Almost a month after the much-talked-about boxing match between Jake Paul and Anthony Joshua, UFC President Dana White has finally broken his silence on it.
On Dec. 19, 2025, on the Kaseya Center in Miami, Florida, Joshua humiliated and simply defeated Paul in a sixth-round victory. While Paul held the upper hand until the fourth round, things took a turn after that, and Joshua began dominating, leading to the YouTuber’s crushing defeat. Recently, talking to Complex News, White claimed that it was “crazy” that the match was even allowed.
“It’s crazy that that fight was even allowed to occur. Crazy,” White said. Despite Paul’s impressive win-loss record, the 28-year-old’s fight against Joshua was a transparent mismatch, just based on their experience. Joshua is a former Olympic gold medalist and former two-time heavyweight champion, while Paul has competed in a complete of 14 boxing matches. Throughout the match, “The Watford Warrior” landed 48 punches but only received 16 in return.
Further speaking within the interview, White opened up about Paul’s future as a boxer. “I mean, I do not know. So long as people keep wanting to pay and watch him fight, I suppose he can keep doing it. It’s just not what I do. what I mean?” White said. “To even comment on it, I feel everybody that was involved in that thing needs to be embarrassed, primary. And number two, it’s just not what I’m into.”
Following the defeat by the hands of Joshua, Paul suffered a broken jaw and is currently recovering and suspended from fighting.
Joe Rogan fears long-term damage after Jake Paul vs. Anthony Joshua fight
Last month, while speaking on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast, UFC commentator Joe Rogan voiced his concern over potential long-term damage to boxers consequently of taking such powerful blows.
“You possibly can only take a lot. And at a certain…like that one which he got from Joshua, say if you have got a punch card, you have got so many punches which you can get in your life, which I consider you do. I consider it is a certain number. That one was like 10 punches. That was quite a lot of concussions in that one punch. That was real damage. If someone’s breaking your jaw in two places, the within your f***ing head, there’s quite a lot of damage occurring in there, too.”