Paul, a YouTuber-turned-boxer, was out of his depth as he continued to run around the ring rather then engage and when we did get up close to Joshua it was usually to wrestle him around the ankles.
The tactics employed by Paul were booed by those in attendance at the Kaseya Center in Miami.
Joshua too was growing an increasingly frustrated figure early on and the referee had to step in with and tell Paul ‘fans did not pay to see this c***’.
It looked like the Brit would get the win in the fifth round when he knocked Paul down twice but the latter’s stay of execution was over in the sixth.
Knocked down once in that round, Joshua finished the American in the corner with a powerful and clean right hand that Paul could not recover from, prompting the referee to wave off the right.
‘It wasn’t the best performance,’ Joshua, 36, told Netflix during his post-fight interview in the ring.
‘The end goal was to pin Jake Paul down and hurt him. It took a bit longer than expected, but the right hand finally found the destination.’
Anthony Joshua calls out Tyson Fury
For the Brit, his focus now is to fight Tyson Fury – a fight that has been long-awaited by the boxing public.
This was his first fight since losing to Daniel Dubois at Wembley in September 2024 and he is expected to step in the ring again in February before taking on Fury later on in 2026 – something he is relishing.
‘I can’t wait to go into 2026. If Tyson Fury is as serious as he thinks he is, and he wants to put down his Twitter fingers and put on his gloves, and come and fight one of the realest fighters out, there then I’ll take on the challenge.
‘Step in the ring with me next if you’re a real bad boy.’
Jake Paul suffers a double broken jaw
For Paul, he will be licking his wounds in more ways than one after suffering a double broken jaw.
