Jake Paul is just one fight removed from battling 57-year-old Mike Tyson and is now going up against an Olympic gold medal-winning boxer in his prime.

Most Valuable Promotion’s CEO Nakisa Bidarian, responsible for leading the promotion of Paul’s boxing career, said that discussions started in March regarding a match with Anthony Joshua (18-4).

“He started thinking about this in March, that he wanted to fight Joshua. I was always pushing him to do it later,” Bidarian told The Post. “Really, AJ has been on the sidelines for 14-plus months.

“So if Jake’s going to do it, this is probably a good time to do it.”

Paul, a +700 underdog in the bout after being favored in all but one of his previous fights, has an uphill battle against Joshua.

“I think there’s the potential that Jake Paul knock

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