Mike Tyson anticipated details of the rules of the fight against Youtuber Jake Paul – – 2024-04-08 20:09:19

Mike Tyson heated up the atmosphere again in the run-up to his fight with Youtuber Jake Paul, which will take place on July 20. The former world heavyweight champion anticipated details of the fight and left a strong revelation about the characteristics of the evening in which he will face the influencer, 31 years his junior, who successfully ventured into the ring.

The boxing event will be at the AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, home of the NFL team, the Dallas Cowboys. While organizers hoped the fight would be regulated as a professional fight under the auspices of the Texas Boxing Commission, that will not be the case.

Iron Mike confessed that this will not be the case, although the boxing icon insisted that it would be fought under “real fight” rules. The two-time world heavyweight champion gave details about it: “This is called exhibition, but if you look for exhibition, you won’t see any of the laws under which we fight. This is going to be a real fight,” he told Fox News.

“This is a fight. “I don’t think he’s faster than me,” he mocked his future rival, who is also an influencer.

“That’s not the guy I’m fighting. “This is a guy who is going to try to hurt me, something I am used to, and he will be very wrong,” Tyson warned, that when he gets into the ring again he will be 58 years old. However, in some videos he uploaded training, the veteran New Yorker was seen in excellent physical condition and speed. In his professional career he had a total of 56 fights, 44 of them by KO, 6 by referee decision and 6 defeats.

I’m 58 years old, so what? I get billions of views just for talking to someone about the fight. Everyone, even most athletes, is jealous. I say, ‘At your peak, you couldn’t attract a million people.’ What are you talking about? The arena could not be filled. Who, at 58 years old, could fill a stadium with 80,000 seats? Why do you think they want to fight me and not anyone else? “Everyone wants to fight him – because of Jake Paul – but if he fought boxers, the only people who would see him would be the people who like him,” Tyson said in an interview with Reuters.

“I’m going to rip off your ear, Mikey,” Paul responded in reference to the dark episode of the bite of Evander Holyfield in 1997. The YouTuber has ventured into boxing since 2018 and has four victories. The first was an exhibition against his colleague Deji, by technical KO. At the professional level he won against another Youtuber, AnEsonGib (TKO), in 2019. Then, in 2020, he defeated the former basketball player, Nate Robinson, by KO in the first round. The following year he also repeated on the fast track against the mixed martial arts fighter, Ben Askren.

Meanwhile, Tyson promised to teach the former Disney star a lesson, but admits there is no bad blood between them. “I will do it, but I don’t like it? I don’t hold a grudge against him, not from this perspective,” he added.

Since Iron Mike returned to the ring in November 2020 in an exhibition fight with Roy Jones Jr, several have tried to challenge him and not only because he is a sports legend, but because of the millions his character moves in the United States. The fight against Jake Paul will be broadcast on Netflix for free to all existing subscribers of the streaming platform.