We live in crazy times. With a view to the price boxing, it can even be said: We live in the stupid possible reality. Proof of evidence? The social media influencer Jake Paul is acted as opponents of the heavyweight stars Anthony Joshua and Oleksandr Usyk.
Against who celebrates Anthony Joshua his comeback in the ring planned for the end of the year? If you can believe his promoter Eddie Hearn, a struggle that should never exist in a reasonable world: AJ against the Youtuber Jake Paul.
The chances of the circus fight are “50:50”, Hearn said in an interview with “The Ring”: The whole “very real”.
He had a good conversation with the warehouse of the social media star, the Briton continued. “I’m really galube that you want this fight,” reported Hearn.
Because of the “size of the fight” he believes that “there is a very big chance that it can happen. If I had to quantify the chance, I would say Fifty-Fifty.”
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The Youtuber Paul has been trying to be a boxer since 2020 and has won twelve of 13 duels (seven by KO). So far, he has been predominated with the previous former MMA fighter in the ring, last year he beat the 58-year-old (!) Box icon Mike Tyson over eight laps in a show fight on Netflix on Netflix.
“AJ understands the commercial world, will look at and see that it is huge. It might be the biggest struggle that could ever take place somewhere.
The promoter said several times that he himself was not a fan of the idea of Joshua vs. Paul. “There is the fear factor. This is dangerous. You are in the ring with one of the biggest punchers in history, this is not a game,” he emphasized.
“We never said that this is our goal, but I also understand how colossal this fight is financially and many people are probably hot that Jake Paul disappears from the boxing,” said Hearn.
Jake Paul vs. Oleksandr USYK in the MMA cage?
But not only Joshua is in the game as a possible opponent of 28-year-old YouTuber-also heavyweight king Oleksandr USYK.
“This struggle is widely discussed,” revealed USYK’s former promoter Alexander Krassyuk den. “World Boxing News”. The duel could not be a boxing match, “because that’s homicide”.
There is therefore a fight in the cage according to MMA rules. “Even a cage struggle gives the young YouTuber no chances. But money speaks. And this event can generate considerable numbers.”