to the chin, then went down to the canvas on his knees again for another eight count, with Joshua pushing him down as well, similar to Lennox Lewis pushing down Mike Tyson in their bout. Exhaustion and fatigue set in, with Paul unable to move and circle as before, staggered again, but with his tongue out again in disrespect. As round five ended, the question was not if, but when.
Early in the six round, an overhand Anthony Joshua right hand sent Paul to the canvas for another eight count, hanging on to Joshua’s legs for dear life as Lou Bizzarro did in the fourteenth round of his title bout with Roberto Duran in 1976. The mismatch defined, Paul got up and continued taking right hands to the head. Still sticking his tongue out, his movement and legs gone though, with the ring cut off, Paul was again knocked down to the canvas in a corner to his knees, where he took the full ten count in exhaustion and defeat.
Against a legitimate world class heavyweight, Paul was a goner from the opening bell, not even a legitimate six round heavyweight as the old Hank Kaplan Boxing Digest would have rated fighters by demonstrated ability. Jake Paul was game, well-trained, and in the house. Calling out Anthony Joshua as a late substitute opponent was not a class move. Sell tickets? Yes. Of public interest? Sure. A serious heavyweight bout for Jake Paul? No, because Jake Paul is not a true heavyweight. Jake Paul might do better in the light heavyweight division. Should Jake Paul fight the likes of Canelo Alvarez, Artur Beterbiev, Dmitry Bivol or David Benavidez in the lower weight classes? Even at the lower weight, the answer is only if Paul wants a similar outcome. That outcome is predictable by the world class fighters whose names were just mentioned.
Jake Paul is no Muhammad Ali. If you make predictions before the bout, and taunt opponents inside the ring, you better have the ability to back it up. When Muhammad Ali said “Old Archie Moore will fall to the floor in four!” he meant it. For those bookie junkies who actually bet on Jake Paul over Anthony Joshua, the correct response is a fool and his money are soon parted.
To cite a parallel, in March 1963, the former World Light Heavyweight champion Archie Moore, ‘The Old Mongoose’, ended his career in Phoenix with a third round stoppage of pro wrestler Mike DiBaise, who had called him out in a previous bout Moore had refereed. Moore needed only 200 seconds to technically cut big mouth DiBaise to pieces and shut him out.
Jake Paul is a terrific social media salesman. Jake Paul versus Anthony Joshua was good clean entertainment, both fighters are clean, that is a today a role model good thing for pro boxing and professional sports, and the bout should be viewed in that context. Merry Christmas 2025 and Happy New Year 2026 to all fight fans and sports fans, and to all a good night.
A high-profile five million dollars high stakes go for broke bet was reportedly placed on Jake Paul to defeat Anthony Joshua in their December 19, 2025, boxing match by Hollywood film producer Jon Peters, known for films such as A Star Is Born and Batman, convinced by a conversation with Jake Paul to make the significant wager, took a crazy chance on the improbable outcome. Given Paul was the heavy underdog in the fight (around +650 odds), the bet had a potential payout of over 30 million dollars if Paul won.
This reporter felt from the start Paul did not have a bats chance in hell of beating Joshua, though I did not feel Joshua would underestimate Paul and fight recklessly, and he didn’t. My advice to bettors in contests of social media boxers versus legitimate boxers in bouts like this? Bouts like this are a betting booby trap. Big Anthony Joshua stood tall, and the smaller Jake Paul took the fall. In fact, many falls. And all the King’s horses and all the king’s men, couldn’t put Humpty Dumpty back together again. Don’t bet.
The four female world title bouts on the Kasaya Center undercard were much better bouts to watch, particularly the World Boxing Council Female World Minimumweight title bout between Yokasta Valle and Yadira Busillos which was phenomenal. Amen.
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