Joe Rogan is worried that Jake Paul has bitten off more than he can chew with Anthony Joshua.
After Gervonta Davis got himself into more legal trouble, Paul was left scrambling for a new opponent to fill an end-of-year fight slot on Netflix. The streaming giant demanded a big opponent, and Paul may have gone too big — physically — with Olympic medalist and former multi-org heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua.
AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisement“Realistically, it’s one of the craziest propositions of all time,” Joe Rogan said on a recent episode of his No.1 podcast. “You take a guy who just had a boxing match that looked like a sparring match with a 58-year-old Mike Tyson, and then you’re gonna fight one of the absolute scariest knockout artists in the heavyweight division?”
“I’ll watch,” he added. “I’m definitely gonna watch. So he’s got me there.”
But Joe also watched Joshua knock out Francis Ngannou.
“[He’s] one of the scariest f–king heavyweights alive,” Rogan said. “He’s gonna be terrifying, and he’s gonna have a lot to prove. He’s gonna be very angry that Jake Paul wants to fight him.”
AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisement“That right hand, if it hits you, you are f–ked. This is a giant, Olympic gold medalist heavyweight. One-punch nuclear power. He’s a specialist at putting knuckles through your f–king brain, and that’s what he’s gonna try to do to Jake Paul.”
Team Paul added a stipulation into the contract that Joshua couldn’t weigh more than 245 pounds on fight night. Joe Rogan doesn’t think that will help.
“Listen, kids, it ain’t gonna matter,” Rogan said. “There’s not a chance that Anthony Joshua is not going to just lose the weight beforehand. He’s not gonna come in drained. What he’s going to do is just do extra cardio, and that’s just gonna make him more dangerous. He’s gonna be terrifying.”
AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementPaul vs. Joshua goes down December 19th on Netflix, and Rogan will definitely be tuning in to witness Jake’s funeral.
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