December 21, 2025 • 11 mins
Daniel Cormier IS BACK with his INSTANT REACTION to Anthony Joshua KNOCKING OUT Jake Paul in one of the craziest boxing matchups. Paul survived five rounds, and in the sixth round Joshua landed an INCREDIBLE right hand. DC gives his take on the main event of the night, and his take on what's next for both Anthony Joshua and Jake Paul. Plus, Cormier discusses if this means the end of Paul in the ring, or if this is proof he can continue to make a career out of boxing professionally. DC also gives his flowers to Jake for lasting as long as he did in the fight. #Volume
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Speaker 2 (01:48):
Time for reaction.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
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Speaker 2 (01:57):
That will not slow you down? All right, man.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
So some people believe in fairy tales. Whoever believed that
Jake Paul was gonna win? That was an absolute fairy tale.
I've got a friend in a group message that said
I just put twenty dollars on Jake Paul to win.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
I was like, bro, he just wasted your money.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
There was never a world in which Jake Paul was
going to beat Anthony Joshuall was always a matter of
how the fight would end. So I watched all the
pundits talking about the fight. Even Razindo, my boxing coach,
I was like, does Anthony Joshua represent boxing? Everybody from
that world felt like Anthony Josquell was representing boxing, and
(02:40):
as the fight started to go on, first off, he
was representing boxing, so they wanted him to get the
job done all right, First and foremost, you can't lose
to a guy that's perceived to be a YouTuber, even
though today Jake Paul is more boxer than YouTuber. I've
said this time and time again. When you have resources,
when you can spend a million dollars a year on
(03:02):
training camps, housing, food, coaches, this is not recreational anymore.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
He's a boxer, He's just not a boxer at that level.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
I ran into his brother in New York City and
I said to Logan, what parameters are in place? Logan,
what safeguards do they have to make sure that Anthony
Joshua doesn't hurt your brother? He said, there are no
he goes, They're gonna just straight fight. So in that regard,
you gotta give credit to Jake Paul. He fought Anthony Joshua.
(03:38):
I swear to god, I thought it was a gimmick
in the beginning. I thought that's why he was calling
guys out like myself, Tyrenwood and Si Silva. And then
he lost to Tommy Fury. I was like, well, that's
the last time we gonna fight a boxer. But dude,
dude's got balls. Dude's got balls to standing there with
aj who had been off, so his chin is refreshed,
he's ready to fight. The fight starts, Joshua cannot catch
(04:04):
up to Jake. You can see very clearly that the
game plan was to Paul to kind of run and
frustrate Anthony Joshua over the course of his fight, and
through the first few rounds it was working.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Hell.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
In the first round, neither one of them landed a
damn punch. And that's the problem with boxing. The problem
with boxing is you can get these fights. Got have
all this hype, and nothing happens. In MMA. Ninety eighty
percent of the time there's action, fight starts, there's not
(04:38):
much action. The announcers even said they thought Jake might
have won the first round because he landed one punch.
I'm thinking to us, though, this is a nightmare. The
referee is completely lost. Jake is out there shooting double
legs on Aj. The ref looked like he was gonna
take a point. Never took a point. You could just
see Paul getting tired. I also saw the referee gave
(05:01):
him a break for a low blow when Jake shot
a double and all AJ did was stuff his head.
Nothing landed. Then when it showed it, what landed was
he pulled Joshua on top of it. His knee hit
him in the stumble. Hey, it was exactly what you
thought it was going to be at points, but it
was even better as the fight went on, because you
saw Joshua starting to kind of get.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Off on him. Pause.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
So Anthony, Joshua is fight trying to find him. As
the fight goes alonger all those big actions, the shots,
the big overhand rights, all those things are starting to
fatigue Paul. So Joshua keeps stalking, keep stalking. I always say,
you can intimidate someone with your posture. You can make
(05:46):
yourself bigger than you actually are. And that's what Joshua did.
Then he starts throwing the jab, and he starts throwing
the jab, and he starts throwing the jab. Dude, by
the fifth round, he knocked him down twice. I thought
the fight was gonna be over because he was gonna
knock him again, body shots putting him down, put Paul
down twice. Hats off to Jake. He kept trying to fight.
(06:07):
He kept getting up when he could have quit on himself.
At one point he started limping. It looked like that
was the moment he was gonna throw in the towel,
say you know what, I'm done, I'm injured, I'm hurt.
I don't want to do that. But hats off to him.
He got up and he kept fighting. We get to
the sixth round.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
And you can just tell that it's over. There are
a lot of people that said, Jake, Paul can't go
forward with you.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Joshua was very smart and saying, you gotta respect any fighter.
There were a few times where Jake actually landed those
big overhand rights that he put Tyron Woodley down with.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
But Joshua just ate that.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
And I think when Anthony saw he could take those
punches and they could really do no damage to him,
it even boosted his confidence more because then he got
even more reckless in his approach to getting after Paul.
I got a video Rodrigo and video just watching the fight,
so you got my innswery, my reaction immediately after the fight.
(06:59):
You'll see that at the end of the video. But
in the sixth round, you could just tell that this
fight was over. You knew that Anthony Joshua was going
to eventually land something.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
That hurt Jake Paul.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
And you know how you know, the boxing world wanted
it to be brutal because Razindo was sitting here and
he goes, I hope he gets knocked out bad. He
didn't want it to get tko. They wanted Paul to
get absolutely destroyed. And honestly, that right hand, oh my god,
he took all.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Of that right hand.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
You could see in his face he was like, Okay,
now I understand boxing. Now I understand. Like at it's
worse what boxing can be because he got hit clean
by one of the biggest punchers, you know, acclaimed a
lot of accolades, World champion heavyweight, and he went down
(07:53):
and didn't get up, and honestly, I was hoping he
didn't get up because it was only gonna get worse.
I thought Francis should have stayed out when Joshua hurt
am bad. But a lot of times fighters just don't
really want to give up on themselves and that's why.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
They get hurt worse.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
But it was exactly what it needed to be tonight
for this fight, and for this fight, it was fun.
It was crazy at times with the wrestling and all
the grabbing, the and the clutching, the referee saying the
fans didn't pay for this ship, all the dirty tactics.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
And it ended in the way that it should.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Sometimes a story ends in the way that the story
should end. It always should have ended with Anthony Joshua
knocking out Jake Paul, and that's exactly what we got.
But I think it's time that people give Paul some
credit for what he did. What he did, what he
has done for boxing. It is ability and willingness to
(08:51):
stand in there with guys.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Now, I wonder, right what's next.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Does he go back to fighting people that don't belong
in that with him, or does he to continue this
upwards path into fighting these super high level boxers. Because
for a guy that does not have the greatest record
now Eve maybe seven to two, a guy that doesn't
have the longest career, he's the only one outside of
comic record that could fight this level of fight at
(09:17):
his experience and draw in the type of crowd that
they drew in tonight. This has to be one of
the biggest, one of the biggest fights AJ's had in
a while in terms of his ability in terms of
people to to then like looking watching, excitement, expectation, and
it was the least challenging and least threatening fight that
(09:38):
he's had in a really long time.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
But it ended as it was supposed to.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Anthony Joshua knocks out Jake Paul in the sixth round
with a nasty right hand that put him down for
the third time in the fight and ultimately ended the fight.
Joshua represents boxing in the way that he should have.
Jake Paul now is still a boxer, but he got
some rebuilding to do. But I'll tell you, man, I
leave this with a little more like positive outlook on
(10:04):
Paul because of what he did in there today and
him actually going in there and fighting the world champion.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
How many people would do that?
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Uh, guys, hey, like subscribe, tell your friends to tell
their friends that DC's got a YouTube channel and I'm
tapping in. I'm doing stuff like that. But Hey, some
stories just in the way they're supposed to in the
story tonight, it ended like it was supposed to. Anthony
Joshua was always supposed to knock out j Paul.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Boys, at my.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Wrong, rodrig got my wrong? Was that the ending you expected?
It was what's supposed to happen? Right? Yeah, well, imagine
come over here, imagine this, my boy, Rodrigo.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Obviously you guys know it from the Ultimate Fighter. What
would have happened.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
If he didn't knock him out would have looked bad
from boxing. It would have looked bad for boxing. If yeah,
oh god, josh yeah, yeah, it would have looked bad.
Thank goodness, Thank goodness. He knocked him out. All right, guys,
until next time, Peace,
The volume. All right, guys, say show is brought to
you by a new sponsor, hard Rock Bet. Hard Rock
Bet is a top rated sportsbook app. It might just
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for yourself. And guys, if you haven't tried your first
(00:24):
bet on hard rock Bet, there's still time if you
can get one to fifty and bonus bets if you win,
so place a five dollar bet.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
If that bet hits, you.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Not only get your winnings, but you get one hundred
and fifty dollars in bonus bets right away. Guys, Today's
a great day to try the hard Rock Bet sports app.
So it's not just the welcome offer. You can get
bonus bets. You can get parlay, insurance and other rewards.
The rewards and the promos are NonStop. So download the
(00:56):
hard rock Bet app and make your first deposit today
and bonus betts is not a cash offer offered by
the Seminal Tribe of Florida and Florida offered.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
By Siminal hard Rock Digital, LLC. In all other states.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
You must be twenty one or older and physically present
in Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, New Jersey, Ohio, Tennessee,
or Virginia to play. Terms and conditions apply. Concerned about
gambling in Florida called one eight eight eight A d
mit it. In Indiana, if you are someone you know
(01:32):
has a gambling problem and wants help, call one eight
hundred nine with it. And if you have a gambling problem,
call one eight hundred gambler.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Time for reaction.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Video to Jake Paul versus Anthony Joshua brought to you
by Total Wireless, the official wireless provider of you have
c They're in your corner when unlimited five G data.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
That will not slow you down? All right, man.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
So some people believe in fairy tales. Whoever believed that
Jake Paul was gonna win? That was an absolute fairy tale.
I've got a friend in a group message that said
I just put twenty dollars on Jake Paul to win.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
I was like, bro, he just wasted your money.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
There was never a world in which Jake Paul was
going to beat Anthony Joshuall was always a matter of
how the fight would end. So I watched all the
pundits talking about the fight. Even Razindo, my boxing coach,
I was like, does Anthony Joshua represent boxing? Everybody from
that world felt like Anthony Josquell was representing boxing, and
(02:40):
as the fight started to go on, first off, he
was representing boxing, so they wanted him to get the
job done all right, First and foremost, you can't lose
to a guy that's perceived to be a YouTuber, even
though today Jake Paul is more boxer than YouTuber. I've
said this time and time again. When you have resources,
when you can spend a million dollars a year on
(03:02):
training camps, housing, food, coaches, this is not recreational anymore.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
He's a boxer, He's just not a boxer at that level.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
I ran into his brother in New York City and
I said to Logan, what parameters are in place? Logan,
what safeguards do they have to make sure that Anthony
Joshua doesn't hurt your brother? He said, there are no
he goes, They're gonna just straight fight. So in that regard,
you gotta give credit to Jake Paul. He fought Anthony Joshua.
(03:38):
I swear to god, I thought it was a gimmick
in the beginning. I thought that's why he was calling
guys out like myself, Tyrenwood and Si Silva. And then
he lost to Tommy Fury. I was like, well, that's
the last time we gonna fight a boxer. But dude,
dude's got balls. Dude's got balls to standing there with
aj who had been off, so his chin is refreshed,
he's ready to fight. The fight starts, Joshua cannot catch
(04:04):
up to Jake. You can see very clearly that the
game plan was to Paul to kind of run and
frustrate Anthony Joshua over the course of his fight, and
through the first few rounds it was working.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Hell.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
In the first round, neither one of them landed a
damn punch. And that's the problem with boxing. The problem
with boxing is you can get these fights. Got have
all this hype, and nothing happens. In MMA. Ninety eighty
percent of the time there's action, fight starts, there's not
(04:38):
much action. The announcers even said they thought Jake might
have won the first round because he landed one punch.
I'm thinking to us, though, this is a nightmare. The
referee is completely lost. Jake is out there shooting double
legs on Aj. The ref looked like he was gonna
take a point. Never took a point. You could just
see Paul getting tired. I also saw the referee gave
(05:01):
him a break for a low blow when Jake shot
a double and all AJ did was stuff his head.
Nothing landed. Then when it showed it, what landed was
he pulled Joshua on top of it. His knee hit
him in the stumble. Hey, it was exactly what you
thought it was going to be at points, but it
was even better as the fight went on, because you
saw Joshua starting to kind of get.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Off on him. Pause.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
So Anthony, Joshua is fight trying to find him. As
the fight goes alonger all those big actions, the shots,
the big overhand rights, all those things are starting to
fatigue Paul. So Joshua keeps stalking, keep stalking. I always say,
you can intimidate someone with your posture. You can make
(05:46):
yourself bigger than you actually are. And that's what Joshua did.
Then he starts throwing the jab, and he starts throwing
the jab, and he starts throwing the jab. Dude, by
the fifth round, he knocked him down twice. I thought
the fight was gonna be over because he was gonna
knock him again, body shots putting him down, put Paul
down twice. Hats off to Jake. He kept trying to fight.
(06:07):
He kept getting up when he could have quit on himself.
At one point he started limping. It looked like that
was the moment he was gonna throw in the towel,
say you know what, I'm done, I'm injured, I'm hurt.
I don't want to do that. But hats off to him.
He got up and he kept fighting. We get to
the sixth round.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
And you can just tell that it's over. There are
a lot of people that said, Jake, Paul can't go
forward with you.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Joshua was very smart and saying, you gotta respect any fighter.
There were a few times where Jake actually landed those
big overhand rights that he put Tyron Woodley down with.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
But Joshua just ate that.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
And I think when Anthony saw he could take those
punches and they could really do no damage to him,
it even boosted his confidence more because then he got
even more reckless in his approach to getting after Paul.
I got a video Rodrigo and video just watching the fight,
so you got my innswery, my reaction immediately after the fight.
(06:59):
You'll see that at the end of the video. But
in the sixth round, you could just tell that this
fight was over. You knew that Anthony Joshua was going
to eventually land something.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
That hurt Jake Paul.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
And you know how you know, the boxing world wanted
it to be brutal because Razindo was sitting here and
he goes, I hope he gets knocked out bad. He
didn't want it to get tko. They wanted Paul to
get absolutely destroyed. And honestly, that right hand, oh my god,
he took all.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Of that right hand.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
You could see in his face he was like, Okay,
now I understand boxing. Now I understand. Like at it's
worse what boxing can be because he got hit clean
by one of the biggest punchers, you know, acclaimed a
lot of accolades, World champion heavyweight, and he went down
(07:53):
and didn't get up, and honestly, I was hoping he
didn't get up because it was only gonna get worse.
I thought Francis should have stayed out when Joshua hurt
am bad. But a lot of times fighters just don't
really want to give up on themselves and that's why.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
They get hurt worse.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
But it was exactly what it needed to be tonight
for this fight, and for this fight, it was fun.
It was crazy at times with the wrestling and all
the grabbing, the and the clutching, the referee saying the
fans didn't pay for this ship, all the dirty tactics.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
And it ended in the way that it should.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Sometimes a story ends in the way that the story
should end. It always should have ended with Anthony Joshua
knocking out Jake Paul, and that's exactly what we got.
But I think it's time that people give Paul some
credit for what he did. What he did, what he
has done for boxing. It is ability and willingness to
(08:51):
stand in there with guys.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Now, I wonder, right what's next.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Does he go back to fighting people that don't belong
in that with him, or does he to continue this
upwards path into fighting these super high level boxers. Because
for a guy that does not have the greatest record
now Eve maybe seven to two, a guy that doesn't
have the longest career, he's the only one outside of
comic record that could fight this level of fight at
(09:17):
his experience and draw in the type of crowd that
they drew in tonight. This has to be one of
the biggest, one of the biggest fights AJ's had in
a while in terms of his ability in terms of
people to to then like looking watching, excitement, expectation, and
it was the least challenging and least threatening fight that
(09:38):
he's had in a really long time.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
But it ended as it was supposed to.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Anthony Joshua knocks out Jake Paul in the sixth round
with a nasty right hand that put him down for
the third time in the fight and ultimately ended the fight.
Joshua represents boxing in the way that he should have.
Jake Paul now is still a boxer, but he got
some rebuilding to do. But I'll tell you, man, I
leave this with a little more like positive outlook on
(10:04):
Paul because of what he did in there today and
him actually going in there and fighting the world champion.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
How many people would do that?
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Uh, guys, hey, like subscribe, tell your friends to tell
their friends that DC's got a YouTube channel and I'm
tapping in. I'm doing stuff like that. But Hey, some
stories just in the way they're supposed to in the
story tonight, it ended like it was supposed to. Anthony
Joshua was always supposed to knock out j Paul.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Boys, at my.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Wrong, rodrig got my wrong? Was that the ending you expected?
It was what's supposed to happen? Right? Yeah, well, imagine
come over here, imagine this, my boy, Rodrigo.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Obviously you guys know it from the Ultimate Fighter. What
would have happened.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
If he didn't knock him out would have looked bad
from boxing. It would have looked bad for boxing. If yeah,
oh god, josh yeah, yeah, it would have looked bad.
Thank goodness, Thank goodness. He knocked him out. All right, guys,
until next time, Peace,
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