"Anthony Joshua did what he was meant to do on Friday night in Miami: he lay waste to Jake Paul's bravest and most controversial experiment in boxing with a destructive victory that felt less like a sporting result than the restoration of sanity. In their scheduled eight-round heavyweight bout at the Kaseya Center, streamed globally to Netflix's roughly 300 million subscribers, the former twice unified heavyweight champion scored four knockdowns before stopping"
"The second followed a similar pattern. Joshua swung and missed early as Paul continued to run, using lateral movement to frustrate the bigger man. Joshua began to cut off the ring more effectively, but Paul clinched whenever distance closed, drawing louder boos from the near-capacity crowd. A brief clash of heads halted momentum, and though Joshua hinted at body work, he continued to headhunt. It was a round defined by inertia: Joshua doing little, Paul doing less."
Anthony Joshua scored four knockdowns and stopped Jake Paul in the sixth round of an eight-round heavyweight bout at the Kaseya Center in Miami. The fight was streamed globally to Netflix's roughly 300 million subscribers and followed weeks of safety concerns and moral debate. Joshua controlled the centre of the ring while Paul circled and used lateral movement and clinches to frustrate him. Early rounds were low-volume and punctuated by boos, with a brief clash of heads halting momentum. Joshua increasingly cut off the ring and pursued headhunting and power shots until the stoppage.
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