Jake Paul issued a warning to Deontay Wilder and anyone else publicly questioning the legitimacy of his heavyweight fight against Anthony Joshua.
Wilder, a former WBC champ and Joshua’s longtime rival, told Daily Mail Sport last week he thinks Paul-Joshua is “scripted.”
Paul addressed that accusation during their final press conference saying he gave them a cease-and-desist letter in their email for lying on his name, and then the lawsuit’s coming right after, because these people will not stop lying.
The former YouTuber says he takes it as a compliment, but people need to shut the [expletive] up adding that Deontay Wilder has been hit a lot by Tyson Fury so he is clearly not the smartest guy.
He says there is nothing in the contract – AJ can attest to it that they are going to war and that is, at the end of the day what all his fights have been like.
Paul, 28, is a novice compared to Joshua, a 2012 Olympic gold medalist and two-time unified heavyweight champion who has fought an impressive list of current and former titleholders during his decade at the top of his division.
The 6-foot-6 Joshua stands approximately five inches taller than Paul and weighed 243.4 pounds yesterday, almost 27 more than the 216.6-pound Paul, when they stepped on the Florida Athletic Commission’s scale.
The controversial Paul (12-1, 7 KOs) has taken constant criticism throughout his nearly six-year run in boxing. His fight with 58-year-old Mike Tyson 13 months ago was intensely scrutinized, especially because Paul admitted after he out-pointed the former heavyweight champion that he “carried” Tyson in a fight Netflix streamed worldwide.
Netflix will also stream the bout between Paul and Joshua (28-4, 25 KOs), who hasn’t fought since fellow Brit Daniel Dubois knocked him out in the fifth round of their IBF title fight in September 2024 at a sold-out Wembley Stadium in London.
Joshua, 36, also assured skeptics during their final press conference that there aren’t any restrictions in their contracts that would prohibit him from approaching Paul like any other opponent in a government-regulated boxing match.
The fight program will start at 1pm tomorrow which will be streamed on Netflix.
Source: theringmagazine
