In what may be boxing’s most controversial fight since 28-year-old YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul fought and defeated 58-year-old Mike Tyson in November last year, Paul will enter the ring again on Friday night at 20,000 seat Kaseya Center in Miami.
This time, Paul will be facing an actual, active former heavyweight champion in 36-year-old British knockout artist Anthony Joshua.
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Paul vs. Joshua Looks Like Mismatch
The difference in size and experience, not to mention talent, between Paul and Joshua appears to be so great that boxing writers Sarah Shephard and Chris McKenna of The Athletic said that the seeming mismatch “borders on comical.”
If, or perhaps when, Joshua connects, Paul may not find the proceedings especially funny at all. And that is exactly what Amir Khan, Joshua’s fellow British former champion, albeit in the junior welterweight division, has predicted.
“This fight could be the fight that stops influencer boxing because if [Joshua] hits him with that same right hand that he caught Francis Ngannou with, I don’t think any YouTuber will want to fight again,” Khan said, as quoted by ESPN.com Wednesday.
Joshua has knocked out 25 of the 32 opponents he has faced in his 12-year-pro career, with only four losses on his record. A two-time unified heavyweight champion, twice holding the WBO, IBF, and WBA belts, Joshua also won a gold medal as a super-heavyweight at the 2012 London Olympics.
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