Overview
- Joshua finished Paul with a right hand in round six after dropping him twice in the fifth at Miami's Kaseya Center, then called out Tyson Fury for a long-discussed matchup.
- The professional contest featured eight three-minute rounds with 10oz gloves under a 245 lb weigh-in cap for Joshua; he weighed 243.4 lb to Paul's 216 lb.
- Referee Christopher Young rebuked the action in round four, telling the fighters, "The fans did not pay to see this crap," as clinching and scrappy sequences slowed the bout.
- Reports indicated the event carried an approximately $184 million purse split between the fighters, highlighting the commercial scale of the Netflix-streamed card.
- Paul said he believes his jaw is broken but vowed to continue his career at his own weight, and promoters rejected online claims of a scripted fight with legal threats against defamation.