Most boxing fans will recall the Anthony Joshua vs Andy Ruiz Jr heavyweight title fight a few years back now at this stage.
It represented almost a watershed moment in the sweet science.
It saw Andy Ruiz Jr become the first Mexican heavyweight champion of all time when he against all the expectations going in, he knocked out former champion Anthony Joshua in wild scenes in America.
The hand speed and punching power took Joshua off guard with Ruiz connected and he could not continue on the night in one of the biggest upsets and nights in heavyweight boxing of that time in a few years.
Since then though Joshua has not only being hurt in fights and his very last content only last year was badly knocked out by Daniel Dubois.
It really was a vicious knockout that saw Joshua brutally knocked out in maybe the most barbaric knockout of the 21st century.
It wasn’t just a knockout, knockouts like that, especially at heavyweight, are like a baseball bat scene out of the end of the casino movie.
Joshua’s Chin Is Gone Since Andy Ruiz
They put him down.
Sure, you look at years ago Manny Pacquiao was savagely knocked out by Juan Manuel Marquez and has come back since at nearly 47 to be competing in world title fights again at the moment.
The Dubois knockout however was at heavyweight, they hit much, much different to Juan Manuel Marquez.
It is the equivalent of a car crash.
Erol Spence at welterweight was never the same fighter again after his car crash of his Ferrari some years ago.
Joshua may not ever be the same after that Daniel Dubois car crash.
What Jake Paul Can Learn From Daniel Dubois Knockout Of Anthony Joshua
The Daniel Dubois knockout of Anthony Joshua last year was one of the greatest punches seen in some time, maybe of the entire 21st century when it hit home on Joshua.
In some ways it also represented an arrival of the new younger generation in the division.
Sure, Dubois lost to Usyk, the heavyweight Kingpin this year, but he’ll be back, the win over Joshua was one for the record books.
That was a baseball bat of a knockout from Dubois and ahead of December 19th in Florida, surely there are some things that can be learned
from it by Jake Paul.
Okay, Paul is the underdog.
But Paul will have been hit on the chin by proper professional heavyweight boxers in sparring for this one in the run up this month as well, contrary to what some claim.
He’s sparring the likes of Frank Sanchez, Jared Anderson and Lawrence Okolie for Anthony Joshua later this month who are all trying to take his head clean off his shoulders.
Make no mistake about that.
Paul so far has withstood that in sparring already and has not been knocked out or knocked down by any of them in sparring ahead of the fight, as if it happened, it would be known by now given the nature of digital landscape boxing and all professional sport now exists in.
That is going to weigh in Joshua’s mind as well coming into this, the fact that Paul is getting that level of sparring.
Paul can ultimately learn from the right hand Dubois caught Joshua with last year and take heart from this, and watch for the openings and use the appropriate methods to set this up.
Anthony Joshua has now done an early weigh-in for the Jake Paul fight here.
