When Jake Paul agreed to box former Olympic gold medalist and former two-time heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua, most people knew it was an enormous mismatch. Predictably, the bout ended with Paul on the canvas for the final time midway through the sixth round.
Joshua knocked Paul down four times in the fight. Paul’s strategy appeared to be to run, stay on the move and not stand in front of the hard hitting Joshua. As the fight played out, Paul slowed and became more stationary. Joshua walked him down and finished with a right hand that left Paul with a broken jaw
UFC CEO Dana White doesn’t think the fight should have taken place, or even been sanctioned by an athletic commission.
“It’s crazy that that fight was even allowed to happen,” White told Complex News. “Crazy.”
Paul is recovering but already plotting his next boxing match. “The Problem Child” called out former UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou. White believes Paul will continue to book fights for a long as people keep paying for them, but thinks the Joshua fight was an embarrassment.
“As long as people keep wanting to pay and watch him fight I guess he can keep doing it. It’s just not what I do,” White said. “To even comment on it, I think everybody that was involved in that thing should be embarrassed.”
“It’s not what I’m into. Not my thing.”
