Part of the reason why tens of millions of people tuned into Netflix to watch Jake Paul vs. Anthony Joshua was the see Paul get knocked out. He wasn’t knocked unconscious, but he was knocked down four times and ended up with a broken jaw from the fight-ending sequence.
Former UFC fighter-turned-analyst Paul Felder thought the Influencer-turned-boxer getting stopped by the former two-time heavyweight champion was ‘sweet justice.’
“I got nervous. I’ll say that, when I saw the size of the ring. I started watching the event, and I’m like, oh, God, this is strategic that it’s the biggest boxing ring that you could possibly use for him to be able to run around.
“Then when he started all the takedown stuff and faking like he got hit in the nuts even though he laid on Anthony Joshua’s knee and was acting like he got punched in the balls and just the whole fiasco. I was like, he’s not going to give him an opportunity to even start boxing. He’s just going to run the whole time. I was pretty pissed off,” Felder said on the Believe You Me Podcast.
“As he started to slow down, I was like, okay, thank God. And I think as soon as Joshua got hit with one of his best punches and he didn’t even budge and countered right back, I think that was the beginning of the end. And it was. It was sweet justice.”
Felder gave Paul props for taking the fight and accepting the loss, but also pointed out that most people would go in there for $92 million. He commended the commentating team for not holding back with criticism of Paul’s tactics.
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“It was frustrating as hell. And I do like the commentators also didn’t hold back on him. You know, this is his show basically and they were out there going, ‘This is sh*t.’ Like, you can’t go out there and just run away the whole time and not engage,” said Felder.
“Who cares if you’re fighting the best guys if you’re not going to actually box? As he got tired, he was then forced to have to box him and we saw what happened as soon as that. As soon as he slowed down and he lined up that right hand, it was over. But I was still worried that it was going to go to a decision. And if it did, I was ready to throw something at my TV.”
