Sooooo…
Are we Team Paul or Team Joshua?
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Fight is rigged unless AJ knocks him out in the first round.
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I mean he should basically knock him out with the first punch. Boxing seems to be on the level of wrestling these days. All theatre and no sport. I’ll not be watching.
Apparently, Joshua has been pulled up about comments that he would kill him. I hope it’s not something that will haunt him.
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Paul seems to be more serious or able than a bunch of other let’s call them entertainers in boxing, you gotta give him some credit for the way he has performed and won a few of those.
Money is a big aspect of this fight and I think it actually works both ways, not only from Joshua’s point of view. Who knows how the postponement of the Davis fight affected Paul’s plans.
One surely thinks what the hell is Joshua doing with this weird move ahead of what might be his last one or two fights, but it’s probably to maximize money and by joining Usyk’s team, try to beat Fury in 2026. If he does that, I think he’ll retire straight away.
Whoever wins out of Fury v Joshua, might have a final, third crack at Usyk. Perhaps more if it’s Fury. If that’s what the champ even wants, because he has almost nothing to prove on this current scene with his last 6 wins. And it’s questionable whether someone very young like Itauma presents the right combination of motivation and money for him.
Money has always dictated what match ups get made in boxing far more than the sporting/competitive aspect, but its just never been driven before by an internet celebrity who isn’t actually a boxer.
The reflex is to bemoan the state of boxing, but this is the world now…see fuck nuggets like that gooning moron Speed showing up and getting press at major FIFA events.
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Got to feel for Jake Paul a bit, he’s a complete fuckwit and unlike his brother has absolutely no looks about him.
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Into Round 3…
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Shamelessly stupid nonsense
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Joshua has embarrassed himself there
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Tbh I expect there to have been a round clause as there was when he fought Mayweather.
Once the fight had gone on long enough and Paul didn’t have the energy to keep running away it was over, and in a friendlier manner than if AJ viewed him as an actual boxer. If Paul actually posed some kind of threat to AJ I think he’d have been floored in a far more convincing manner as he definitely doesn’t have the skill to compete with a genuine (former) heavyweight champ and there is no way AJ could’ve come back from the embarrassment of losing to a shit cruiserweight.
Still, no sympathy for Paul and his busted jaw as he’s an idiot and cunt. Won’t post the picture of the state of his mouth but half his teeth are now concave, even pulling his punches AJ did fuck him up a bit. Though there is no denying he treated it as a run out friendly rather than a genuine fight.
Hopefully this sees the long awaited AJ Vs Fury fight finally happen, though both of them have seen their stock lowered massively in the years they’ve avoided each other it could still be a top quality fight between the two genuinely world class heavyweights that Britain has produced post 2000. The atmosphere in the stadium would be incredible - providing they don’t hold it in the US/Saudi.
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Shouldn’t be sanctioning fights with nonsense clauses like that, makes a mockery of the sport.
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I think having a YouTuber fight a professional boxer still in his mid to late career makes a mockery of the sport.
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Fixed
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It’s definitely Joshua’s final chapter, Hearn said post-Dubois that it’s anything between 1 and 3 fights left for him.
So I think his missions are to maximize the money he can earn as a fighter in these last fights, try to beat Fury and perhaps one final go at the belts. In a way, I think he has surrendered that final idea to Usyk (something I think Fury hasn’t), but his big goal now is to try and win that “UK battle”.
I think boxing as it is has it’s well known problems.
I see Paul somewhat different to some other guys from that field outside of boxing. He’s at a level where he could actually continue competing.
Fair play to him and then it’s simply up to people whether they watch it or not. People can freely ignore it if they don’t like it.
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The recent retirement with a whimper of Crawford having had a depressing paucity of big fights that his talent and entertainment value warranted is a bigger marker for the sad state of boxing than this fight. As I said before the fight, a think the shamelessness of this fight, with the industry kowtowing to a gurning moron cosplaying as a boxer, represents something dark about society at large way bigger than issues boxing has.
Related to this is what happened to another of Paul’s kind, a jumped up little shitbag called Jack Doherty. He’s internet famous for basically being little more than a cunt in public. His schtick is to antagonize people and then when they respond step back and have his body guards step in while he gurns at them from a safe distance. Back stage he saw some random big guy and shoulder checked him as he was walking by and as soon as the guy responded all his minions jumped in. What none of these barely pubescent fucks knew though was the guy they just started something with was former UFC HW champ Andrei Arlovski. The kids suspected something was different this time once they saw it was their security who this time were the ones holding their hands up saying they didnt want trouble recognizing how bad a choice the kids had made in picking their target.
We’ve just got absolutely awful incentives for what and who has value in the attention space and in the marketplace.
By the way, I have no idea what Jake Paul (and his brother) does outside boxing or did before he became one, how he became what he is. I mean, I’ve heard it’s YouTube, but have no idea what kind of content.
So it’s funny but I got to know him more in last years through boxing.
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He’s evidently not at a level though is he, he can be serious or he can be serving this up which just makes a mockery of it. I think the sports a joke anyhow, glorified thuggery but this doesn’t help it.
It’s easy to dislike Jake Paul, and not like the fights he puts on, but he is not ruining boxing.
The sport has been run and influenced by genuinely dreadful people for decades, whether that’s Don King, Daniel Kinahan or that oddball Saudi fella.
Paul is just taking advantage of an already corrupt and shady sport. Fair play to him. Can’t blame Joshua for taking that fight either, all that money for virtually zero risk is the ideal scenario for any prizefighter.
What I dont like is the whole suggestion that Paul pays boxers to let him win. I cant really comment on but there’s plenty of smoke out there.