MMA legend Matt Brown doesn’t believe Jake Paul was there to beat Anthony Joshua in their boxing match last week.
On Friday night, Jake Paul took on Anthony Joshua in a blockbuster crossover boxing match. It took place at heavyweight, it was fully sanctioned and pitted Paul against a legitimate former world heavyweight champion. He spent much of the fight circling and running away from AJ, and at some points even decided to try for a takedown.
But in the end, Anthony Joshua delivered the decisive blow with a knockout punch that left Jake Paul unable to continue. It also left Miami with a broken jaw, and while he had successful surgery for it in the days following, you’d have to imagine this will keep him out of action for some time.
In a recent podcast appearance, the aforementioned Matt Brown weighed in on the Jake Paul discussion.
Matt Brown questions Jake Paul vs. Anthony Joshua
“There’s nothing respectable about what he did in the fight itself,” Brown said on the latest episode of The Fighter vs. TheWriter. “It’s not like he went out on his shield. He didn’t go out flailing or anything like that. He ran until he couldn’t run anymore… and what happened then was exactly what we expected.
“That’s about the whole moral of the story of what we’re saying. Guys, people are listening, just look through it. Look through all this nonsense. Jake Paul was in up to his ears. He was there to survive, he wasn’t there to win. But he made the bag so good for him and we looked at it. So good for him. We’re talking about him now. Good for him.”
“Everyone at some point has said, ‘I’d do it for that amount of money,’” Brown said. “He was really able to make that happen. I respect that and respect that hustle. He’s able to put up such a big fight, able to make it happen. He put up a real fight. It obviously wasn’t faked. So there are things you have to respect in that regard. To respect his performance, or just respect the simple fact that he walked in there, I’m not on that page that much. There’s nothing respectable about what he did that night.”
“I respect the business hustle. I respect that he was able to make this fight happen. Because we can sit here and say I would go in there for $90 million, but we can’t. We don’t have that opportunity. He’s capable of creating that opportunity for himself. Good that he can do that. But the fact that he just walked in there, there’s nothing to respect about that.”
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