JAKE PAUL has blasted Anthony Joshua and vowed to knock out the former heavyweight world champion.

Paul - who moved up to heavyweight in his last fight - had former super-middleweight world champion David Benavidez on his .

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And the YouTuber-turned-boxer admitted he would never face "Mexican Monster" Benavidez.

But he said: "I want to fight Anthony Joshua - exclusive - because I know I will f***ing beat Anthony Joshua's ass.

"He doesn't have a chin, and he has no skill and he's stiff. I love you Anthony, we'e friends, all this s*** but I want to fight you.

"I will beat Canelo, I will beat a lot of f***ing people - I will not beat David Benavidez. I would get torn up, bro. This guy's different."

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Paul teased a fight with AJ next year after posting a picture with Joshua on the phone.

He wrote: "Look who called. 2026 @anthonyjoshua."

Paul, 28, beat Mike Tyson, 58, in his last bout but it was marred in controversy amid the age gap between them.

After the fight - which was viewed by more than 100MILLION on Netflix - Paul's team opened the door to a potential AJ fight.

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Paul weighed a career-heaviest 227lb (16st 2lb) for his eight-round points win over Tyson.

Joshua, 35, was 252.5lb (18st) for his September KO loss to Daniel Dubois, 27, meaning there is still a TWO STONE difference with Paul.

The 11-1 American celebrity was also in shock talks to fight Mexican legend Canelo Alvarez, 34, on May 3 in Las Vegas.

But the unified super-middleweight champ pulled out of the deal at the last minute to sign a four-bout deal with Saudi's Turki Alalshikh.

Canelo will now fight William Scull, 32, on May 4 in Riyadh and Terence Crawford, 37, in September.

And Paul has spoken out after the collapse of the mega-fight for the first time to give his perspective.

He claimed: "I can explain the situation with me, basically everything was ready to go, signed LOI (letter of intent) and confidentiality agreement.

"But basically Turki hates me - absolutely hates me. We heard through the back channels for multiple weeks - because we had been negotiating since the Monday after the Tyson fight.

"So we were negotiating for two months straight and the whole entire time Turki was doing everything in his power to strip the fight and try to make it not happen.

"Calling Canelo, calling Canelo, Eddy Reynoso, basically saying, 'Why you doing this? Why you doing this?'

"Basically to the point where he had to threaten Canelo with his three-fight deal, 'You're not fighting Crawford, I'm not paying you any of this money.'

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"And he's basically paying him over $100million for this random ass fight in May.

"And Canelo at some points is like, 'Okay, you bought me. I'm not going to fight this kid Jake.'"

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