Jake Paul and Anthony Joshua reportedly secured a significant financial gain from their fight on a recent Friday evening (December 19).
The two competed against each other at the Kaseya Center in Miami, where Joshua emerged victorious over the YouTuber-turned-boxer.
The match continued for six, three-minute rounds before Joshua clinched the win, with Paul being knocked out after several knockdowns.
After the bout, Paul revealed he had a ‘double broken jaw’, posting an X-ray image on X hours later.
Joshua, despite his win, labeled the fight as ‘not his best’ performance.
“It wasn’t the best performance. It wasn’t the best,” Joshua remarked. “The end goal was to get Jake Paul, pin him down and hurt him. That has been the request leading up. That was on my mind.
“It took a bit longer than expected, but the right hand finally found the destination. Jake Paul – he’s done really well tonight. I want to give him his props.
“He got up time and time again. It takes a real man to do that.”
Despite the outcome, the two fighters are said to have earned a substantial amount from the event.
While the exact figures haven’t been officially confirmed, early reports indicated the fighters would share a pot of approximately $186 million.
However, Paul recently tweeted a correction, stating the amount was significantly higher: “Stop asking me. $267 Million.”
This would imply that both individuals received over $130 million each. Quite a substantial sum.
Many critics expressed surprise at Paul’s ability to endure six rounds against Joshua, though Paul maintained he could have continued if he had ‘better cardio’.
“I’m not surprised, I just got tired,” he explained.
“It was just so much handling his weight. If I had better cardio I could have maybe kept on fighting. But he did amazing and he hits really hard.”
After the fight, Joshua seized the moment to call out Tyson Fury, declaring to Netflix: “I can’t wait to go into 2026. If Tyson Fury is as serious as he thinks he is, and he wants to put down his Twitter fingers and put on his gloves, and come and fight one of the realest fighters out, there then I’ll take on the challenge.
“Step in the ring with me next if you’re a real bad boy.
“Don’t do all that talking, ‘AJ is this, AJ is that’, let’s see you in the ring and talk with your fists.”