Jake Paul might need made his way into Anthony Joshua’s head just in time for fight night, based on one former heavyweight champion.
David Haye has experience moving up from cruiserweight to heavyweight and beating the division’s top guns. Albeit, he had a powerful 80-fight or more amateur profession heading into the professionals and was an elite competitor, he was similarly undersized to Paul.
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And he reckons that Friday night’s final face-off, by which Joshua got physical with Paul and claimed he would ‘f— him up’, was uncharacteristic of the two-time champion. All of it means, Haye says, that the YouTuber has finally rattled his rival.
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Jake Paul is ‘in Anthony Joshua’s head’ after final face-off
David Haye had been around Anthony Joshua for years, and knows exactly how the normally polite Brit tends to act. He spoke on the published after the very fact about how he can tell Jake Paul has irked his rival – whether that’s an excellent thing or not.
“No more ‘Mister Nice Guy’,” Haye insisted. “Having seen AJ that aggressive, he did a throat-slashing gesture right at the tip, that’s the other of the energy Anthony Joshua brings to the table – he’s a really type of corporate guy.
“He won an Olympic gold medal, he’s very squeaky clean. So such a energy? He means business, he’s coming to bring the ruckus, he is just not fooling around.”
Whether or not it is sensible to get in an opponent’s head using tactics like Paul’s stays to be seen, and fans will discover tonight when the pair clash on Netflix. In his final words, promoter Eddie Hearn pleaded with the YouTuber to ‘stay protected’.
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