Pressing forward, Lamont isn’t looking to relive that situation in the likely event the men rematch on August 16, like multiple reports say they will … despite Davis apparently not having yet signed the contract.
Jake Paul notched his 12th victory last night (Sat., June 29, 2025), earning a unanimous decision over Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California (results here).
With Chavez Jr.’s name added to his resume, Paul is eyeing the future. The YouTuber-turned-professional boxer aims to become a world champion but remains drawn to mega-money matchups.
“El Gallo” is doubling down on a clash with former WBA, IBF, WBO, and IBO heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua, predicting it will happen next year.
“I’m definitely not a heavyweight, but I’m still going to take the challenge,” Paul said during the Paul vs. Chavez Jr. post-fight press conference. “You look at Deontay Wilder, he was beating these guys weighing 215 pounds. Granted, he’s 6-foot-6 or something, but anything is possible. I like the challenge. That’s the criticism. ‘Fight someone in their prime who is a beast!’
“I think people just want to see me lose,” Paul added. “That’s really the message behind it all. Anthony Joshua is an insane fight, but I want that challenge. We’ve been DMing back and forth, he wants to make it happen, he called me up, and it’s looking very likely for next year.”
A Paul vs. Joshua showdown would be a blockbuster, though it seems far-fetched. Then again, who predicted a bout with Mike Tyson?
Paul rides a six-fight win streak, with victories over Tyson, Mike Perry, and Nate Diaz, while Joshua reels from a knockout loss to Daniel Dubois (watch highlights).
Jake Paul wants the “challenge” of fighting Anthony Joshua.
The YouTuber-turned-boxer defeated former middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr by unanimous decision on Saturday night (28.06.25), and Jake is now looking to face Joshua, a London 2012 gold medallist and the former heavyweight world champion.
Speaking at his post-fight press conference, Jake said: “I’m definitely not a heavyweight, but I’m still gonna take the challenge. You look at Deontay Wilder; he was beating these guys weighing 215 pounds, he’s like 6ft 6in or something, but anything is possible.
“Anthony Joshua is an insane fight, but I want that challenge.”
Jake and Joshua have already discussed the possibility of fighting each other in 2026.
Jake said: “We’ve been DM-ing back and forth. He wants to make it happen. He called me up and it’s looking very likely for next year.”
Despite this, Chavez Jr has rubbished the idea that Jake could beat Joshua or any other world champion.
He said post-fight: “He’s strong, a good boxer [for] the first three, four rounds. After that, I felt he was tired. I don’t think he’s ready for the champions, but he’s a good fighter.”
Meanwhile, Jake recently hit back at his critics, insisting that he’s already fought lots of credible opponents in his boxing career.
The 28-year-old star accused his critics of “idiotic low-level thinking”.
The former Bizaardvark star – who defeated former world champion Mike Tyson back in November – told Extra: “I love this criticism because it just shows how daft people are. It’s like, on one hand they’ll call Anderson Silva one of the greatest fighters of all time, and then they’ll say these things and completely discredit Anderson Silva, discredit Tyron Woodley, a multiple-time UFC champion. You know, the list goes on and on with prominent names that I’ve beat.
“Mike Perry, they called the kind of violence, he was in his prime, bare-knuckle God, said he was gonna starch me — knocked him out.
“It again shows the stupidity of people and that they’ll think one thing going into a fight and then when I prove them wrong, they just fall back on their regular idiotic low-level thinking ways.”
British-Nigerian boxing star Anthony Joshua has issued a warning to American YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul following a taunt about his previous knockout defeats, PUNCH Sports Extra reports.
Paul, 28, revealed in a recent interview with The Sun that he and the former two-time heavyweight champion had been exchanging private messages earlier this year, during which he mocked Joshua over his knockout losses. However, the trolling prompted a stern response from the 35-year-old.
According to Paul, the last message he received from Joshua carried a clear and menacing tone.
“He said, ‘I can’t wait to fight. You’re gonna be fighting for your life and you’ll know the feeling that I’ve gone through.’ Or something like that,” Paul told SunSport, admitting it was the last time he heard from Joshua.
The brewing tension has fuelled speculation about a possible future clash between both men, with Paul expressing his desire to face Joshua in front of a hostile British crowd.
“My first fight was in front of an English crowd and it’s rowdy,” Paul said.
“I love walking into the lions’ den and so me versus Anthony Joshua, 100,000 people chanting ‘f*** Jake Paul’ would be pretty fun for me.”
Joshua, who has not fought since suffering a knockout defeat to fellow Brit Daniel Dubois in September, is currently recovering from elbow surgery.
Despite his recent inactivity, he remains a formidable presence in the heavyweight scene.
Paul, meanwhile, continues to blur the lines between entertainment and elite boxing. His controversial exhibition bout against boxing legend Mike Tyson was watched by over 100 million viewers on Netflix.
Paul won the eight-round fight, though it drew widespread criticism due to Tyson’s age.
As he returned to the ring on Sunday, beating former middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr in a dominant points victory, Paul remains focused on climbing the ranks.
“I think it’s back to the drawing board after this, especially depending on what the WBC and WBA rank me after I win,” he said.
“If they rank me in the position where I can go for a world championship, then we’re gonna try and get that done.”
Terence Crawford couldn’t care less what Canelo Alvarez or any of his detractors doubt about his resume.
Alvarez questioned the greatness of even the best fighters Crawford defeated Friday during the last of three press conferences to promote their highly anticipated super middleweight showdown Sept. 13 at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas.
Crawford responded by stating Alvarez is the only great fighter he is concerned about beating.
He also analyzed Alvarez’s logic when the undisputed 168-pound champion promised that Crawford (41-0, 31 KOs) will learn what it’s like when “a good fighter” moves up in weight and realizes his opponent is “a great fighter.”
“So, that means you’re a good fighter and [Dmitry] Bivol is a great fighter, right?,” Crawford asked before a crowd full of Alvarez fans at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. “Right? Is you a good fighter? Or is you a great fighter? Let me know.”
Alvarez adamantly responded, “I’m a great fighter.”
Crawford countered by asking, “So, you got your ass whupped by a good fighter, right?”
Russia’s Bivol beat Alvarez convincingly when he moved up to light heavyweight for the second time in May 2022.
Mexico’s Alvarez (63-2-2, 39 KOs) stopped Sergey Kovalev to win the WBO light heavyweight title in his debut at 175 pounds in November 2019 in Las Vegas. He wasn’t successful when he battled Bivol, who seemingly deserved a wider win on the cards than the 115-113 scores submitted by judges Tim Cheatham, Dave Moretti and Steve Weisfeld at T-Mobile Arena.
“Every time you stepped up, you lost, great fighter,” Crawford said.
The lone losses for Alvarez are to Bivol, who went on to become undisputed light heavyweight champion, by unanimous decision, and a majority decision to undefeated Floyd Mayweather in September 2013.
The four-weight world champion went 2-0-1 against Gennadiy Golovkin, but the outcome of their first fight in September 2017 — a split draw — has been a source of great debate.
Alvarez realizes how it feels to prepare for fights of this magnitude, though, as boxing’s biggest star in the United States.
“I been in his situation before, and I know,” he said. “It’s gonna be a good fight. Believe me, it’s gonna be a good fight. I’m gonna bring my best. I know he’s a good fighter, but this is just different. You’ll see what happen when a good fighter jump up and his opponent is a great fighter. So, you gonna find out September 13th.”
Crawford, 37, can become a world champion in a fifth division and an unprecedented undisputed champion in a third weight class if the Omaha, Nebraska, native pulls off a slight upset over Alvarez, who will turn 35 next month.
“I don’t care about nobody else,” Crawford said. “So, when I beat you is you gonna be a nobody? When I stomp a mudhole in your ass, is you gonna be a nobody? You gonna be just like everybody else. Watch. Watch. The same [expletive] that everybody else been saying since I moved to 147, I ain’t fought nobody. Every last one of ‘em, stomp a mudhole in they ass and he gonna be next. Watch.”
It’s No. 3 fighter on The Ring’s pound-for-pound list against Alvarez, who is eighth. Netflix will stream their 12-round, 168-pound title bout worldwide to a subscriber base that exceeds 300 million.
DraftKings considers Alvarez (minus-190) a slight favorite to defeat Crawford (plus-150). Alvarez holds The Ring, IBF, WBA, WBC and WBO 168-pound crowns.
Jake Paul has revealed that two-time heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua is at the top of his boxing hit-list and believes a showdown between the pair will take place next year.
The social media star turned professional boxer kept his world title dreams alive with a routine success over former WBC middleweight king Julio Cesar Chavez Jr in California overnight.
Despite promising to end the American’s career, Chavez Jr struggled to gain any real foothold on proceedings, astonishingly landing just three punches during the opening nine minutes of action.
His refusal to engage with Paul culminated in a straightforward unanimous points success for the 28-year-old, who wasted no time in sounding out potential opponents in the immediate aftermath of his victory.
WBC cruiserweight supremo Badou Jack was one of several fighters mentioned by Paul as he reeled off his wish list on the back of a 12th professional career win, but it was Joshua’s whose name appeared to excite him the most.
“Give me any of them, they can all have it,” he told the media.
Anthony Joshua is an insane fight, but I want that challenge – I’m definitely not a heavyweight, but I’m still gonna take the challenge!
– Jake Paul (DAZN)
“You look at Deontay Wilder; he was beating these guys weighing just 215 pounds… Joshua is like 6ft 6ins or something, but anything is possible.
“We’ve been DM-ing (messaging) back and forth. He wants to make it happen. He called me up and it’s looking very likely for next year.”
Paul’s comprehensive win over Chavez Jr was clear to see in the damning post-fight punch statistics.
The 39-year-old Mexican, who has been advised to retire by his famed fighting father Julio Cesar Chavez Sr, landed less than half the number of punches of his opponent.
Incredibly, he failed to lay a single glove on the Cleveland native in the first round, and ended the showdown with just 61 shots hitting the desired target – a statistic which has irked ‘The Problem Child’s’ brother, Logan Paul.
“I feel great. I think he did so well,” the WWE star told DAZN.
“It’s really hard to fight a guy who like doesn’t want to fight and it’s annoying for the fans as well.
“We were halfway through the fight and the dude had thrown like 20 punches so it’s hard but it is what it is – I thought he boxed great.
“Jake has gone out there and comprehensively beaten a former world champion, so who knows what is next! He’s happy to get the win and excited to get the next guy.”
Jake Paul says he’s finally going to fight the kind of opponent his critics want to see him face. Next year.
On Saturday, Paul added another win to his boxing résumé, taking a unanimous decision over former WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. in their cruiserweight fight in Anaheim, Calif. It was another underwhelming performance from Paul, who was visibly larger than the 39-year-old Chavez, and only continued the criticism Paul has faced for hand-picking undersized and past-their-prime opponents. But for Paul, this win was a pivotal moment in his career: a turning point for him towards a more serious boxing run.
“I don’t even think I was a fighter then,” Paul said in his post-fight press conference when asked about his loss to Tommy Fury in comparison to his performance on Saturday. “That was two years, two-and-a-half years into the sport, and I didn’t know what I was doing. I didn’t have the right team around me, the proper team around me, the proper conditioning. My lifestyle outside of the ring was still like a YouTube, celebrity, actor, whatever I was at the time. I wasn’t fully focused on boxing.
Jake Paul says former champion Anthony Joshua wants to fight him next year
Not long after the sweat had dried following Jake Paul’s victory over Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., he disclosed he’s in talks to fight another former champion: Anthony Joshua, who held the unified heavyweight belts in 2016 and 2021.
“Anthony Joshua is an insane fight, but I want that challenge,” Paul said at a post-fight news conference Saturday, June 28. “We’ve been DM’ing back and forth. He wants to make it happen. He called me up and it’s looking very likely for next year.”
In his last fight, Joshua (28-4, 25 KOs) suffered a devastating fifth-round knockout loss to Daniel Dubois. But at 6-6, he would have a five-inch height advantage over Paul (12-1, 7 KOs) along with significantly more experience.
“I like the challenge,” Paul said. “That’s the criticism, people will say, ‘Fight someone in their prime who’s a beast.’ I think people just really want to see me lose. That’s really what the message is behind it all.”
Jake Paul lists other options for next fight
Even though Paul’s negotiations with Canelo Alvarez unraveled in February, he said a fight between the two still could materialize.
“No, he’s not out of the picture,” said Paul, who added that it could hinge on Paul winning a cruiserweight world title. That would lure Alvarez into the ring because it would give him a chance to become a five-weight champion, Paul speculated.
“I think that would be what interests him, and that’s the plan,” Paul said.
Other potential future opponents, Paul said, include WBC cruiserweight champion Badou Jack, WBA lightweight champion Gervonta Davis and Tommy Fury, the only boxer to beat Paul. Fury won that eight-round fight by unanimous decision in 2023.
“I don’t even think I was a fighter then,” Paul said. “That was like 2 1/2 years into the sport, and I didn’t know what I was doing. I didn’t have the proper team around me. I didn’t have conditioning. My lifestyle outside of the ring was still that of a YouTuber, celebrity, actor, whatever I was at that point in time.
“So I wasn’t fully focused on boxing. Like I said, chapter one is done tonight, and now we’re moving into chapter two. I’m just getting warmed up in the sport. People hold the Tommy Fury thing against me, but what now? I just beat a former world champion, and I’m coming to avenge that loss as well with Tommy.”
YouTuber turned boxer Jake Paul has improved his professional fight record to 12-1 and turned his attentions back to British heavyweight Anthony Joshua.
Paul defeated former WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr by unanimous decision in Southern California on Saturday.
The 28-year-old’s only loss in the ring was seven fights and more than two years ago against Tommy Fury in Saudi Arabia.
Despite a fiercely partisan crowd in favour of his opponent, Paul tore out of his corner early on and fought off a late flurry to hold on to the win.
After seeing off Chavez, Paul teased imminent confirmation of a highly anticipated transatlantic slobberknocker.
Joshua would have a height and weight advantage over a younger opponent but Paul isn’t cowed by the prospect of a pummelling.
“I’m definitely not a heavyweight, but I’m still gonna take the challenge,” he told the media.
“You look at Deontay Wilder; he was beating these guys weighing 215 pounds, [Joshua is] like 6ft 6in or something, but anything is possible.
“Anthony Joshua is an insane fight, but I want that challenge.”
Joshua, 35, has claimed 25 of his 28 professional wins by knockout and has been beaten four times.
One of those losses was a fifth-round knockout by Daniel Dubois in his last fight in September 2024. Dubois walked away as the IBF heavyweight champion having successfully defended the belt he was given after it was vacated by Oleksandr Usyk.
Chavez suggested after Saturday’s fight that Paul started strong but tired, saying that the Cleveland-born boxer isn’t ready to step up to the next level against champions like Joshua.
Nevertheless, the wheels are turning and Paul vs Joshua appears to be in the works for 2026.
“We’ve been DM-ing back and forth. He wants to make it happen. He called me up and it’s looking very likely for next year,” Paul revealed in Anaheim on Saturday.
Since turning pro in 2020, Paul has won seven fights by knockout.
Last November, he won by decision against 58-year-old Mike Tyson in a massively hyped fight in Arlington, Texas.
Joshua’s last win came in March 2024 against Francis Ngannou, who he beat by knockout in the second round in Riyadh.
Gervonta Davis Called Out By Hall Of Fame Legend Who Hasn’t Fought In Years: “It’s A Dream Fight”
Gervonta Davis has been targeted for a cross-generational super-fight.
The big puncher from Baltimore commands some of the biggest audiences in the sport, with his 2023 fight against Ryan Garcia garnering more than 1.2 million pay-per-view buys for Showtime and generating a $22.8 million gate at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
It’s proven, then, that with the right dance partner, ‘Tank’ Davis can do incredible numbers. There are not many bigger than Filipino fighting legend, Manny Pacquiao, who makes a controversial ring return in July.
The 46-year-old’s promoter, Sean Gibbons, told World Boxing News that Davis was on the hit list for the fight.
“It took a roundabout way, but we got here .We would have liked Conor Benn and would have liked Gervonta Davis, but Manny Pacquiao had one thing in mind.”
That thing is breaking his own record as the oldest welterweight world champion in history, which he has the chance to do against WBC Champion Mario Barrios.
Gibbons said that they will then target Pacquiao’s ‘dream fight’ with ‘Tank.’
“When he beats Mario Barrios, line them up. His dream fight is Gervonta Davis. He loves that fight. He tried to get that fight for a couple of years. Gervonta kept talking about how he didn’t want to fight him at 145. Then he goes and gets smoked by Lamont Roach. So Manny Pacquiao can get this belt, and it’s going to be a wonderful ride out.”
Meanwhile, Davis is set to announce a rematch with Lamont Roach Jr after a controversial draw last time out. He has also been in talks for a sideshow exhibition bout against Jake Paul, leading many to think that any goal of cementing himself as one of the best pound-for-pound fighters in the world may be overtaken by a desire to make as much money as possible.