Jake Paul’s legal team are taking action after claims that his fight with Anthony Joshua was rigged. The ‘Problem Child’ suffered a sixth-round knockout at the hands of AJ in the early hours of Saturday morning at the Kaseya Center in Miami, Florida.

Paul was dropped twice in the fifth round before he was finished in the next round with a hard right hand, shattering his jaw in two places. The rumour mill churned ahead of the bout that Joshua had agreed to take it easy on the 28-year-old, however, this was swiftly denied by both parties. Said claims have continued in the aftermath and, as a result, Nakisa Bidarian – Paul’s business partner – has vowed to take legal action.

Speaking on the Ariel Helwani show, he said: “Our lawyers are actively going after a number of people, one who claims to be a lawyer himself online… it was a post which had around 200,000 likes. Basically, the post claimed there was an agreement for AJ not to knock out Jake but AJ disregarded it and decided to forego his payday to knock out Jake Paul.

“It’s pretty astonishing what people will say. There has never once in Jake Paul’s career been any talk of that sort, of anything to do with the fight being anything but a real fight that has the same situation as any professional fight.

“That’s exactly the same thing here with the Anthony Joshua fight. It is just beyond mind-blowing that people would think that. Anthony Joshua was on record saying that if he didn’t finish him in the first round, that would be disappointing, that it would be a failure.

“The narrative changed as we got closer to fight night and post-fight and I understand why, but they were pretty adamant it would take max two rounds to knock out Jake Paul.”

Elsewhere, Eddie Hearn also had a blistering response when asked whether the fight was fixed. He said: “You do know that he’s broken his jaw in two places? He may never be able to fight again.

“People just think; ‘Oh, you just get your jaw wired, bolted together by a couple of screws, and on you go’. There have been many fighters who have had their jaws broken that never boxed again.”