Anthony Joshua calls Jake Paul after YouTuber | Boxing News

Anthony Joshua has sparked buzz round a potential struggle with YouTube sensation Jake Paul after he returned the call from the social media star who boasts he might “f***ing beat Anthony Joshua’s ass”. Despite not having fought since his victory over 58 12 months outdated Mike Tyson final November, and having didn’t secure fights with boxing giants like Canelo Alvarez and Gervonta Davis, Paul is now making daring claims about taking up Joshua.

“I want to fight Anthony Joshua because I know I will f***ing beat Anthony Joshua’s ass,” declared Paul on his YouTube collection BS with Jake Paul. “He doesn’t have a chin and he has no skill and he’s stiff.”

The provocateur continued, expressing a mixture of camaraderie and problem: “I love you, Anthony, we’re friends and all this s*** but I want to fight you. I will beat Canelo, I will beat a lot of f***ing people.”

Joshua, for his half, responded by calling Paul, with each events posting glimpses of their dialog captioned 2026, hinting at a tantalising face-off within the close to future. AJ, whose final bout was a defeat to Daniel Dubois in September, appears to be contemplating the problem laid down by Paul.

The 35 12 months outdated had been tipped to tackle Tyson Fury this 12 months, however these plans have been scuppered when the Gypsy King declared he was hanging up his gloves following his rematch loss to Oleksandr Usyk in December.

Speculation has been rife over a potential bout between Paul and Joshua, ever since Paul’s promoter, Nakisa Bidarian, advised such an encounter could possibly be on the playing cards final November.

“Jake’s feedback to me was I want to do that fight,” Bidarian revealed in a chat with Sky Sports.

“Not now. But I want to do that fight. To be a world champion at cruiserweight, he wants to do that.”

He additionally added: “The other is to test the limits of expectations. Test the limits of what’s possible. This event with Mike Tyson, that tested the limits of what was possible for the world to see and him fighting Anthony Joshua or Daniel Dubois is kind of the same thing.”

Bidarian remarked on Paul’s bodily readiness too, saying, “Jake weighed in at 227lbs but really he walks around at 215. But he’ll do it for the right environment, the right framework. It isn’t about the money.”

In a pointed reference to Paul’s motivations, Bidarian concluded, “He’s made lots of money from the time he was 18 years old. It’s really about disruption. It’s really about doing things that make you say: ‘Wow, that really happened.’ That’s what excites us.”