Anthony Joshua and Jake Paul during their heavyweight bout at the Kaseya Center, Miami, Florida. Friday December 19, 2026. PA Photo. Photo credit should read: JC Ruiz/PA Wire. RESTRICTIONS: Use subject to restrictions. Editorial use only, no commercial use without prior consent from rights holder.
Paul (right) was repeatedly knocked down by Joshua (Photo: PA)
Now let this never happen again, writes Steve Bunce from Miami for The i Paper:
It was strange to watch as Paul shuffled from corner to corner, occasionally trying a hopeful right and often claiming Joshua, who remained calm at Paul’s spoiling tactics. Paul was bundled over in an ugly rolling mess 10 or more times; it was not a good spectacle to watch, but nobody cared.
The fight existed under a canopy of assumptions; it was a hoax, a fix, a disgrace, a carnival, the end of boxing.
In the end, it was none of those things. It was just an old-fashioned mismatch. It was only ever going to be a mismatch; nothing sinister, just one man letting his delusions take over.
Read Steve Bunce’s full analysis here