World-ranked heavyweight Lawrence Okolie has supplied to spar Jake Paul to organize him for his combat with Anthony Joshua.
Okolie is a former world champion at cruiserweight and in addition within the new ‘bridgerweight’ division. He is presently the No 1 ranked heavyweight contender with the WBC.
He is recognized Joshua for a long-time and from the early days of his novice profession has sparred with the previous unified heavyweight world champion.
However he’s intrigued to find what possessed Paul to tackle Joshua in a contest.
“It’s crazy. I want to go help Jake Paul, give him a chance. I want to go out there to Puerto Rico. What I don’t want to happen for him anyway is he gets absolutely destroyed in a round or whatever if AJ turns it on,” Okolie mentioned.
“I would like him to have a bit of feeling of what it is prefer to be in there with a world class heavyweight beforehand.
“I do know I’ve a combat arising, I believe on the identical day, however I am going to exit for a few weeks. I wish to know what’s it that is allowed Jake Paul to say to himself: I will get in there with a 250lb muscle man from England, this massive, towering man, Olympic gold [medallist], former heavyweight world champion, two-time, in entrance of hundreds of thousands of followers.
“I need to know. Maybe he’s got a secret that I don’t know.”
He recognises the large diploma to which Paul, a social media star who is known as a novice skilled boxer, needs to be out of his depth towards Joshua.
“I’m not going to sit here and pretend that it’s not a crazy difference in skill, difference in size, difference in all different ways,” Okolie mentioned.
“But you know what, crazier things have happened. So let’s just see.”
He does not although count on Joshua to begin rapidly and thinks it may last more than a spherical.
“From what I’ve gathered of AJ I don’t think he’s going to in there and go: ‘I’m going to hit him with a massive right hand and end it in 30 seconds,'” Okolie mirrored.
However he added: “I do think though if Jake Paul starts touching him then it’ll be okay [let’s go]. [Joshua] hasn’t been in the ring for a while, maybe he’s going to use it as an exercise. However if Jake Paul clips him and doesn’t take him out the first time he hits him hard, that’s when I think it’s going to get interesting.
“If Jake Paul hits him and does not take him out with the primary one then it is a lengthy evening.
“It just seems crazy but crazier things have happened.”
