Jake Paul’s corner disappointed one of MMA’s most legendary coaches to such an extent in the Anthony Joshua fight that he felt like an avoided brush with death transpired in Late-December. This was expressed by Tristar figurehead Firas Zahabi, a Canadian MMA legend who has shaped careers like Georges St. Pierre’s and does so still to this day with names like Aiemann Zahabi.
On the Tristar YouTube channel discussing the fallout of AJ knocking out Paul to close out 2025 in their highly watched boxing bout on Netflix, Zahabi said,
Putting Jake Paul in there with Anthony Johnson [Joshua] was ridiculous.