Anthony Joshua turns to high-profile training team for ‘colossal’ Jake Paul bout

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Anthony Joshua is leaving nothing to chance ahead of his comeback bout against YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul in Miami next month.The 36-year-old, who has not fought since his devasting knockout loss to Daniel Dubois in September last year, has linked up with the team behind reigning world champion Oleksandr Usyk to prepare for the eight-round contest on December 19.

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00:00You've got to give credit to Jake and his team. They reached out to me, to be fair, and it was a great opportunity for me.

00:07So it's an opportunity for me to fight. I wanted to take 12 years out, 12 months out of the game, and I'd done that.

00:15And then it was time to get back to work, so I was planning on fighting anyway.

00:20And actually, I would have been fighting this weekend if I had it my way.

00:24And this opportunity presented itself, and I said, yeah, why not? It's great. I think it's massive.

00:29It's colossal. It's making big news. We're bringing marketability together with ability.

00:36Those two worlds collide. You've got Jake Paul versus Anthony Joshua, and we're here in Miami.

00:41We're bringing Europe, Africa, Asia, Nigeria, the whole world together to watch this show on Netflix.

00:49It's going to be phenomenal, and that's how we ended up here, basically.

00:51Two guys that just want to put on a good show.

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