Carl Froch has never been a particular fan of Jake Paul or Anthony Joshua and has now given his review of their clash this past weekend.
This huge mismatch saw the smaller, less experienced Paul take on 6ft6 former two-time unified world champion Joshua in what many thought was an unsafe contest.
Joshua was returning from more than a year out of the ring and struggled to catch up with Paul in the early rounds as the American was intent on using every inch of the 22 x 22ft ring to stay out of danger.
Joshua eventually caught up with him and shattered his jaw with a clean, straight right to end the fight in round six.
On Froch on Fighting, ‘The Cobra’ was characteristically straight talking with his breakdown of the contest.
“Anthony Joshua did the job in six rounds, got Jake Paul out of there, dropped him. It wasn’t a bad knockout, it wasn’t an ‘El Sparko’, he wasn’t rendered unconscious. He got done, he got hit on the chin, he went over, he didn’t beat the count. If I’m honest the whole fight was terrible, it was so bad, just s**t. A proper bad fight for ‘AJ.’
“‘AJ’ was following him around the ring for a bit, pawing with the jab, putting it on the shoulder of Jake Paul, putting him in the corner, not really pulling the trigger on the right hand.
“He didn’t seem to be motivated to just go in there and smash Jake Paul into oblivion in the first one or two rounds, which I think he could have done. He’s been out of the ring 15 months, bit slow on his feet, but of ring rust maybe.”
Joshua will be glad to have banked a considerable amount of money for what was an easy night’s work as he now looks ahead to 2026. Soon after the final bell, he began his callout of Tyson Fury, which is the fight the fans really want to see next, and which is already rumoured to be making progress.
