Jake Paul could be set to step back into the ring with another former world heavyweight champion.
He famously took on boxing legend Mike Tyson in an extremely controversial bout last November, due to Tyson being 58-years-old at the time of the fight and having not competed professionally for nearly two decades.
The match-up went how most people expected it to, with Tyson struggling to compete with his much younger opponent as Paul claimed a unanimous decision victory after eight rounds.
‘The Problem Child’ has since returned with a victory over former WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr, and attention has now turned to who the YouTuber-turned-boxer is going to take on for his next contest.
That next opponent may have just been revealed, after Saudi chief Turki Alalshikh told ThaBoxingVoice that Paul has ‘agreed’ to a fight with former unified heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua.
“I am not against Jake Paul, I am just against some fights he do. I am thinking me and him, to doing him against Joshua now. Joshua if he destroys him, it would be good for me, Jake Paul is finished. The headache would go from my mind. If Jake wins, I would know that Joshua is finished and that Jake deserves ranking and his future in boxing… Jake Paul accept it. Next week I will talk with Joshua about it.”
Joshua was last in action in September, when he suffered a fifth round knockout defeat to IBF heavyweight champion Daniel Dubois, with it now approaching nearly 12 months since ‘AJ’ was last in the ring.
Paul and Joshua have been involved in what seemed like a playful back and forth in recent weeks, but the latest comments from Alalshikh means that the shock fight may actually be happening after all.
