Jake Paul's team are looking to take legal action just days after he was knocked out by Anthony Joshua in Miami.
The fight, which was live on Netflix, was almost unprecedented as it saw the vastly inexperienced Paul go up against former world heavyweight AJ, in a fight many experts warned could be dangerous for the influencer and content creator.
And that certainly proved to be the case as the 28-year-old suffered a broken jaw in two places during his sixth round knockout defeat, with Joshua landing some brutal blows after becoming frustrated with Paul's antics during the fight, which saw him regularly deploy clinching and falling over as a strategy.
Paul had only suffered one defeat in his career, even taking down the legendary Mike Tyson, which led some social media users to predict that the result may have been pre-planned.
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One viral post suggested that Paul sticking out his tongue at Joshua during the fight was a sign for the Olympic gold medallist to let him knock him out, but that obviously didn't pan out, as it wasn't long after when the referee finally ruled Joshua the winner, as his opponent struggled to rise from his latest knockdown.
Naturally, with millions of dollars to his name, Paul was never likely to be too happy with these allegations, especially as the fight saw him suffer a pretty serious injury, and his legal team confirmed that they'd be filing a lawsuit against a number of people who are accused of defamatory statements.
Nakisa Bidarian, co-founder of Jake Paul's Most Valuable Promotions, told Ariel Helwani: "Our lawyers are actively going after a number of people. One who claims to be a lawyer himself online.
"I don't remember the name or the handle, but it was something that had like 200,000 likes. And basically, this post said there was an agreement for AJ not to knock out Jake, but AJ disregarded the agreement and decided to not get his payday, but knock out Jake Paul."
The Most Valuable Promotions chief added: "So, it's pretty astonishing what people say. Your dear friend Lou DiBella... saw him put up a bunch of ridiculous things and even said, 'Nakisa, go ahead and sue me'. But this wasn't a real fight. He was pulling punches. He wasn't giving it his full effort."
Given the nature of the result, it is certainly surprising to see these allegations come to light, as although many had expected Joshua to win far quicker, he himself admitted that the performance was a long way from his best on Friday night.
Bidarian continued to defend Paul, saying '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 exactly the same situation as any professional fight.'
He concluded: "And that's exactly the same thing here for the Anthony Joshua fight. It's 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 obviously post-fight, and I understand why, but they were pretty adamant it would take max two rounds to knock out Jake Paul."
So, if that isn't a lesson that you can't get away with writing whatever you want on the internet, I don't know what is.
Topics: Jake Paul, Anthony Joshua, Boxing, Netflix
James Moorhouse