Weekend online personalities Jake Paul and “manospheric” personality on social networks Andrew Tate each suffered high-profile defeats in separate boxing fights.
Professional boxer Anthony Joshua knocked out Paul in the 6th round on Friday night at the Kaseya Center in Miami, breaking the YouTuber's jaw in the process.
The following evening, Tate met with Netflix star and influencer Chase DeMoor as part of Tate's professional boxing debut in Dubai.
Here's what happened in both boxing matches.
Jake Paul reports double broken jaw after knockout loss to Anthony Joshua
American boxer and influencer Jake Paul (L) and British boxer Anthony Joshua fight in a non-title heavyweight bout at the Kaseya Center in Miami, Florida on December 19, 2025.
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Anthony Joshua knocked out Jake Paul in the sixth round of their heavyweight bout on Friday night.
Joshua picked up the pace against Paul from the opening round as neither fighter engaged early. Midway through the first round, Paul landed a right hand that Joshua blocked with his glove.
Paul scored with a short right hand to the head early in the fourth. Later in the round, Paul fell awkwardly to the ground twice, again trying to close the distance during close negotiations.
Referee Christopher Young counts American boxer and influencer Jake Paul seated on the floor during his bout against British boxer Anthony Joshua (left) in a non-title heavyweight bout at the Kasey Center in Miami, Florida on December 19, 2025.
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The two-time heavyweight champion dropped Paul twice in the fifth round and rocked him with a right uppercut early in the sixth.
Joshua then knocked Paul down with a combination to the head, and although the YouTuber got back to his feet, Joshua knocked him down a fourth time with a right hand to the head.
Referee Christopher Young counted Paul out at 1:31 of the round in front of a crowd of 19,600.
“It took a little longer than expected, but the right hand finally found its place,” Joshua said after the fight. “Jake Paul did very well today. I'm going to give him credit. He stood up time and time again. I give Jake credit for trying and trying. He faced a real fighter tonight.”
“As we saw tonight, Jake has spirit,” Joshua said. “He has heart and my hat goes off to him.”
With this win, Joshua can now reclaim the heavyweight title he lost against Oleksandr Usyk.
“I gave it my all,” Paul said. “Anthony is a great fighter and I got my ass kicked, but that's what this sport is all about. But I'm going to come back and keep winning.”
“By the way, I think my jaw is broken,” Paul, spitting blood onto the floor. “It's definitely broken. But it was a nice little ass from one of the best to ever do it.”
“I love this shit and I’m going to come back and get the world title,” Paul told Ariel Helwani. “We’ll heal the broken jaw and come back and fight people my weight.”
Jake Paul undergoes surgery for 'double broken jaw' after loss to Anthony Joshua
Paul, 28, who began his boxing career in January 2020, said his jaw was broken in two places after the loss to Joshua.
“Double jaw fracture,” Paul wrote on Instagram, sharing a photo of an X-ray of his jaw. “Give me Canelo in 10 days.”
In a separate post, apparently from a hospital room next to his brother Logan, Paul wrote: “Thanks for all the support, I'm fine.”
He then later updated his fans and told them that the “surgery went well.”
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“Two titanium plates on each side. Some teeth removed. Will have to drink only liquids for 7 days,” Paul captioned another Instagram post.
Paul had originally planned to host an exhibition in Miami with lightweight champion Gervonta Davis last month, but Davis faced legal issues that forced the event to be cancelled. Paul quickly turned around and fought Joshua in the same place.
Chase DeMoore defeated Andrew Tate in a Misfits Boxing 23 match
Influencer Andrew Tate, 39, and Too hot to handle Star Chase DeMoore, 29, fought in the main event of Misfits Boxing 23 on December 20, live on Rumble Premium at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Stadium in Dubai.
In the first round, Tate, a former kickboxer, threw several punches at DeMoore (not a professional boxer), who hit Tate with a right hand in the second round.
By the third round, DeMoor began landing right hands, and Tate's fatigue seemed to begin to show in the fourth round.
DeMoor was able to land an uppercut in the fifth round and split the skin above Tate's eyebrow, leaving the powerful man bleeding.
By the sixth round, both fighters looked tired, and DeMoor won by majority decision.
“I'm 10 years old, 40 years old, I tried my best, but he's tough. I don't know what to say. He's really tough,” Tate said after the fight. “It’s better to try and fail than not to try at all.”
When asked if fans would be able to see Tate in the ring again, he replied, “I'll have to go back and watch the fight and make a decision… but Chase deserves this win.”
“For all the draws [sic]DeMoore captioned an Instagram post after defeating Tate.
DeMoor won five of his fights on the Misfits Boxing (MFB) platform and retained the MFB Heavyweight Championship three times.
Tate issued a statement after his boxing debut
Tate acknowledged that DeMoor won the fight “fair and square” while talking about his defeat on social media.
“99.9% of 40 year old men with a net worth of $700 million are sitting around with someone. I could do the same thing and talk about crap on the internet without taking any risks and just live in peace,” Tate wrote on X. “Deep down I knew I was too old. I knew I'd been gone too long. That's why I had to do it.”
Tate said he went through the struggle to “face the fear.”
“I can't live in fear. I have to know that I faced this. I lost fair and square. Chase is a true champion. A warrior – I'm proud of him. He deserves the belt,” Tate added.
In another post, Tate shared a video about people who are “so afraid to live that they're already dead.”
“I didn’t have to do it, but it had to be done,” he said in the nearly two-minute video, which features clips from the fight. “It’s either the risk of losing or the constant dull ache of ‘what if?’.”
Tate said he is “not afraid to fail” but is “afraid of not trying.”
“The only way I’ll be disappointed in myself is if I’m too scared to fight in the first place,” he continued. “And when I first agreed to fight, there was a conversation and everyone said: “Andrey, you are 40 years old, you just got out of prison. You've been through so much. You have so many problems. There's so much going on. Why are you doing this? Why are you risking all this? Why would you want to go in there?”
Tate said he felt “a taste of fear for the first time in my life.”
“That's when I realized I was going to have to fight. I'm not one to think 'what if'. I'd rather go through the pain of fight camp and the risk of a fight than live the rest of my human years with the dull ache of what could I have become? What could I have done? Heroes fight. Even if I knew I'd lose, I'd still fight because that's who I am,” he added.
—With files from The Associated Press
