\n<\/p>\n
Promoter Eddie Hearn says he misled Jake Paul’s representatives by claiming Anthony Joshua was heavier than he was in order to agree a favourable weight stipulation for their fight.<\/b><\/p>\n
Briton Joshua, a former two-time unified heavyweight champion, will face the YouTuber-turned-boxer at the Kaseya Center in Miami on 19 December.<\/p>\n
Joshua has weighed more than 250lb (17st 12lb) in each of his past three fights, but must come in under 245lb (17st 7lb). Both fighters will wear regulation 10oz gloves.<\/p>\n
“I spoke to AJ and he was sitting at 265lb (18st 13lb) or something like that. I think I told Nakisa [Bidarian – co-founder of Most Valuable Promotions] that he was 290lb (20st) or something like that,” Hearn told the 5 Live Boxing podcast. <\/p>\n
The fight, streamed live on Netflix, is scheduled for eight three-minute rounds.<\/p>\n
It will be a professional contest between one of Britain’s most decorated heavyweights and a former Disney Channel actor who has reinvented himself as a pay-per-view attraction.<\/p>\n
“I said I’m not interested in balloon gloves and two-minute rounds but he said it was a real fight. I asked if it was 10 rounds or eight rounds – they said fine to eight,” Hearn added. <\/p>\n
“They said ‘the only thing is that Jake will weigh about 220lb (15st 10lb) or 225lb (16st 1lb) and we want AJ to come down in weight’.<\/p>\n
“He’s a heavyweight and hasn’t cut weight before. They said, ‘look we’re not being funny and it’s not that we need an advantage but we need you to have some disadvantage’.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Promoter Eddie Hearn says he misled Jake Paul’s representatives by claiming Anthony Joshua was heavier than he was in order to agree a favourable weight stipulation for their fight. Briton Joshua, a former two-time unified heavyweight champion, will face the YouTuber-turned-boxer at the Kaseya Center in Miami on 19 December. Joshua has weighed more than<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boxing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}