"Jake Paul's mouth opened wide, and his eyes became huge glazed saucers, as he sank to the canvas in shock and awe after a pulverising right hand from Anthony Joshua finally ended the circus in Miami late on Friday night. It looked as if Paul was trying to say Wow! as the severity of impact registered in his scrambled brain."
"Joshua, it should be stressed, was not impressive amid the bedlam. After his hollow victory he made a throat-slitting gesture that hinted at a clinical and deadly execution when, in reality, Joshua had cut a frustrated figure for most of the contest. Rather than glowering with menace, or exhibiting an iron certainty, Joshua had seemed tentative and crude for nearly five rounds. He struggled to catch Paul and landed under a third of his blows missing 98 of the 146 punches he threw."
Anthony Joshua ended the fight with a pulverising right hand that broke Jake Paul's jaw in two places and left Paul unable to rise in the sixth round. Paul sank to the canvas, eyes wide and stunned, with blood leaking from his mouth and a numbing throb through his jaw. Paul had been knocked down four times in the contest and had relied on slipping and clinging as his conditioning faltered. Joshua, an Olympic gold medallist and former world heavyweight champion, struggled for most of the fight, landing less than a third of his punches and missing 98 of 146, before applying a brutal finish.
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