Former heavyweight boxing champion Anthony Joshua showed Jake Paul there are levels to the ‘sweet science’ of boxing, but his knockout victory left a UFC star with more questions than answers.
Joshua finished Paul with a sixth-round knockout in their highly anticipated showdown in Miami last weekend. After Joshua dropped Paul against the ropes with a thunderous right hand, the referee stepped in to wave off the fight and award Joshua the win.
Paul’s boxing career has been marred by conspiracy theories, including some believers who believe Paul’s fights were staged. A former UFC titleholder believes this story was not refuted against Joshua.
Aljamain Sterling: Anthony Joshua ‘played with his food’ against Jake Paul
In a recent video uploaded to his YouTube channel, former UFC bantamweight champion Aljamain Sterling shared a unique perspective on the Paul-Joshua fight and how it unfolded.
“My immediate thing when I looked at this was, where are the lines?” Sterling said about Paul vs. Joshua. “Because it felt like in Anthony Joshua you have an Olympic-level, high-caliber, world-class boxer who looks like he’s playing with his food, and people are sitting there eating it and saying, ‘Oh, Jake’s doing really well. He’s moving his feet. He’s staying away.’ I’m like, ‘Oh, you’re telling me this guy forgot how to cut the ring?’
“…The way I feel is that there simply isn’t a guy of his caliber, of Anthony Joshua’s boxing caliber, all the experience he has fighting all these other world-class guys because we’ve seen him fight them, and then in comes Jake Paul, who’s only just started boxing – he’s pretty skilled for a guy at his level, for how long he’s been boxing – but not at the heavyweight level. Not fighting a guy who’s just as good decorated as Anthony Jozua.” (h/t MMA junkie)
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