{"id":330329,"date":"2025-08-09T10:38:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T10:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/330329\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T10:38:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T10:38:15","slug":"absolute-frontrunner-for-anthony-joshuas-next-fight-named-its-very-dangerous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/330329\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Absolute Frontrunner’ For Anthony Joshua’s Next Fight Named: “It’s Very Dangerous”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anthony Joshua is currently plotting his next move in the heavyweight division and it could seriously divide fans.<\/p>\n

The two-time world champion and Olympic Gold Medalist<\/a> will look to bounce back from a knockout loss to Daniel Dubois when he steps through the ropes again.<\/p>\n

Though fans would like to see a long-awaited clash against Tyson Fury, \u2018The Gypsy King\u2019 remains adamant that he is retired and not interested.<\/a> That leaves \u2018AJ\u2019 in the market for another opponent, and the current \u2018frontrunner\u2019 is as far away from Fury as you might get: Jake Paul.<\/p>\n

Speaking to IFL TV,<\/a> promoter Eddie Hearn revealed that his most recent meetings with Paul\u2019s promotional company, MVP, have convinced him that their public calls to fight Joshua are legitimate.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe thing that I wanted to understand is do they really want to fight AJ or is this just a publicity stunt. And I am 99% sure they want to fight Anthony Joshua \u2026 Right now, the absolute frontrunner for AJ is Jake Paul, February or March next year.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The promoter then said that, whilst he understands the dangers the match-up possesses, those are outweighed by the potential scale of the event.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019ll stress, I think it\u2019s a very dangerous call for Jake Paul. I don\u2019t think the fight is overly competitive. Maybe Jake can do something and prove us all wrong. But people are gonna tune in to watch AJ demolish Jake Paul. It\u2019s not a fight that we called for, it\u2019s not a fight that we expected, it\u2019s not a fight that I ever anticipated happening, but I also understand that it may be commercially one of the biggest in the sport.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is just wild, that\u2019s all it is \u2026 It\u2019s mental that AJ could be fighting Jake Paul next, but when you look at it and see that it\u2019s probably the biggest pay-per-view fight that could happen in the sport right now, you understand why it could happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

A decision is expected in the coming months, as Joshua, should he choose to stick to traditional boxing, could be out before the end of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anthony Joshua is currently plotting his next move in the heavyweight division and it could seriously divide fans.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-330329","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114998378718584722","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330329","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=330329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}