Tim Bradley delivers his final verdict on Jake Paul’s performance against Anthony Joshua

Jake Paul was recognized for surviving six rounds against the two-time heavyweight champion Antoine Joshuabut Tim Bradley remains unimpressed and explained the major flaw Paul and his team made during the fight.

Joshua stalked Paul from the start looking for a show-closing shot, but it took five rounds for “AJ” to first reach and drop the American, before sending “The Problem Child” in the sixth and broke his jaw in two places.

Although he was knocked out, some fans suggest that Paul’s stock rose in the loss, as he was able to last as long as he did in the fight.

However, on his YouTube channelTwo-weight world champion Bradley refused to applaud Paul’s efforts, instead feeling that he had shown too much fear and respect towards Joshua in the fight.

“Before the fight, I said ‘they [Paul’s team] are going to run away and that’s the worst thing they can do.” When you face a bully, you have to stand up to them. You have to send a message from the start.

“We talk about fighting for dominance or to get respect – that was the problem, Jake didn’t get respect in the beginning.

“If I was in his corner, I would have said, ‘Look, man, we’re here. You are paid 94 million dollars, we are here to fight, we are not here to survive, we are here to fight. You have to go out there and hit this man as hard as you can in the first round.”

“If you put AJ on his back foot and keep him defensive, AJ isn’t as good a fighter on his back foot as he is when he’s moving forward. AJ is the type of guy that feeds off when I respect him or fear him and AJ felt, because of the experience he has, like ‘this guy fears me.’

“This boy [Paul] He looked like a runaway slave, didn’t he? This boy looked like a fish out of water. This boy looked like a lion was chasing his ass, like a lion and a gazelle. I thought I was watching National Geographic.

Joshua now looks set to face Dutch kickboxer Rico Verhoeven in early 2026, in order to win a match. long-awaited confrontation with Tyson Fury for the second half of the year.