Scorecard for Jake Paul vs Anthony Joshua Emerges and Fans Left Stunned

A scorecard has emerged following Anthony Joshua’s sixth-round knockout victory against Jake Paul and makes for interesting reading.

As most boxing experts expected, Paul struggled to deal with Joshua’s size and power, but to his credit implemented his obvious game plan of avoiding the Brit’s punches while refusing to become involved in close exchanges.

Between rounds one and four, the American evaded most of AJ’s power shots, with the 36-year-old landing just 17 shots in the first 12 minutes of the bout.

But the 2012 Olympic gold medallist found his aim in round five, landing 20 punches from 45 attempts, knocking Paul down twice.

In round six, Paul did not land a single blow on his opponent while the Brit landed 11 of 20 attempts, including a brutal right hand, which stopped the contest and secured his 29th professional victory from 32 fights.

Overall, AJ landed 48 out of 146 punches compared to Paul’s 16 from 56 attempts, and this was reflected in the scorecards.

Verdict released their scorecard shortly after the fight, with five full rounds scored in favour of Joshua.

Joshua edged round one with a score of 9.63 to 9.39 before widening the margin in round two with a score of 9.88 to Paul’s 9.13. Round three was scored the same as the previous round.

Round four was slightly closer, with Paul scoring 9.18, 0.58 less than Joshua’s 9.77.

And due to the two knockdowns Joshua scored a perfect ten in round five, while Paul scored 8.1.

It must be noted that this is not an official judge’s scorecard.

Fans were quick to offer their thoughts on the scorecards on social media.

It took longer than Anthony Joshua wanted, but he dropped Jake Paul four times before the sixth round stoppage.

AJ won every round on the Verdict Scorecard, but a couple were close.#JakeJoshua pic.twitter.com/KQ1AxGt53W

— Verdict (@VerdictMMA) December 20, 2025

One said: “Terrible scorecard. Jake won the 4th easily. The 1st was close, but neither did anything.”

Another added: “I thought ‘a couple’ meant more than 1. It shows one ‘close’ round on your scorecard.”

A third claimed: “Sometimes it’s about the spirit, not just the scorecard. Watching Jake Paul get knocked down and still stand back up was a reminder that resilience matters. He took a huge risk stepping into the ring with an opponent like Anthony Joshua, and even though he faced tough moments, he kept going.”

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Since the fight, Paul has revealed he sustained a double jaw break, which will keep him out of action for a while despite him teasing a fight against Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez.

Meanwhile, Joshua called out fellow Brit Tyson Fury, with the pair heavily linked with a fight in 2026.

“If Tyson Fury is as serious as he thinks he is, and he wants to put down his Twitter fingers and put on some gloves and come and fight one of the realest fighters out there that will take on any challenge, step into the ring with me next if you’re a real bad boy,” Joshua said.

“Don’t do all that talking, ‘AJ this, AJ that’. Let’s see you in the ring and talk with your fists.”