But the snooze button has been smashed. Paul is out there every day peddling the greatest story boxing ever got sold.
Bedroom YouTuber to heavyweight destroyer in four years flat. Private jet workouts. Sold-out arenas. Knocking out UFC legends for fun.
Kids in every country on earth now believe they can skip the freezing gyms and the broken hands and still end up headlining Netflix. Paul is not lying. He is living proof the dream is real if you are loud enough and smart enough and willing to bet on yourself when nobody else will.
Joshua keeps trying to wake everyone up. He talks about hard graft and dark mornings and fifteen years of bleeding in Finchley.
He wants to be the harsh 5 a.m. alarm that drags the dreamers back to reality and tells them the only road is the one he walked. Trouble is the alarm clock is thirty-five years old, running on old batteries, and the snooze button got smashed the night Andy Ruiz landed that left hook.
Jake Paul is selling the dream Joshua wants to be the alarm clock
Paul sells hope by the truckload. Joshua sells cautionary tales nobody wants to buy anymore. One man is giving the world permission to believe anything is possible. The other is begging the world to remember nothing comes easy. Guess which message travels faster in 2025.
December 19th in Florida is not a fight. It is a sales pitch with fists. Paul is closing the biggest deal of his life. Joshua is trying to give the longest lecture in history. The kids watching on Netflix already made their choice. They want the dream, not the sermon. They want the guy who turned clout into knockouts, not the guy who turned Olympic gold into four losses and a forced smile.
Joshua keeps saying he is going to wake Paul up. He said the same before Ngannou and needed a gift knockdown to stay upright. He said the same before Dubois and woke up on the canvas himself. The alarm clock has been ringing for years and nobody is hitting stop. They are just turning the volume down and buying what Paul is selling instead.
Paul does not need to knock Joshua out cold to win. He just needs to go ten rounds, stay standing, and let the replay do the rest. The dream stays alive. The alarm clock gets thrown in the bin. One man walks out of Florida richer and more famous than ever. The other walks out proving the hard way is now the dead way.
The dream is twenty-eight and still accelerating. The alarm clock is thirty-five and running on fumes. On December 19th the kids get to choose which one they set for tomorrow. My money says they keep dreaming and let Joshua sleep.
Paul is also selling infamy ahead of the Joshua fight, he has achieved that well.
