{"id":178169,"date":"2025-06-12T10:37:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T10:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/178169\/"},"modified":"2025-06-12T10:37:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T10:37:16","slug":"jake-paul-leaks-anthony-joshua-private-messages-as-pair-get-brutal-over-fight-and-daniel-dubois-ko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/178169\/","title":{"rendered":"Jake Paul leaks Anthony Joshua private messages as pair get brutal over fight and Daniel Dubois KO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jake Paul and Anthony Joshua are starting to set up an intriguing storyline for a ring showdown in 2026.<\/strong><\/p>\n

YouTuber-turned-boxer Paul issued a hugely surprising call-out<\/a> to former two-time heavyweight world champion Joshua this year.<\/p>\n

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Paul and Joshua are now going back and forth over a clash<\/p>\n

The pair spoke on a phone call<\/a> where it was revealed that an extraordinary fight could take place next year.<\/p>\n

Paul has now astonishingly revealed that the trash talk has continued behind-closed-doors.<\/p>\n

And the American even went as far as mocking him for his KO defeat to Daniel Dubois, in savage exchanges over private messages.<\/p>\n

He explained: “It was all nice, we’ve been cordial. <\/p>\n

“He DM’d me today like saying “LOL” to one of my training clips and then I sent him a LOL’ with a picture of him getting knocked out by Daniel Dubois.<\/p>\n

“And so I guess like we’re kind of s*** talking, behind the scenes a bit. But I have a lot of love for Anthony Joshua.<\/p>\n

“I think this type of stuff is funny and he’s a great guy and I think just a fight between us would be awesome and I do believe I can win.”<\/p>\n

Paul’s first focus will be on his upcoming tilt with former world champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr<\/a> on June 28.<\/p>\n

Should he get past the Mexican, it could first set up a planned exhibition with Gervonta Davis<\/a> at the back end of 2025.<\/p>\n

And then Joshua would be deemed a realistic option for next year according to Paul.<\/p>\n

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Paul is open to fighting Joshua at heavyweight but only in 2026Credit: Al Bello\/Getty Images for Netflix<\/p>\n

AJ hasn’t fought since his loss to Dubois, and recently had surgery on an elbow injury.<\/p>\n

The former Olympian is eyeing a comeback before the end of 2025 as he looks to put his name back into the world title mix.<\/p>\n

Joshua accepted Paul’s previous call-out and insisted he’d be open to make the commercial blockbuster happen.<\/p>\n

But the Briton’s promoter Eddie Hearn isn’t sure how authentic the call from Paul is<\/a>, given how far down the line he has proposed.<\/p>\n

He told talkSPORT.com: “Jake might be mad enough to do it.<\/p>\n

“Because all Jake thinks about is the money, right? The money he will get for fighting AJ is obscene.<\/p>\n

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Joshua was knocked out last year but will be making an imminent comebackCredit: GETTY<\/p>\n

“But he doesn’t take into consideration the medical consequences that would come for a fight like that.<\/p>\n

“There is potential that you may never see his head again after that fight.<\/p>\n

“But he did say 2026. That’s a bit like saying I’m going to win gold in the surfing in the\u00a0Olympics<\/a>\u00a0in 2028. You know what I mean? Why not now?<\/p>\n

“It’s definitely not a fight that was on the radar for AJ. But in the mad world that we live in, I’d never say never.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jake Paul and Anthony Joshua are starting to set up an intriguing storyline for a ring showdown in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[5060,1935,5061,17819,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-178169","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-anthony-joshua","9":"tag-boxing","10":"tag-daniel-dubois","11":"tag-jake-paul","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114669960910586450","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}