The previous UFC champion believes Jake Paul and Anthony Joshua had a gentleman’s settlement earlier than their heavyweight boxing match.
Former heavyweight boxing champion Anthony Joshua taught Jake Paul that there are ranges to the “candy science” of boxing, however his knockout victory left one UFC star with extra questions than solutions.
Joshua defeated Paul by knockout within the sixth spherical of their extremely anticipated battle in Miami final weekend. When Joshua dropped Paul onto the ropes with a tough proper hand, the referee intervened and stopped the match, awarding Joshua the victory.
Paul’s boxing profession has been marred by conspiracy theories, a few of whom consider his matches are staged. The previous UFC titleholder believes this narrative in opposition to Joshua has not been disproved.
Aljamain Sterling: Anthony Joshua vs. Jake Paul ‘performed with meals’
In a latest video uploaded to him, YouTube Former UFC bantamweight champion Aljamain Sterling shared his distinctive perspective on the Paul vs. Joshua battle and the way it unfolded.
“Once I was watching this, my rapid thought was, the place are the traces?” Sterling stated of Paul vs. Joshua. “As a result of in Anthony Joshua, you have got an Olympic-level, excellent-level, world-class boxer who appears like he is taking part in with meals and persons are sitting there consuming it and being like, ‘Oh, Jake’s doing a extremely good job. He is shifting his legs. He is away.'” It is like, “Oh, are you saying this man forgot lower a hoop?”
“…My feeling is that with a man like him, with Anthony Joshua’s boxing expertise and all of the expertise he is had combating different world-class fighters, it simply cannot occur, as a result of we have seen how he fights them. After which alongside comes Jake Paul, who’s comparatively new to boxing. He is fairly expert for a man at his stage, contemplating how lengthy he is been in boxing, however he would not battle guys on the identical stage as fantastically adorned like Anthony Joshua.” (h/t MMA Junkie)
