Jake Paul vs. Joshua – Live Results from Miami

V. Giebel @ ringside: Anthony Joshua stops Jake Paul in six after repeated knockdowns in Miami

Joshua didn’t out-think anything. He just waited for Jake Paul’s body to fold. Six rounds, three knockdowns, and a finishing right hand told the story. Paul ran, smothered, fouled, stalled and whined his way through it.  Eventually the ring shrank, the shots got heavy, and the act collapsed.

Round by round, Paul tried to buy time. Lateral movement early. A couple jabs. A left hand here and there. Nothing built into a sequence. Joshua’s jab was inconsistent, but one clean right upstairs in the second reminded Paul what he was dealing with.

Paul’s temporary success came from wasting Joshua’s energy. Make him jab at air. Make him reset. Close the distance and smother the big shots. The problem is you can’t survive like that when someone weighs 240 and keeps throwing uppercuts. Survival is not a tactic. It’s a countdown.

How Many Knocks Can a YouTuber Take Before the Ring Stops Shrinking?

By the fourth, Paul was falling off balance, going down from pressure rather than punches. Joshua didn’t even need accuracy. A jab here, an uppercut inside, two hands on the back of Paul’s head to lift him into a shot. It became bullying, not boxing.

In the fifth, the gap turned into damage. Two knockdowns. Paul wandering, legs scattered, referee looking for reasons to halt. Joshua still missing plenty, but he didn’t need precision. Just weight.

The sixth opened with Joshua landing clean combinations. Paul taunted because there was nothing else left. A final right hand shut it down. KO-6. Nothing tactical, nothing clever. Just a career YouTuber learning what heavyweight power feels like across 18 minutes.

This wasn’t proof of Joshua’s resurgence. It just exposed the artificial ceiling. Anyone selling Paul as a world-level opponent now has to find a new script.

Wide Scores, No Threat, Is Baumgardner Preparing for Anything Bigger?

Alycia Baumgardner kept her belts. There was no real threat to her. The judges had it wide at 117–110 twice and 118–109. She controlled every stage, while the challenger showed plenty of grit but never produced anything that was going to turn the fight around.

Baumgardner boxed in third gear for most of it. Sharp enough counters, enough body work, but no sustained attempt to break Beaudoin down. When an opponent is trailing badly and still upright after ten, that usually means the champion has accepted a safe night rather than a definitive one.

Beaudoin worked hard and tried to stand her ground late, even backed Baumgardner to the ropes in the twelfth, but it was all effort without shape. Swinging without a setup. Baumgardner blocked, tied her up, and waited for the clock.

Baumgardner got tagged a little late, nothing serious, yet she still allowed the fight to spill into rounds that didn’t need to exist. She looked comfortable, maybe too comfortable, and comfort at this stage usually means you are not preparing for the next genuine threat.

One Uppercut Changed Everything, Why Did Woodley Sprint at Silva?

Anderson Silva needed one clean shot. Tyron Woodley gave him the opening in the second, and Silva punished him for sprinting at a man who has spent a lifetime punishing impatience. Woodley tried to bully early and ended up staring at the referee.

The opening round was nothing dramatic. Silva stood tall, watched, barely let his hands go. Woodley tried those dart-in raids, tapped the body a couple times, then backed out. It looked like a man hoping speed would hide the lack of ideas.

Silva finally stepped forward, looked for the left, then threaded a right uppercut through the middle. Woodley backed up to the ropes and Silva doubled down, another uppercut straight through the chin. Woodley tried to hold, couldn’t keep his feet, and went over.

Woodley beat the count but his balance was gone. No rhythm, no legs, no recovery. The referee saved him from pretending he is not hurt.

Can a Shutout Tell You More Than a Knockout?

Jahmal Harvey shut Kevin Cervantes out and made him look like a late replacement. 60-53 across the board, and it wasn’t generous .  Harvey dropped him in the first and Cervantes never recovered his legs or his confidence.

You could see the whole thing tilt instantly. Cervantes hit the floor, got up, and spent the rest of the night trying not to get embarrassed. Harvey boxed like a man who already knew the result, touching him up, stepping off, and taking every round without rushing for a finish. That tells you how wide the gap was: Harvey didn’t need chaos. Just rhythm and accuracy.

Cervantes never had a moment. No momentum swing, no pocket success, nothing to bargain with. Harvey’s shot selection was clean, and by the last round Cervantes looked like he was hanging on just to hear the bell.

How Long Can Cherneka Johnson Win Like This?

Undisputed female bantamweight champion Cherneka Johnson defeated Amanda Galle by a 10-round unanimous decision. Joshson threw nonstop punches, overwhelming the challenger Galle with shots.

Cherneka controlled Amanda Galle without ever stepping into brutality. It was efficient. It wasn’t dominant in the way champions pretend it is. You keep belts like that, but you don’t make people whisper about pound-for-pound anything.

If Dubois Gave Herself a B, What Does an A Look Like?

Caroline Dubois did what Dubois does: boxed tidy, shut the door behind her jab, and took a unanimous decision over Camila Panatta in their WBC lightweight title fight. Clean win, but Dubois admitted on camera she left gears unused. She gave herself a B. Fair. First fight on US soil, so she boxed within herself. That’s fine. But at some point she has to step on a throat if she wants Americans to remember her name without Googling it.

She thanked the crowd for spending money. That’s always a strange moment because fans don’t care about gratitude; they care about punch cruelty. Dubois will learn.

Other Fights

Yokasta Valle got her hand raised in a majority decision over Yadira Bustillos at strawweight. Valle always finds a way to make fights messy, and she dragged Bustillos into exchanges that made judges pretend they liked activity more than accuracy. Valle walks away again with hardware and more questions than answers.

Avious Griffin and Justin Cardona looked like they came to settle a bar tab, not box. Griffin iced him with a short, nasty sequence with seconds left in the first. Five ticks left and Cardona was staring at lights. That’s the only metric that matters,  the ref stepping in because a man isn’t defending himself anymore.

Keno Marley opened the night with a straightforward points win over Diarra Davis Jr at cruiser. Nothing wild. Just the kind of three-round template that gets you a paycheck and zero headlines.