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“‘He’s a Monster’ – Jake Paul’s Big Admission”

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"‘He’s a Monster’ – Jake Paul’s Big Admission"

 

JAKE PAUL has revealed the one “monster” boxer he will never fight.

The YouTuber-turned-boxer sent social media into a frenzy when he called out Anthony Joshua on his podcast.

And the two later shared a phone call and teased a shock fight in 2026 on their social media channels.

Paul made the callout while joined by former super-middleweight world champion David Benavidez – nicknamed the Mexican Monster.

The Arizona-born light-heavyweight is 30-0 with 24 knockouts and renowned for his dazzling speed and punch power.

So Paul had no problem admitting to Benavidez’s face that he would not go anywhere near fighting him.

He said: “(My manager) is talking about all these potential fights, and I’m like, ‘Yes, no,’ and the only no is you.

“I will not fight this f***ing guy, he’s a fucking monster. I’m just gonna f***ing die, bro. I know my boundaries.

“But here’s the thing, I want to fight Anthony Joshua – exclusive – because I know that I will f***ing beat Anthony Joshua’s ass.

“He doesn’t have a chin and he has no skill and he’s stiff. And I love you, Anthony, we’re friends, all this s***, but I want to fight you.

“I will beat Canelo, I will beat a lot of f***ing people, I will not beat David Benavidez. I would get torn up, bro. This guy is different. He’s different.”

Benavidez, 28, most recently beat David Morrell to win the interim WBC and WBA titles.

Paul, 28, meanwhile defeated Mike Tyson, 58, in his last bout but it was marred in controversy due to the age gap between them.

After the fight – which was viewed by more than 100MILLION on Netflix – Paul’s team opened the door to a potential AJ fight.

Paul weighed a career-heaviest 227lb (16st 2lb) for his eight-round points win over Tyson.

Joshua, 35, was 252.5lb (18st) for his September KO loss to Daniel Dubois meaning there is still a TWO STONE difference with Paul.

And promoter Eddie Hearn revealed AJ is board for the fight.

Hearn said: “To be honest, I look at it and I think Jake Paul against Anthony Joshua — for me, we’d do it for the banter.

“AJ would fight Jake Paul. He’d fight anyone to be honest with you. If Jake Paul wants to step up and fight Anthony Joshua, he’ll need the relevant insurance.

“The only thing that was disappointing was he says 2026. That’s like me saying, LA Olympics for the surfing in 2028, I’ll be there.’

“Do it in 2025 if you really want to do it. You’re not going to get really much better at this stage.

“I don’t know. Those two have spoken, I spoke to AJ this morning, he went, ‘Listen, of course I’d fight him.’

“[Joshua] said, ‘Why not?’ I said, ‘What do you want me to say when I’m asked about it?’

“He said, ‘Tell everyone I’ll fight anyone, any time, it’s not a problem for me.’”

 

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Joshua vs Paul: Unthinkable Ending

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Joshua vs Paul: Unthinkable Ending

Anthony Joshua vs Jake Paul has been teased to take place in 2026 – but we’ve already seen the outcome.

Joshua is a two-time heavyweight world champion who has achieved it all in the sport, but has yet to pencil in his next fight after losing to Daniel Dubois.

After beating heavyweight icon Mike Tyson in a huge event, YouTuber-turned-boxer Paul is after more big names.

He called out Joshua to a surprising clash, which would likely be a mega commercial event.

Paul insisted he could beat the hard-hitting Briton, despite his limited experience which would make him a huge underdog.

The pair then jumped on a phone call and hashed out a surprising plan for a fight, which they teased could take place next year.

But classic video game EA Sports Fight Night has already solved the outcome if the pair were to touch gloves.

Joshua stepped in carrying a huge size advantage over Paul, who stands five inches smaller.

And it was clear from the opening bell, as expected if the pair do meet, that Joshua was in control.

He used his size from the opening round and Paul was unable to close the distance at all.

The British powerhouse continued his domination through the second round before finding his breakthrough in the third period.

With 15 seconds of the stanza remaining, in a quite realistic outcome, Joshua detonated the trademark uppercut but with his left hand.

It crushed easily through the guard and dropped Paul flat on to his back.

Luckily he was able to climb to his feet and survive, despite likely never having felt that level of power before.

Unfortunately for Paul the onslaught continued, and in the sixth round Joshua dropped him again.

It was a body shot this time, which surprisingly appeared to hit his arm, but he collapsed to the canvas again.

He showed a quite remarkable level of ability to climb off the canvas, and it is unclear if he could do so in real life.

Paul was only in there matter of seconds as Joshua unloaded a huge right hook which sent Paul out cold.

He crashed to the canvas motionless and the referee counted before seeing that the fight was stopped.

Joshua celebrated wildly, perhaps too much so given their skill gap, but it was an easy win.

That is likely how many of the boxing fraternity would expect proceedings to pan out.

The former champion will be hugely confident of beating Paul, and if this outcome doesn’t unfold, it could be the biggest upset in boxing history.

 

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From Facing Fury & Joshua to Challenging Klitschko – What’s He Thinking?

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rom Facing Fury & Joshua to Challenging Klitschko – What’s He Thinking?

Wladimir Klitschko has long teased a return to the ring and continues to refuse to rule it out.

Alongside his brother Vitali, Klitschko dominated the heavyweight division between 2004 and 2015 before suffering a loss to Tyson Fury and losing his unified belts. He returned two years later for a fire-fight with Anthony Joshua but ultimately came up short again, this time inside the distance.

Klitschko would hang up the gloves then with a record of 64 victories from 69 fights, holding the record for most wins and title defences of the unified championship.

Should he indeed decide to come back, there are plenty who would take the fight, not least MMA superstar Francis Ngannou, who has also lost to Fury and ‘AJ’ in his two boxing bouts.

When speaking to Sportsbook Review about his ring return, Ngannou named Klitschko as a potential.

“Wladimir Klitschko could be an option.”

While a bout with Ngannou represents an easier return for the Ukrainian compared to some of the current top contenders, he has made it clear that his comeback would be focused on breaking George Foreman’s record as the oldest heavyweight world champion in history. Ngannou, as box office as he is, cannot provide that.

Klitschko will instead have eyes on the winner of the Daniel Dubois vs Joseph Parker fight at the end of this month. Should Dubois keep a hold of his belt, he has already said he would be happy to welcome the former long-reigning champion back into the game.

However, another Ukrainian in Oleksandr Usyk – who would never step through the ropes with his countryman Klitschko – may halt that, as he himself is targeting the winner of Dubois-Parker for a chance to become two-time undisputed in the division.

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Anthony Joshua Weighs In—Who Wins Between Dubois and Parker?

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Anthony Joshua Weighs In—Who Wins Between Dubois and Parker?

Anthony Joshua has delivered his verdict on what he thinks the outcome of Daniel Dubois vs Joseph Parker will be later this month. Joshua, a two-time heavyweight champion, has shared the ring with both men who are due to meet in a title bout on the 22nd of February.

AJ beat Parker in 2018, delivering the New Zealander the first loss of his professional career, losing his WBO title in the process. Dubois and Joshua then squared off last September, with Dynamite knocking AJ down four times before he eventually knocked him out for good in the fifth round.

However, it’s not Dubois that Joshua is tipping for victory.

Anthony Joshua Backs Joseph Parker

The Brit has claimed Parker will beat his countryman later this month

In a post on Turki Alalshikh’s X account, Joshua backed Parker to prevail later this month, as the 33-year-old bids to become a two-time world heavyweight champion.

Parker has seen a resurgence under new trainer Andy Lee in the past 18 months with wins over Simon Kean, Deontay Wilder, and Zhilei Zhang. Much like Parker, however, Dubois himself has been on a great run of late. Dynamite has won all three of his fights since a controversial loss to Oleksandr Usyk in August 2023, with wins against Joshua, Filip Hrgovic, and Jarrell Miller.

As well as Joshua, former world heavyweight champion Tyson Fury also believes Parker will stand victorious against Dubois, but that should come as no surprise given that they are close friends.

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Can He Meet the Demand? Fury Given a Clear Warning To Who He Want To Fight Next

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Can He Meet the Demand? Fury Given a Clear Warning To Who He Want To Fight Next

Tyson Fury may have announced his retirement, but there is still plenty of hope he will fight Anthony Joshua.

‘The Gypsy King’ revealed he was walking away from the sport in a brief social media post at the start of January. It came just weeks after his second consecutive loss to Oleksandr Usyk.

The first of those in May was for all four belts and undisputed honours. Fury lost narrowly on points. The second was for three of the four belts and saw the Ukrainian take the win again, handing Fury his second professional loss.

For many years, the former world champion was long linked with a fight with fellow Brit Joshua and it seemed the time was now right given that Joshua also lost his last fight against Dubois in September, leaving both men with seemingly nowhere better to go than this legacy-defining contest.

Speaking on The Ariel Helwani Show, promoter Eddie Hearn outlined what must happen if the fight is to go ahead next given that Joshua – who has also lost twice to Usyk – is keen to fight on.

“When you talk about Tyson Fury, he would need to come out of retirement in the next couple of weeks to fight ‘AJ’ next because ‘AJ ‘is looking to fight himself, twice this year, first one in the summer, June, whenever that is going to be, then again at the end of the year. If Fury doesn’t come out of retirement soon that fight is not going to happen next.”

Right now, Fury remains retried with no word of any change of heart

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Dubois Challenges Usyk Again—Is Anthony Joshua Out of the Picture?

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Dubois Challenges Usyk Again—Is Anthony Joshua Out of the Picture?

Promoter Frank Warren explains that if he beats Joseph Parker, Daniel Dubois will target an Oleksandr Usyk rematch rather than Anthony Joshua; Daniel Dubois defends the IBF heavyweight world title against Joseph Parker on February 22, live on Sky Sports Box Office

Anthony Joshua could have missed out on the chance to get a fight with the Daniel Dubois vs Joseph Parker winner next.

Dubois defends the IBF heavyweight world championship against New Zealand’s Parker on February 22, live on Sky Sports Box Office.

Oleksandr Usyk Reveals Whether Anthony Joshua-Daniel Dubois Will Be For IBF World Title - Seconds Out

If Britain’s Dubois is victorious, he’ll look to take on Oleksandr Usyk, the unified WBC, WBA and WBO titlist, for an undisputed heavyweight world championship in his next fight.

That would be a rematch for Dubois, who lost to Usyk in 2023 in Poland.

Usyk did visit the canvas in that fight, from a shot that was ruled low. The Ukrainian took his allotted recovery time and rose to halt Dubois in the ninth round.

Dubois went on to become the IBF champion last year and knocked out Anthony Joshua in his most recent fight.

Despite talk of an immediate rematch with Dubois, Joshua, formerly a unified champion himself, will likely have to wait for another world title shot.

“First of all, [Daniel Dubois] has got to get through a tough fight in Riyadh on February 22 against Parker,” promoter Frank Warren told Sky Sports News.

That is no walk in the park, that’s going to be a tough fight. If he comes through that, he’s got a lot of options.

“But the big fight that he wants is the rematch with Usyk. Very controversial [first] fight. Those four minutes in that fight when he hurt him – I thought it was a legal blow, I’m not going to go into all that stuff – but he hurt him and he probably gave him his toughest fight he’s had.

“I think he can beat him. I think the form he’s in now, I think he can beat Usyk.”

Then Dubois would be the undisputed world champion, the status Usyk held when he first beat Tyson Fury before he had to vacate the IBF belt.

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“[Going undisputed] that’s what this heavyweight thing is all about,” Warren said.

Warren is convinced that Dubois will defeat Parker. The New Zealander has claimed he can take the champion to breaking point in their fight.

But thinking Dubois will quit, Warren warned, would be a grave miscalculation. “[Jarrell] Miller did, [Filip] Hrgovic did and AJ did. They all said the same thing and he stopped them all. All of them. Stopped them all. Done it in style and come from behind in a couple of those fights,” the promoter explained.

“Against Hrgovic, you look at those first three rounds. It was a tough three rounds to get through but then he grit his teeth and showed what he’s about and it’s the same with AJ. Going into that fight with AJ, AJ was on a roll he had some good wins, the crowd was behind him. From the very first bell he [Dubois] was the governor.

“In the last four fights, including Usyk, he’s been the underdog and he’s upset the odds in three of those fights.

“Twenty-seven years of age, he’s matured not just physically but mentally. He’s showing what he’s all about. For the first time in five fights he goes in as the favourite, against a former world champion in Joe Parker, who is on a roll, a big roll at the moment.

“So this fight again is going to be something extra, extra special.”

Daniel Dubois vs Joseph Parker and the Artur Beterbiev vs Dmitry Bivol rematch will be live on Saturday February 22 on Sky Sports Box Office. Book now!

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After Beating Wallin, You will be SUPRISED to see those Chisora is EYEING NEXT….

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After Beating Wallin, You will be SUPRISED to see those Chisora is EYEING NEXT....

Derek Chisora won again, and threw out three big names for his potential 50th fight later this year.

Derek Chisora did his thing yet again, out-working and out-fighting Otto Wallin over 12 rounds in an IBF heavyweight eliminator today in Manchester, scoring a win by unanimous decision.

Judges saw it 114-112, 116-110, and 117-109 for the veteran. Bad Left Hook unofficially scored the fight 117-109 for Chisora.

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Chisora (36-13, 23 KO) has said he wants to do 50 pro fights, and this was No. 49, so the next one may be the last. And he’s fought himself into position, given how boxing works, for it to possibly be a world title fight.

The 41-year-old Chisora opened up a big lead in the fight by controlling the tempo and keeping Wallin (27-3, 15 KO) from achieving much at all, or even attempting to do a whole lot for most of the bout. Wallin was down in the ninth round on a right hand, and went down again just before the final bell of the evening, clipped as Chisora was winging both hands, as he did many times.

Watch highlights of Oleksandr Usyk's unanimous points decision win over Derek Chisora in their heavyweight fight

Chisora then presented the crowd with three options for his 50th fight: Oleksandr Usyk, Anthony Joshua, and Daniel Dubois. The crowd was most positive about the Joshua idea, and least about Dubois.

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The Next Heavyweight King? Rising Star Promises to Destroy Joshua & Wilder!

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The Next Heavyweight King? Rising Star Promises to Destroy Joshua & Wilder!

Anthony Joshua and Deontay Wilder each have one last crack at the big time left.

The two former heavyweight champions have defined an era in the sport’s top division – though never managed to face off – by capturing all belts between them and producing both thrilling nights and highlight reel knockouts.

Their fortunes have turned in recent times, however, with ‘AJ’s run of four good wins being abruptly halted when he attempted to become a three-time champion against Daniel Dubois. The younger man kept hold of his IBF belt with an emphatic fifth round stoppage.

After Wilder was relieved of his WBC strap by Tyson Fury, he has been largely inactive, scoring a first round KO of Robert Helenius but falling short against Joseph Parker on points in his eventual return. He was then stopped by China’s Zhilei Zhang, also in five.

With both men planning comeback bouts this year, they must contend with a rising and thriving crop of heavyweights, one of which is Martin Bakole.

The feared heavyweight, who most recently stopped highly-touted prospect Jared Anderson, told BOXXER that he stops Joshua and Wilder easily.

Bakole – who has been branded the ‘future heavyweight king’ by Oleksandr Usyk’s promoter Alex Krassyuk – will co-star in a final eliminator against Efe Ajagbe for the IBF mandatory slot in May. Should he win, he will be called to challenge Dubois for the belt, or Joseph Parker should the New Zealander beat the Brit this month.

‘AJ’ is also an option for Bakole, with a big clash in Africa sought after but not yet properly discussed. As for Wilder, he is expected back in the ring in April for a warm-up fight before looking to bigger things.

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