Jake Paul taking legal action over 'astonishing claims' following Netflix fight against Anthony Joshua
Jake Paul is taking legal action over ‘astonishing claims’ that were reportedly made following his fight against Anthony Joshua.
The YouTuber-turned-boxer lost the match against the former heavyweight champion last week, which was broadcast live to the world on Netflix.
Now, according to Paul’s promoter, their lawyers are ‘going after a number of people’.
This comes after Paul faced a devastating KO defeat in the sixth-round of the fight.
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Paul AKA The Problem Child was able to avoid Joshua’s pounces in the opening rounds but was eventually floored by his British opponent at the Kaseya Center in Miami, Florida.
Joshua also broke Paul’s jaw in the process.
However, claims that the fight had been scripted did the rounds on social media and Paul has hit back at accusations with a lawsuit.
According to Nakisa Bidarian, their lawyers are ‘actively going after a number of people’ following claims about the Netflix fight.
Bidarian singled out an ‘online lawyer’ who said Joshua disregarded an agreement not to knock out the 28-year-old American.
Asked if talks of Paul’s fights being fixed will go away after his defeat to Joshua, Bidarian told Ariel Helwani: “No, I don't! Our lawyers are actively going after a number of people. One who claims to be a lawyer himself online.
“I don't remember the name or the handle, but it was something that had like 200,000 likes. And basically, this post said there was an agreement for AJ not to knock out Jake, but AJ disregarded the agreement and decided to not get his payday, but knock out Jake Paul.”
The Most Valuable Promotions chief added: “So, it's pretty astonishing what people say. Your dear friend Lou DeBella... saw him put up a bunch of ridiculous things and even said, 'Nakisa, go ahead and sue me'. But this wasn't a real fight. He was pulling punches. He wasn't giving it his full effort.”
On claims Paul and Joshua had an agreement in place for their fight, Bidarian added: “There has never once in Jake Paul's career been any talk of that sort of anything to do with the fight being anything but a real fight that has exactly the same situation as any professional fight.
“And that's exactly the same thing here for the Anthony Joshua fight. It's just beyond mind-blowing that people would think that Anthony Joshua was on record saying that if he didn't finish him in the first round, that would be disappointing, that it would be a failure.
“The narrative changed as we got closer to fight night and obviously post-fight, and I understand why, but they were pretty adamant it would take max two rounds to knock out Jake Paul.”