Will folks pay massive cash to see Jake Paul get knocked out?
After a string of victories over past-their-prime MMA and boxing stars, ‘The Drawback Little one’ is concentrating on a conflict with the previous unified heavyweight world champion, claiming that he would “f***ing beat Anthony Joshua’s a**.” Initially, the callout was disregarded by followers and pundits alike, lots of them accusing Paul of clout chasing.
That was till famed British boxing promoter Eddie Hearn insisted {that a} struggle between the 2 was a “very actual” risk, placing the percentages of it taking place at “50/50.”
Regardless of coming off a tricky loss towards Daniel Dubois in his final outing, Joshua remains to be thought-about to be one of many heavyweight division’s premiere knockout artists, and Ariel Helwani believes folks pays massive cash to see him ship Jake Paul to the shadow realm.
“Individuals will tune in and folks pays the hard-earned money simply to see AJ knock him out,” Helwani stated on Ariel x Ade. “For AJ, that is simply—I imply, stealing sweet from a child.”
Tyson Fury able to wager massive on Jake Paul towards Anthony Joshua
Jake Paul’s current victory over Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. drew plenty of criticism from struggle followers because it appeared the 2 have been phoning it in — the same criticism lobbed at Paul’s extremely anticipated and mildly-received conflict towards boxing icon ‘Iron’ Mike Tyson in November.
Up to now, Paul has solely fought one “authentic” lively boxer in his profession, that being Tyson Fury’s little brother, Tommy Fury. Paul ended up shedding the bout by way of break up determination, handing him his first and solely loss to date.
In line with Playing 911, Paul solely has a 7.7% likelihood of beating Joshua, however that gained’t cease the elder Fury from plunking down one million {dollars} on ‘The Drawback Little one.’
“Jake Paul chins AJ, sure,” Fury stated in an interview with iFL TV. “100%. In the event that they struggle, I’m placing one million kilos on Jake Paul.”
