A damaged jaw appears to be no downside for Jake Paul.
The YouTuber-turned-boxer, who misplaced by knockout for the primary time in his younger boxing profession in a highly-anticipated matchup with Anthony Joshua on Friday, December 19, suffered a damaged jaw in not one however two locations through the match at Kaseya Heart in Miami.
Paul is within the hospital for his accidents, however he hasn’t stopped him from repeatedly posting on social media.
In a video posted through Instagram, Paul, 28, is seen laying in a hospital mattress together with his brother, Logan, standing subsequent to him.
“Damaged jaw guys thanks for all of the assist I’m okay,” the caption learn, with a thumbs up emoji.
He additionally posted an X-ray of his damaged jaw, displaying that there have been truly two breaks suffered through the knockout punch by Joshua. He additionally gave a shoutout to his doubtlessly latest opponent, Canelo Alvarez, who he mentioned he’s preventing in simply over every week and a half.
“Double damaged jaw,” Paul wrote within the photograph caption. “Give me Canelo in 10 days.”
Paul claimed again in November to have scheduled a combat with Alvarez, however that combat fell by way of and the 2 didn’t face off within the ring.
Proper after the match on Friday, Paul posted a video from the ring, displaying his damaged jaw shut up the place you’ll be able to see the facet of his mouth bashed in. Regardless of the horrendous scene, Paul didn’t appear to be nervous in regards to the damage.
“It’s tremendous, proper?” he wrote on the video.
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He laughed off the break in a separate publish, displaying a photograph of himself with a bloody tongue and a screenshot of Joshua’s proper hook onto his jaw with the caption: “Lol xD.”
Friday’s match marked simply the second lack of Paul’s boxing profession, and regardless of ending the night on the tarp, Paul appeared in good spirits after the combat.
“I really feel good. That was enjoyable. I like this sport,” he mentioned, per a number of media experiences. “I received my ass beat, however that’s what this sport is about.
He continued, “Man, I’ve already received in each single means in life. This sport has helped me in each single means … I feel my jaw is damaged, by the way in which.”
Joshua, 32, praised Paul in his post-match interview.
“Jake Paul did rather well and he deserves his props. It takes an actual man to do this and he deserves respect for attempting and attempting and attempting,” Joshua mentioned. “It takes an actual man to do this. We’ve got to provide Jake Paul respect.”
Joshua added, “He got here up in opposition to an actual fighter tonight.”
The previous two-time unified WBO, IBF, and WBA heavyweight champion got here into the bout with a big dimension benefit over Paul, standing at a whopping 6-foot-6 and weighs 252 kilos, in comparison with Paul who’s 6-foot-1, 227 kilos.
Their matchup went six rounds earlier than Joshua’s deciding blow: a proper hook that landed flush on Paul’s jaw, sending him to the mat.
Simply earlier than the knockout blow, Paul tried to taunt Joshua by protruding his tongue. Joshua had the ultimate phrase after that.
