00:00Where you at?
00:01What's going on, bro?
00:02You're the old guy now, that's crazy.
00:05Hey, so what are you going to do?
00:07What are you going to do to score like that?
00:09You've lost every single one of them.
00:12You've lost every single round.
00:16This could be a legacy end of AJ.
00:30The boxing world has gone wild reacting to the intense showdown between Jake Paul and Anthony Joshua.
01:00You've lost every single one of them.
01:30You've lost every single one of them.
02:00You've lost every single one of my girls.
02:02Come on, bro.
02:08You've lost every single one of them.
02:10You've lost every single one of them.
05:54It's a money grab.
05:56There's no doubt about that.
05:58Joe Rogan, who's podcast is one of the biggest stages for combat sport thinking sounded almost
06:17paternal when he weighed in.
06:18He said the proposition was one of the craziest he'd seen and repeatedly warned that Joshua
06:24carries one punch knockout power that can end a man's night or his career.
06:28Rogan's commentary was tinged with a mix of admiration for Paul's hustle and genuine concern
06:33for how unforgiving the heavyweight division can be.
06:36He wasn't making a heroic pick for Paul.
06:38He wasn't making a heroic pick for Paul so much as issuing a cautionary bulletin.
06:40His point was simple.
06:42The numbers might favor Joshua, but a single punch makes that math optional.
06:46Nuclear power.
06:47One punch.
06:48And he's fast.
06:50Tyson Fury, who has a flair for both the performative and the provocative, sat oddly with the contrarians.
06:56Fury has publicly suggested he'd back Paul to land the kind of punch that changes everything,
07:01even gambling on the upset in conversation.
07:04That's striking because Fury is one of heavyweight boxing's loudest voices and
07:07rarely anoints outsiders without a reason.
07:10When Fury talked up Paul's chances, it moved the narrative not because Fury's opinion rewrites metrics,
07:15but because he's a living, breathing measure of heavyweight cred, and he was effectively saying,
07:21don't sleep on the underdog.
07:22Meanwhile, Oleksandr Usyk kept his comments measured, but not dismissive.
07:27When legends of the division speak, people listen,
07:30and Usyk's tone was enough to remind observers of the hard arithmetic of skill and experience
07:35at the elite level.
07:36He didn't offer a wild contrarian pick so much as a sober endorsement of the view
07:40that Joshua is a real test at heavyweight and that crossing weight classes and reputations
07:45is never neat.
07:46It's the sort of measured read that adds credibility to the AJ-favored column,
07:51the steady voice you hear when the TV lights are lowered.
07:53Amir Khan, with his usual dramatic streak, framed the stakes politically.
07:57For Khan, this fight was a referendum on what we call influencer boxing.
08:02He argued that Anthony Joshua could stop influencer boxing with a brutal knockout,
08:07phrasing the fight as an existential moment for the movement that produced Paul.
08:11Khan's pick was emphatic, AJ by stoppage, because for him, it was never just about money or spectacle.
08:18It was about preserving a line between traditional heavyweight pedigree and the social media era's
08:22ability to shortcut that route.
08:24Dana White, who spends most of his time running the UFC but has eyes on every fight that moves
08:29the needle, was blunt.
08:30That's a bad idea, he said publicly.
08:33White's take reads like a promoter's shrug and a ringside warning at once.
08:37He expected Joshua's size and experience to overwhelm Paul, and his remarks carried the
08:41extra weight of someone who's watched fighters step into mismatches, sometimes at a cost.
08:46White wasn't romantic about the matchup.
08:48He was pragmatic and a little cynical about the narrative risk to a crossover figure stepping
08:53into true heavyweight danger.
08:55David Hay was one of the more intriguing voices because he bucked the conservative tide.
08:59Hay suggested the upset was possible, even historic, a headline-grabbing call that turned
09:04heads because Hay himself is a former heavyweight champion who understands the stakes.
09:09When Hay talked about Paul's restraint in earlier fights and the unpredictability that
09:13sometimes hides inside a newer fighter, he positioned himself with the hope-laden contrarians.
09:18Paul's path isn't orthodox, but that doesn't mean it's impossible.
09:22Hay's voice added a layer of genuine tactical curiosity to the underdog argument.
09:26Michael Bisping, who wears his common-sense skepticism like a badge from his UFC days,
09:31expressed concern that Paul could walk away from the experience broken, physically or mentally.
09:36That isn't a prediction about who wins.
09:38It's a comment about costs and consequences.
09:40Bisping's take mattered because it framed the discussion not solely as a sporting curiosity,
09:45but as something that could have real human fallout.
09:48His alarm was telling.
09:49The fight was more than a spectacle, and fighters' careers hung on nights like this.
09:53Yeah, the odds are high because Anthony Joshua is out there saying that he's going to kill Jake Paul.
10:01And a lot of people have come out of the woodworks, they're talking a lot of crap.
10:04Tyson Fury, number one.
10:06You big bum, useless dosser.
10:07Get up, and I can't wait if Jake Paul not just spark out, you big bum.
10:10But yeah, Anthony Joshua said that he will kill Jake Paul.
10:14He will kill someone in the ring if he can kill them.
10:17He's a respectful guy.
10:19He was raised by a good family.
10:20But if he can kill Jake Paul, then he's going to kill him.
10:23But Pauly Malignaggi, never one to mince words, delivered what felt like an old boxing man verdict.
10:28He gave a pragmatic, if grim, view of Paul's situation, acknowledging Jake's craft improvements,
10:34but saying bluntly that facing a seasoned, hungry heavyweight is a different animal.
10:38Malignaggi's commentary was a mixture of respect for Paul's progression
10:41and a stern warning about what AJ's pressure and power can do to someone who's never consistently fought top heavyweights.
10:48When Paulie speaks about head movement and timing, people tend to listen because he speaks from a ring of experience and hard losses.
10:55Eddie Hearn, who had a foot in both camps as the promoter architect around so many crossover spectacles, set the theater tone.
11:02He mapped out a script in interviews that assumed an aggressive AJ opening and a quick finish.
11:06Not as a boast, but as the commercial logic of how he expected the crowd to get what it wanted.
11:11That public script touched nerves because it sounded like a promoter telling the story he needed to sell,
11:16while also being a practical business case.
11:18When massive money is at stake, narratives get tidy.
11:21Hearn's commentary was both marketing and prediction.
11:24That's it for today's video.
11:26Stay tuned until next time.
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