{"id":679107,"date":"2026-01-07T04:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T04:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/679107\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T04:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T04:00:11","slug":"jake-paul-vs-anthony-joshua-was-not-the-biggest-boxing-event-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/679107\/","title":{"rendered":"Jake Paul vs. Anthony Joshua was NOT the biggest boxing event of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Some of the biggest names in boxing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/boxing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">returned to competition in 2025<\/a>, including Canelo Alvarez, Oleksandr Usyk, Manny Pacquiao and even Jake Paul. A couple of years ago, they would have run you out of town for including \u201cEl Gallo\u201d among that list of all-time greats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The data is broken down by Searches (S), Attendance (A), Purse (P), and Final Score (FS):<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\"><strong>Callum Smith vs. Joshua Buatsi<\/strong><br \/>S: 590<br \/>A: 25,000<br \/>P: 2,000,000<br \/>FS: 9<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">How did they come up with those numbers?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cSearch volume, attendance and purse data were collected from Google Keyword Planner, the World Boxing Association website and major sports publications,\u201d according to the report. \u201cThese metrics were weighted and indexed to rank the year\u2019s biggest fights from largest to smallest. Where figures were not publicly available, values may be estimates and may not reflect real life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Early predictions for biggest fight of 2026? I vote for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/boxing\/408496\/mike-tyson-vs-floyd-mayweather-heading-to-africa-in-march-2026-per-iron-mike\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some of the biggest names in boxing returned to competition in 2025, including Canelo Alvarez, Oleksandr Usyk, Manny&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,126861,118964,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-679107","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-boxing-news-results","10":"tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115851822523341853","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679107","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=679107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}