Jake Paul vs Anthony Joshua: Who's in the most danger? - The Sports Agents
The News Agents
Global
4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Two-time heavyweight world champion Anthony Joshua, is taking on YouTuber-turned-professional boxer Jake Paul. Like it or not they’re two of the biggest names in boxing - and we’ll get into why that’s problematic...
So why is the star of the London 2012 Olympics, who beat Wladimir Klitschko, fighting an influencer? Do fight fans believe it's not been scripted and what's actually more at risk - Paul's chin or AJ's reputation?
Gabby & Mark sit down with Light-Heavyweight prospect and Olympic silver medallist Ben Whittaker - a showman in and out of the ring at a time when the sport is crying out for its next homegrown superstar.
Plus we pick the best bits of The Sports Agents this week, from reminiscing about an extraordinary year in sport with Clare Balding ahead of SPOTY, to despairing at the Ashes with former England cricketer Darren Gough.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:05.8 | Today, two-time heavyweight world champion Anthony Joshua is taking on |
| 0:09.9 | YouTuber turned professional boxer, Jake Paul. |
| 0:14.1 | Like it or not, they're two. The biggest names in boxing and we'll get into why that |
| 0:17.5 | may be problematic. This is a bit like if Mark decided to challenge me to a |
| 0:22.7 | horse riding race maybe, or if I went head to head with Mark on mastermind on the topic of |
| 0:27.7 | Chicago Bears. I don't know why horse riding was chosen. No, I don't know why horse riding was. I would |
| 0:33.4 | prefer it to have been gymnastics, but, you know, I think I could take you on good racing as well. |
| 0:55.5 | Mind you, having watched you on the wheel, I think I could win Mastermind on any subject. Hang on, what did I get wrong? At least you got asked the question. When I was on the wheel, I just got spun round for three hours. I literally barked, barked on mine, that was it. We had to do an impression of an animal you'd find on a farm. A barked. That was it. Three hours I was there. Why is the sport in a place where |
| 1:03.0 | the start of the London 2012 Olympics who beat Vladimir Klitsko is fighting an influencer? |
| 1:08.0 | After fighting a 60-year-old Mike Tyson, can boxing get much weirder or more dangerous? |
| 1:13.2 | Do fans have any faith in what they're watching anymore? |
| 1:15.5 | Do they care? |
| 1:16.0 | And is UK boxing just crying out for a genuine superstar? |
| 1:19.4 | Welcome to the Sports Agents. |
| 1:30.6 | The Sports Agents With Gabby Logan and Mark Chapman |
| 1:33.0 | Ben Whitaker, welcome to the sports agents. |
| 1:38.0 | We want to talk about you, your career and where you're going. |
| 1:41.3 | But when people are listening to this right now, |
| 1:45.6 | it may have already happened, the AJ Jake Paul fight. They may be listening to this and the build-up to that. So I want |
| 1:51.7 | to get stuck into your thoughts on this and why we've got to this position that this fight is even |
| 1:58.5 | needed. What were your first thoughts? |
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