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In a little bit more than 2 weeks from now, on 15th November, a highly controversial fight will take place between Jake Paul and Mike Tyson. It's dubbed by many to be a profanation of boxing, and it's hard to disagree.
Nevertheless, it's happening, so worth having a dedicated thread to discuss.

Most experts agree that it should be an easy win for Paul, that includes his former opponents, Ben Askren and Mike Perry:
https://talksport.com/boxing/2206286/jake-paul-ben-askren-mike-perry-mike-tyson-prediction/

But still, it's Mike Tyson, a former undisputed heavyweight champion, who despite his age (58) still knows how to throw a punch. Some training footage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBIAwVnt_1U

The odds for Mike are currently at x3.40, so could be a good bet. All he needs to do is to successfully explode early on before he gasses out. I wouldn't be putting any serious money on that though.

There is already a thread on this fight, if I weren't mobile I'd find it. Regardless, I will refrain from betting as I am not 100% sure the fight isn't just a staged fight. Jake Paul picks big names and makes a ton of money from the fights as does the other fighter he is fighting with at the time. If I was sure it wasn't a rigged fight, I would put some money on Tyson as his KO power is incredible.

they are probably considering Mike Tyson's age and especially the health issue he has because, without the health issue, I would completely go for Mike Tyson.

anyway, I'm sure a lot of people would put a bet on their fight but if you ask me, it is not worth it.

here's the thread If you're into boxing betting, would you bet on Mike Tyson or Jake Paul? (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5508028.0)

That's crazy. I remember Mike Tyson saying that the match would have to be postponed before of some health problems he had developed like 6 months ago. Has he recovered from all of those yet?

There was even talk about the whole fight getting cancelled if he could not make it (there is understandably no back-up fighter for Jake Paul to fight).

Jake Paul probably wins this one. But my heart says Tyson.

yeah, the match was postponed because of his health condition, he does look like he has recovered from it. from what I know he has sciatica and peptic ulcer, both of which are recurring so it is possible that he will suffer from it again in the future, both health conditions are nasty and painful when it occurs. I just hope this fight doesn't cause a flare-up on his conditions.

Yes, he had like ulcer or something.


Jake Paul did continue to fight on the supposedly scheduled date on June 24 and defeated Mike Perry.


He is a huge favorite, so yes, most likely he will win this fight. But for sentimental feelings, others like you might want Tyson to win. For those generation who have seen Mike Tyson fight in his prime, he is really that scary. But at 58 years old, I doubt that he can bring back that old version of himself. He might be good for at least a couple of rounds and then age will caught up on him and get tired and no gas tank as the fights goes along and that could be his downfall.

For those who wanted to see the latest odds,

https://www.talkimg.com/images/2024/10/31/KWzGl.png

Mike Tyson is almost 3:1 underdog, so obviously, we will make a lot of money if he will win, via KO or Decision. But it's the question that at his age, will Mike still has that power, or if he has, can he land it against a younger opponent in Jake Paul? So really hard to bet on Mike hear as we have pointed out, he had retired for a long time and so he is already a grand father vs a young and prime boxer although not a professional in a sense, but still all advantage points to Jake Paul here.

It's the ulcer that really cause the postponement last July. Unfortunately, Netflix has already put a lot of money in the promotion so they can't simply postponed or cancelled this fight. And it was reported that Tyson has been paid $20 million already.

Hopefully Tyson will be 100% in the fight so that there will be no excuses.

Although we should expect that Jake Paul is going to win here as Tyson is old and we might say that he shouldn't box at all.

$20M is a lot to refuse for Mike; after all, this is just an exhibition fight, and even if he loses, it's fine. He just has to keep the doctor in his corner all the time and call the fight off if he feels something.

It's expected already that Mike will lose as well. The old man is 58, who does that at such an age but Mike. It got demand because he is the hero of legendary boxers and people want to see him fight still.

That's always a risk with those fights, especially given past rumours about some strange secret clauses in Paul's opponents' contracts etc. In all fairness, I don't think the risk of the fight being straight-rigged, meaning Mike would agree to take a dive etc. I would imagine that would be illegal and at this level they wouldn't be able to keep things like that secret. Especially considering Paul has lost one of such fights (to Tommy Fury).
I think the biggest risk factor is Jake Paul using performance-enhancement drugs. I don't believe he would get tested for such (I could be wrong though). Otherwise I don't think Paul's team would have to resort to paying Mike to lose. Paul is a big favourite anyway and lets not pretend Tyson is resistant to aging. He's not the same boxer that he used to be. And if either of them loses, it won't be the end of the world for them.


That's why I think he would have to go all in either in round 1 or round 2 and search for a KO if he seriously wants to win it.

I have been seeing the Netflix "documentary" previews every single time that I log in to netflix.  Someone the other day was arguing with me trying to act like Mike Tyson had no chance of winning due to his age, which I find hilarious as Tyson might be older but he can still beat the shit out of the majority of people regardless of age.  He's Iron Mike Tyson, you don't just completely lose those "powers", so to speak.  Can't wait.

Tyson has looked impressive in all the training videos he has posted on social media. Neither fighter is enrolled in VADA and the state of Texas is not strict about drug testing. It makes me question if Tyson is taking some special supplements to enhance his performance. It will still be a difficult challenge for Tyson considering his age. I don’t expect him to win but I hope he can put up a good fight and expose Paul’s weaknesses. Jake Paul struggling against an old man would really bruise his ego and might negatively affect his marketability.

It no secret that some people consider this fight blasphemy against boxing, but it an exhibition and some people also consider it entertainment and nostalgia for Mike Tyson in the boxing ring, I quite happy with Mike Tyson willingness to fight again even though he has lower chance of winning against Paul.
Paul is far more favored but as Mike Tyson fan betting little money on him to win and supporting him is matter of pride because after all this fighting has happened there no guarantee we get to see it again for second time.

 who knows, coz mike still have strength and i can hear it on his every punch during his training for this fight especially the speed, it's really amazing to be honest wherein he seems like not an old man when moving and punching .
so i believe if he take it seriously for sure jake paul will end up KO. Lastly ,i don't believe that his skills  fades already because its built in and what will be the problem on mike here is the stamina since his opponent is very young.  

Btw good odds and i will set my calendar for this and i hope it will not change soon.

And that is the thing with Mike Tyson or the promoter of the fight itself, they wanted to show the fans that Mike can still pull the trigger, but nevertheless, I see him just have enough for 2-3 rounds and then he will get tired.

I don't know what kind of drugs Tyson should have to take though in order to win this fight. As for Jake, I don't know, but if you look at his body and in this fight, he had to gain a lot of pounds and muscles to be considered as a Heavyweight, so most likely he might be taking some.

Training is different though, body bags doesn't throw back and we have seen a lot of good fighters in training moving like they are going to win. But when the bell rings, it's totally different for them.

Tyson will make this fight and take it seriously, and will go in the first couple of rounds and see if Jake Paul has a good chin. But for sure Jake Paul knows this so he might run early and then we see that Tyson is tired in the middle of the rounds, then he might go and try to score more points. And yes, stamina is going to be a big key in this fight. For Tyson, he shouldn't out punch himself.

My heart says Tyson as well because I can't comprehend a "boxer" like Jake Paul having a real chance to actually beat Tyson. I've also recently saw a lying detector test for Jake Paul and even him doesn't believe he can beat Tyson because as soon as you enter in that ring with him , you lost the fight.

Sure , this event involves a lot of money , involves an old Tyson who needs money and involves a young Jake Paul who guess what ...do have the money to make this fight happen but also have the money to pay Tyson and I'm sure he also has the money to "rig" this fight and make it more entertainment than a real boxing fight. At least this is how I currently see this situation.

Well, that will likely happen, especially because Jake pays them all, including Tyson. But if he can't KO Tyson, it will still be Jake by decision. I couldn't see Mike winning, but he can make it even just a decision or draw.

It must be profitable for Netflix to make this fight live on them that they really intend to make this happen after several delays. Netflix opening a door for this kind of event will probably make this a regular event.

It's still an exhibition fight and I think both boxers realize that, and as for Tyson's fitness and physicality, he looks phenomenal for 58 years old. I saw a video where he trains Ngannou and you can see how fast Tyson is even now and how he calmly does physical exercises that a 58-year-old man without training can not do, and Tyson had problems with the law and was in jail, but still retained phenomenal speed.

The fact that this fight will be broadcasted by Netflix and the stadium for this fight holds 80 thousand spectators, tells us that many people still want to see Mike, because Mike is the best thing that happened to boxing for 30-40 years.

Exactly, that could be his best chance to win in this fight, go all in the early rounds and really push Jake Paul to his limit and see if he can score a quick knockout victory. Because if the fight goes a little longer, Mike chance are getting slimmer and slimmer.

But if Jake Paul is wise and that his trainer knows or that they have thought that this is a possibility in advance, he might go and just cover himself up in the first couple of rounds and try to be lucky and evade that power from Mike Tyson. And then when he sees that Mike is getting tired after, then that is his chance to score points. I don't see Jake Paul scoring a knockout win though.

Speaking of injury, I remember when Beterbiev got injured also weeks before their fight hence, they postponed it and eventually, he won despite of him getting the injury. I'm not saying that this is also the same with Tyson knowing that he's old, but there's a chance that the "health problem" is a way for him to prepare even longer. Of course, I might be wrong, but does he recover already from that "injury"? I think so because we've seen some of his videos online already and there's also a video where he even knocked down his sparring partner.

Like you, I will go for Jake Paul on this one unless it's staged or rigged. I always believe that in whatever sport it is, age is always a factor and with this one, an around 20-year age gap is enough for me to say that Jake Paul has the advantage in everything... except in power maybe. Nevertheless, I will not risk my money betting on Tyson on this one. He might not even last for the full 12 rounds (if it's 12 rounds). Let's not bring back the Mike Tyson on his prime because he's not like that anymore and probably he's only doing this for the sake of money.

It's very different fight though, the fight could go either direction. There are fans that says at least the fight could end up in the draw. And I think for Beterbiev he really had that injury and so it take him sometime to recover. But for Tyson, maybe he was advise to take it easy or rest for a while, that's why the fight is postponed till November to give him more time to heal and recover.

The fight is getting closer though, and Jake Paul is still a big favorite and I do not that that there will be swing in Mike Tyson's favor. But for sure, there are fans here that is pro-Mike Tyson, and could be betting for him as the underdog.

In few interviews Mike hinted that he predicts Jake to keep running away from him, avoiding exchanges and maybe scoring points with jabs and simple one-two combos. And I think that's likely to happen. Paul's goal will be to keep the distance and maybe become more aggressive when he sees Mike gassing out.
The question is, will Mike be able to corner Jake while preventing him from clinching and forcing him to brawl? I think it's possible but I probably wouldn't be putting any money on that.

Hopefully, Jake will not just put up his bicycle in this fight, hehehe, fans are going to pay huge money on them to see both engaging in a fanfare but there should be some action as they promised it during their pre-fight interviews so Jake should live by that hype.

He really needs to engage Mike in the beginning to really test Tyson if he has that power, or his age really caught up with him. Jake though is also known to have a gas problem as he usually gets tired in the middle rounds. And with that added muscle on him as he needs to go up to the heavyweight, maybe it could also have an effect on his body as the fight goes in the distance.

I doubt if Jake is afraid of Tyson. He's 27 years young. He's active, just had his previous fight 4 months ago. This bout is his own making. Tyson, on the other hand, is about to claim is senior citizen ID. So, Jake won't be running all throughout the fight. He won't be unnecessarily catching Mike's powerful shots, though. But if such occasion arises, I think Jake can absorb whatever is left with Mike's power.

I'm not expecting much from this fight, anyway. Jake's the director of this one. Despite his blabber, he respects Mike and is very much aware of his age. Mike, on the other hand, has to do the job creating hype. In the end, it might just be jabs and clinches. 

We don’t need to overhype this exhibition match as it’s already been hyped a lot. You have a good point; this could end up being full of clinches since Tyson may struggle to match the speed of a younger Jake Paul. If we’re banking on Tyson’s legendary power, we’re mistaken- that was a long time ago. He doesn’t have that KO power anymore, especially against a young, active boxer.

Let’s just see this as a pure exhibition match. I wouldn’t recommend betting on it if you don’t want to be disappointed, who knows, it could even be scripted. My only hope is that Tyson stays safe, as he might take some heavy punches. If Jake Paul is considerate, he won’t take it too seriously against the older legend.

Just to clear up some confusion - this fight is not an exhibition fight. It is sanctioned and will be reflected in the boxing records of both fighters.
It's going to be an official fight under non-standard rules:

https://www.cbssports.com/boxing/news/jake-paul-vs-mike-tyson-fight-explained-why-the-two-stars-are-facing-off-and-what-the-rules-will-be/

Hold on a sec, lemme get this straight; I thought they were already done competing? I may have missed an update on this match but, I can recall engaging so well on a prediction thread about this match and since then, I haven't heard nor seen anything... Is it happening again or something?
So clearly, Mike feels he's still in his mid-prime to defeat against Jake Paul? Hmm... I don't wanna sound like a weirdo ( cus ofcourse, if Mike were to see this comment, he'll see me as one) but I feel it's a bit unnecessary to stain his career. Yes, I know exactly WTF iron Mike Tyson was, and I understand even more what old age can do to the strongest of the beast!
Don't quote me, I'm not saying Jake's gonna win... I'm just tryna get more specificities as this was previously set as a friendly competition, no?

From what I’ve read in some articles, this fight is not an exhibition but a sanctioned bout that will be reflected on each boxer’s professional record. However, I do agree that Mike Tyson is too old for this and should have retired from boxing. Yet, the money involved in this fight is too huge to turn down.

Many professional athletes have a hard time accepting the fact they're no longer in their prime and it's time to quit for good. But I don't think it will be much of a stain in his career. It's not he has a perfect, 100% win record. He has 6 losses on his record, 5 by KO and 1 by disqualification for biting Hollyfield's ears. There already are some stains there, one more won't make much difference. Apparently he still thinks he has it in him and the money is probably better than what he had got for most fights in his prime age. I can't blame him for trying.

I don't think Mike still thinks he has it in him.  Just before they announced this fight Mike said that he thought he was going to die soon.  Even now he is saying that he doesn't need to be the old Mike Tyson to win, he just needs to be 10% of what he was.  I just hope we see a good entertaining fight, I hope Mike gets himself at least $20 million and most importantly, I hope we don't see Mike Tyson get hurt out there.  I do wonder what the final payday for Mike will be.  I'm guessing it's got to be between $20-100 million.

Yeah, there are rumours he will get a minimum of $20 million for the fight, but, it could be double that, contingent on some other factors. Either way, he will earn more than many champions (especially in lower weight classes) earn in their lifetimes.
I'm not sure how realistic Mike is in assessing his own abilities. In the interviews I've seen, he seemed a bit deluded, but maybe it was him just trying to do his part to sell the fight.

I wish him all the best though and even considering placing a small bet on him, given the odds are pretty decent.

I thought this was just a rumor 4 months ago, but now it seems like it will happen. I found this on Netflix that makes me curious after trying to search about Jake Paul he is younger than Mike Tyson almost half of his age.

I have mixed feelings about Mike Tyson because he is older and has less training than a younger fighter, and I am concerned about his health. However, Mike Tyson is a legendary heavyweight boxer with devastating knockout power. I believe Mike is going to lose this fight, but my bet is still with him.

I'm not sure if you have followed this fight, but this is originally scheduled in July, until Mike Tyson had a ulcer and so it was postponed and then re-scheduled this November. Yes, this is going to be shown in Netflix, and if you are subscribed to their service, it's going to be free.


Almost everyone has the same feeling, Mike is old and he might not pull the trigger anymore. Although there are videos of him practicing and he seems to look strong. But that is different when you go to a ring with a young boxer like Jake Paul. And then others see that Mike might have problems with his gas tank as he could tired and not last the full fight.

In both late performance records, Mike Tyson has been undisputable compared to Paul.
The physique and experiences attained by Mike Tyson has the potential to pave him winning. I would not want disputes the fact that he is 58 at age would be a barrier to him to counter Paul who is just 27.

If I can read the ambition of Mike Tyson, he would apply all devouring muscles and tactics to bring Paul down just to make history of all time again after other legends who had formally encountered Paul but were all beaten by the young, active and vibrate boxer of Paul.

Assuming I will bet on this match, I will be betting on Mike Tyson to win. If I loose too much is bet which are unpredictable and not a shame on Tyson for loosing my bet. Hence... It a kudos to him of standing out.

After so many postponements, it finally seems like the fight will happen. Here in my country, the advertisements have already started everywhere, especially since boxing is in the news because of Acelino Popó Freitas and the death of Adilson Maguila. I would bet on Mike, even though the fight is just for entertainment, I believe that Jake Paul will not be able to knock Mike down. He is well prepared, and he is completely different from when he ended his career.

I'm with Tyson in this fight since long term experience on boxing scene plus to many  difficult challenges has been face up by the legend, so for sure he would not gonna messed up with this fight.

Although we can say that Paul is young, but that doesn't really mean he has the advantage of this fight. Although as said this is an exhibition fight only for sure this is still entertaining that's why lots of people talking about this match up and want to see if Tyson still capable to box even if this is not a pro fight. November 15 is near and now I'm also thinking to bet in favor of Tyson.

There is no question about the experience, obviously, it will favor Tyson as he has been a pro and fighting since the 80's if you are not that aware of. And with that he is 58 years old and we all know that in this sports, age is a big factor.


That is his advantage, he is young and so if he know how to use it, then he can beat the legendary Mike Tyson. And for others who are looking at the odds and going to bet, the attractive one is the fight going to distance at 2.90.

I honestly don't know what to expect from this fight. Assuming they haven't some sort of agreement to take it easy on each other much like the last Tyson fight against Roy Jones Jnr which was obviously just an exhibition then it's 50/50 to me if they do go full force each. I think it's lose-lose for Jake though (leaving aside the insane amount of money he will have received). If he wins then he's beaten a near 60-year-old Tyson, and if he loses then he's lost to a near 60-year-old Tyson. If he KOs Tyson then a lot of people are gonna hate him for it. IF they do go full force anything can happen. Tyson is still vicious so could get an early KO but as the fight goes on it will lean in Jake's favour given his youth and stamina and he's gone the distance a couple of times especially with Tommy Fury, a current pro boxer (though an average one at that) so I could see Jake getting a stoppage or just wearing him down round after round.

I think I'm looking forward to the Taylor/Serrano rematch more. I actually think Serrano got robbed in the first fight but Katie won't have the home crowd (and possibly judges) on her side this time so might get a fairer shot.


Mike is still scary even at his age. Jake has said a couple of times he gets scared seeing some of Tyson's training footage but could just be trying to sell the fight.

Here is the video wherein he said that he is afraid of Mike,

https://img.youtube.com/vi/QMXd_H_sLEU/0.jpg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMXd_H_sLEU).

Go moved to 4:30 and he says that he got a little scared when he sees Mike Tyson post on IG. And who wouldn't be afraid of the baddest man in the planet? Although this could be fun and for pure entertainment. But let's see if they will make it real and try to knock each other out.

Who wouldn't be a bit scared of Mike Tyson? Man is an idol, an icon in the ring, a lot of boxers want to emulate him, a lot look up to him, a lot learn from him. So you going against your idol comes with a bit of fear, excitement, and everything. And for Mike to get in the ring, he's either there to win or maybe have a friendly match, but if he's not playing a friendly match, then he will most likely knock out Jake. That's why Jake has the fear because he might try his best but one serious punch from Mike can move him like five steps backwards.

Even though Mike is advanced in age and might be a senior very soon,  it doesn't erase the fact that he has tactics and years of experience that Jake is still growing and learning to have. Jake might be active and all of that, but you know there is this thing with tactics - knowing exactly where to punch, when to attack, and all of that.

So that's just how I see it. Jake might not be all that afraid, but there is this thought that this person is experienced and might just use one or two tactics to get me down.

Yes, definitely, Mike Tyson is still scary, and not just that, it seems that Jake Paul really respected him.

However, as what he said, at the end of the day, they are going to war against each other and so he really needs to overcome that fear and challenge himself. But if you think about it, Mike Tyson is already old and that's why he is a big underdog and we don't know if he can pull the trigger. Their is a big difference if you see him with his trainer, as compare to be in the ring. As maybe in just a couple of rounds, he will be running out of breath.

Mike Tyson looked downright scary in that public workout while Jake Paul looked like he was intentionally trying to look bad. I’m not sure what we’re going to see, but I’m excited. I hope we see a couple moments of vintage Tyson action but most importantly I hope we see a clean fight and everyone walk away safely.

I don't think he's too concerned about what people in general think of him. He probably has a group of loyal fanboys who would follow him and consume his content no matter what (until a new, better e-celeb emerges).
This has little to do with sport and everything to do with show business, publicity and money. After losing to Tommy Fury, a mediocre boxer (who btw hasn't fought any other boxer since that fight), Jake will not make the same mistake twice and will limit himself to fighting big names from other disciplines and/or past their prime.

I don't think beating Mike would make any dent to Paul's "career", but getting KO'ed would. He's a big favourite in this fight, so it would be harder to hype up any future fights after getting put down by a 60-year-old.

Yeah. Jake is an active boxer who has been on the current era of influential boxers, marking that Tyson has retired and no longer active on real time on the boxing ring may not possibly diminish his own possession soon like that because he has as much been on the board of most undisputed boxers during his era too.

They all have their best rates of  performances which I don't see Tyson faded so soon to be subdued by Jake.
I doubt and based on game of fun, I am supporting Tyson and sure that I will be betting on him because I am more confident in him winning that Jake.

Mr Tyson is one of the strongest boxeur that we have ever seen in the world.
A war machine, literally. I think that face/eyes when he gives a punch are somewhat crazy by itself.
But it seems there is a clause that Mr Tyson can't "hurt" Jake so this can lead to a "weak" performance by boxeur.
Lets see... for sure these kinds of matches "for fun" have become more and more common practice :(

I’m not sure if Mike Tyson has much left in the tank at his age. He might be able to survive the first round, but he could run out of steam in the following rounds. It would be great if he could catch Jake right from the start, but I doubt that will happen since Jake will likely be very cautious of Tyson’s power, even at his age.

Tyson isn't anymore the baddest man in the planet. That title has long been expired. And that's precisely the reason why Jake personally picked Tyson as his next opponent. He once was the baddest and he's about to be admitted to the house of the aged.

Of course, Jake would say that. He had to. This is, after all, a fight between two men who have more than 30 years of age difference. The difference is older than Jake himself. This fight has to look fair. This fight has to sell. This fight has to look serious despite being directed by a clown.

Well, Tyson can still fight. He still has some power left in him. I'm hoping against hope that he will hurt and defeat this coward and put him to shame for choosing a rusty old man.

In a little more while it's going to be a great match in terms of entertainment. This has been a long-time coming fight and it can be a great opportunity to profit as well. What I'm worried about is how well would be the odds for someone like Tyson at this age. It was 2020 when he last fought right? But professionally it's 2005 IIRC.

This is going to be an exciting match.

That's the only part that should worry me if I were to place a bet on the fight. Off course, I would be betting on Tyson if I were to. The part of him gassing out would be one to look at because of his age. I've watched a few training clips of his and saw how he panted in them. Come to think of it, Tyson hadn't been a patient fighter. It could also be the reason he liked finishing up in early rounds so as to retain his energy. He never liked his fights dragged beyond the 4th–5th rounds if he could during his reigning days.

It was against Roy Jones if I'm not mistaken, but it was the same for entertainment as we are in the middle of the pandemic and so fans are looking for something like a exhibition match. The fight ended in a draw, again, I'm just drawing everything from memory so I might be wrong here.

But this time, it's going to be different, they picture this as real as it gets, the rules are under pro and they seems to put Mike Tyson as if he is still in his prime and could destroy Jake Paul in this fight. On the contrary, he is old and rusty and not sure if he can go full rounds against a young and motivated fighter.

It's a sure thing that he will gas out, he has been out for many years, so he is not that active, and then his age as well. So pretty much if you have followed this sports, ring rust due to inactivity will result to a boxer being tired or even out of rhythm. And before he will get his act together, he could be very well tired due to his age. So he could be just like in the fight for the first 1-3 rounds, then after that he will gas out and run out of energy and so his punches will not have any effect on Jake. And that will be the time that Jake will take advantage of, and scoring and maybe soften Mike Tyson in the next couple of rounds and take the win.

Mike Tyson, is a boxing legend, and despite his age, anybody that is entering the ring to fight with him mustn't underestimate him, or they might have themselves to blame. The prestige of a lion stays with him no matter how old it is, so Jake Paul, did well to respect the legend outside the ring and he should also extend it into the ring because iron Mike, still got it. I'm particularly happy for Mike Tyson, that despite his age he can still make headlines, meaning that his career hasn't quite faded away, and what's more, he's surely going to be richer after the fight, whether he wins or loses to the younger opponent.

I think that there is a high chance this fight will be rigged. Jake Paul has money and wants fame, Tyson has fame and wants money, so why won't he allow a small kid to beat him? He is an old man, retired, if he gets beaten by Jake Paul, he loses nothing because it won't affect him in any way, he doesn't have a career in boxing anymore.

But I find it strange that bookmakers accept bets on Jake Paul VS Mike Tyson. Am I the only one who thinks that this fight can be rigged?

Mike Tyson is a different breed. I haven't seen a human like him. He is 58 years old but still has more muscle mass than majority of young men in their 20s. Even at 58, his boxing is phenomenal. I watched his Instagram reels and I can't believe that 58 years old, even if it's Mike Tyson, can box this well but the fact is fact, he can, that's why he is a different breed.

It really will be very bad if it ends that way, a staged fight. A lot of people have invested their emotions into this, believing they will be truly entertained. If it turns out like what happens in wrestling (WWE), where it's all showboating, then novelty bouts are likely not going to be getting attention in future like they're getting now. I mean, why would anyone waste their time to think they're going to be watching real men box only to witness sissified drama in the ring? That won't be me.

At this point no one really believes this fight won't be rigged in a way or another. My opinion is that the fight will end up with a draw so one really can be upset on Tyson but also won't make Paul look badly because if this fight ends up any different , it will be a big mess. If it ends with Tyson wins , most of us will be happy yes , but the promoters ? the ones who have money invested in this show won't be so happy. Then , if Paul wins , the internet will explode against Paul which can affect his next fights viewers and overall he will kinda become a very hated man across internet and no one really wants that. So again , a draw should be the outcome of this fight as long as it's rigged in the correct way.

I'm not really talking about Jake's fans but the rest of the world and other boxing fans. Jake's fans are a drop in the ocean compared to the boxing fraternity and fans. Tyson is one of the GOATs and is beloved by boxing fans so nobody wants to see him get hurt. Quite a lot of boxers have been quite vocal about what they think of the fight and are worried about Tyson getting hurt. Even Tony Bellew got into a bit of a clash with Jake recently and has been quite vocal about what he thinks of the fight any chance he gets: https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/boxing/tony-bellew-paul-tyson-press-conference-b2646760.html


Baddest Man on the Planet is Ngannou's title  ;D


I think I might look at the odds for a first round KO, though I'm sceptical if they might have an agreement to take it easy for the first round or so so it's not over in a heartbeat.

Tyson is a legend, and Jake is a showman who knows how to attract attention to such fights, so people will be interested in watching this fight. On the one hand, I think that Tyson is unlikely to want to pretend in staged fights, so he will not feel sorry for Jake, but on the other hand, he may be grateful for the opportunity of such a fight and for the opportunity to earn such money, so his blows may not be so destructive, but I think he will want to defeat the blogger.

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I know he’s old but I really hope Mike Tyson wins this. I know the Paul brothers are great content creators, they are money making machines but they irritate me. They are not boxers, they are making a mockery of the sport.

So yeah, I am fully on the Tyson train. Hopefully he knocks Paul out.

Yeah, but the real boxing fans are not really the ones buying tickets/PPV for Jake Paul's fights (maybe this fight will be slightly different given Mike's status), it's the casual people who got dragged in by the internet hype + Paul's and his opponents' followers.
Getting more hate from boxing community will not hurt Paul, if anything, it'll be good for him. No such thing as bad publicity as they say. The only thing that could really hurt him is lack of interest and people just stop caring about him. But that won't be the case if he wins with Mike. If that happens, the natural reaction would be wanting to see Jake getting beaten up by someone capable - meaning more fuel for Jake's hype train.

I'm with you.  I think the age difference might be insurmountable and I actually like Jake Paul, but I tossed my money on Mike Tyson.  Honestly, I wouldn't even care who Tyson was fighting or how old he was.  I can't bet against him with what I've seen him do in the past.  Even if the guy only has 20 seconds of fight left in him, that should be enough.  Realistically, Jake Paul should easily win this fight.  I would have to burn my money if I won it betting against Tyson though.  I'll be keeping my fingers crossed for Tyson tomorrow night.  I want to see him go out with a KO victory.

Beating Tyson will give further boost on his confidence level to fight more popular boxers and it will surely increase his bankability in this sports. But I don't think he will be arrogant to ask for an exhibition match from the level of Pacquiao. He's not there yet. And Pacquiao has still a lot of strength to easily beat Paul inside the arena.

Look at the numbers involved, definitely, Tyson is also up for the million-dollar payout here. So if Paul wins, he will increase his net worth significantly. Most of professional boxers haven't reached that level yet. Lucky for him though.

Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson: How to watch the weigh-in and fight live, full card and more  (https://sports.yahoo.com/jake-paul-vs-mike-tyson-how-to-watch-the-weigh-in-and-fight-live-full-card-and-more-115516791.html)

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I broke down and got Netflix last night as the fight is just too interesting to me to miss. While I still feel it's a fixed match, I do hope they beat the snot out of each other a little and make it entertaining for all the fans no matter who they are rooting for. I'd really like to see Tyson win here, but I don't know if the contract allows for it to happen.

He had gotten a lot of hate already, when they started this whole exhibition fight during the pandemic, so I didn't think that he will be affected. Imagine the money that he is getting here, that could be the driving force behind Jake still continuing this kind of matches, and before we forget he had a company already also behind this promotion.

So he is really looking to win here, and for sure he wanted to beat the legend himself and obviously if he did then his stack will continue to go up and we don't know who is he fighting next for another biggest paycheck for him.

Mike Tyson slapping Jake Paul at the final face off seemed a little manufactured. If not, that weak slap doesn’t look good for Tyson’s odds tomorrow. I now question if the fight tomorrow will be staged to some extent or if Tyson is really just too old. I really hope he surprises me and knocks Jake Paul out, but I think his age and health might be too much to overcome.

I’m guessing it’s a staged fight, and Jake Paul will most likely take the win. It’s like picking the more profitable product, while Tyson is a big name, he doesn’t have long-term profitability compared to Jake Paul. Paul has bigger fights lined up, and a win tomorrow would boost his value even more. I’m curious how much Mike is making for this fight; it’s probably big enough for him to agree to take the loss and let Paul’s career soar.

Yes, that was a weak slap from Mike Tyson to Jake Paul, and tomorrow is a fight between the old and the young that I think Mike Tyson still has the strength to fight. Indeed Mike Tyson is very old but I think he still has the strength that might be able to beat Jake Paul, and Mike Tyson was one of my idol boxers at that time because I always watched Mike Tyson's fights with my father at that time, and I was only interested in seeing Tyson as nostalgia when I was a teenager seeing my idol. And I hope that Tyson's grandfather's punch can beat Jake Paul and make him fall and be unconscious. ;D

There are some boxing analysts similar to Teddy Atlas that have expressed their speculations on social media that this old Mike Tyson can knockout Jake Paul in the first 2 rounds. I am very much wishing we can witness this because Jake Paul has become very annoying. His face is annoying, his personality is annoying, he is completely very annoying.

In all of everyone's honesty, do you want the old former champion to have the victory or this very annoying young  man with the annoying face?

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I believe that most of the fans will be on the side of Mike Tyson and he deserved that, because Mike Tyson is a real phenomenon that turned the boxing world upside down and probably still the most famous boxer of our time and I want some of the glory to return to him now.
Mike Tyson has become a very modest man, ironically enough assessing himself and causing sincere sympathy, and unlike Jake Paul, but still even rooting for Mike Tyson, we must realize that it is Jake Paul who will allow Mike to earn 20 million now and maybe if everything goes well some more money in the future.
Nevertheless, we should really evaluate the chances and recognize that Jake Paul is not a bad boxer and considering Mike's age, the chances of Jake Paul are higher. I think the chances of Jake Paul winning are 70/30 if you evaluate everything without emotions.

I guess that slap is part of the show, to hype people towards this intense happening during weigh in. We don't see Paul response on what Tyson do so provably he know that Tyson would do that since this is part of their script.

But its undeniable that people will be on Tyson side in this bout since we lot of people know that Tyson is more experience than Paul. So I think also this exhibition fight will also be in favor with the Legend. Even though many people know that they maybe cannot see a intense fight between this bout  but still its amazing to see a Mike Tyson step on boxing ring again. I guess this is what his fans look forward to him and winning against Paul is just a big bonus to them.

You mean this video?

https://img.youtube.com/vi/scNgUkVxl2E/0.jpg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scNgUkVxl2E)

Not sure what to make about it, could be just part of their plan to sell the fight. We all know that it's their final face-off so they will have to make a lot of fuzz on it.

So it's possible that it is scripted, you seen Jake's reaction and it seems that he is ok. Although Mike really looks in shape, but I do not think that it will be enough for him to win the fight.

From your post, I understand that you are a huge Mike Tyson fan. Mike is doing this fight for money, Jake is doing this fight for fame, I think that the outcome of the fight is already decided but I wouldn't bet against Mike Tyson too.

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Did anyone watch Jake Paul's instagram reels? Seriously, what the hell are he and Mike Tyson doing? Kissing each other on lips? Why did they do that? Also, I today watched their weigh in and does anyone know why Mike Tyson punched him in the face? Was this staged? To be honest, I think that Mike Tyson is not doing mentally well and doesn't act like a normal human.
By the way, the match will start in hour and half, right? This is the case when I don't make a bet, I'll just watch whatever show we've got to watch. My heart tells me that Mike Tyson wins but my brain tells me that this fight is staged and Jake Paul wins (there is also a chance that fight is not staged and Jake Paul wins naturally).

It's only for the hype, and to add something to increase the hype, even his brother, Logal Paul tweeted something on X regarding the slap.
https://x.com/LoganPaul/status/1857267308734927056
As if we don't know that it's for the hype and they will do everything just for the fight to be hyped. Remember the McGregor-Mayweather fight? They've been throwing trashtalks here and there the whole time and that's what the fans wanted. Trashtalks between 2 fighters is what the fans made them excited to watch the fight. It's nothing different with this one, but this time, it's through slap.

Let's take note that these 2 acted like friends or at least it's a bit wholesome in their first face-off before Tyson got injured, so I don't know why suddenly, Tyson will come back with a vicious slap to Paul's face. I mean it doesn't make sense at all, and I'm not buying it.

A solid Tyson fan. :)
Let's see how this one will end, but I'll be going with Paul on this one.

He’s fine, and it’s all part of the show to get people talking - and they nailed it because here we are discussing it! Usually, the cockier one during the faceoff ends up losing the fight, so I think Jake Paul’s plan is to tire Mike out tomorrow and secure an easy win. But is it still the same rule as announced before? No KO, no winner, right? If that’s the case, I’m rooting for Jake Paul to knock out Mike to win the fight.

At the end of the anticipated fight, I can deduce that the fight will not be staged as Jake Paul would win naturally. I don't know whether Mike Tyson forgets so easily that a boxing fight requires natural energy and stamina, as Mike Tyson has lost both. Someone can beat the process of every other thing, but when old age comes, it's hard to beat that, to think that your physical strength and endurance will be the same as compared with a young vibrant man full of energy.

Its just part of their plan to sell the fight. Since people would get curious about that incident happen and it fuel up the interest of many people following this match to happen to watch their match.

For me its scripted since you can look at the face of Paul after that incident happen. Seems like he's fine after the slap. If its true and the intention is to hurt for sure there would be more force apply and Paul would provably heavily feel that.

Mike is in shape he practice for long months for this fight.

Also see the difference between their last practice

For Mike https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3GYpnxq0yA

For Paul https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FA_FgO815go

Tyson seems scary and still have power.

All I can say is that practice is way different from the actual fight, so I’m not getting hyped no matter how good he looks in training. What I know is Mike Tyson is already old and doesn’t have the same power he had in his prime, while Jake Paul is younger and has knockout power.

With that, I’d go with the stats, and let’s not ignore the betting odds. Bookies made Paul the favorite for a reason, so I’m leaning toward him for the win.

The latest Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson odds from FanDuel list Paul as the -205 favorite (risk $205 to win $100) to win, with Tyson a +164 underdog. (https://www.cbssports.com/boxing/news/mike-tyson-vs-jake-paul-odds-prediction-rules-date-props-nov-15-fight-card-picks-by-best-boxing-expert/)

We don't know yet for Paul, though he's younger enough compared with Mike it's not guaranteed that he'll will against him. The power on Mike has already a stablished record and it's really a huge history on him. That would be a plus factor regardless of his age, but this young man should strive harder to bear this legendary Mike Tyson.

Mike Tyson is old and tired but a real boxer/fighter... A real fighter is always the favorite, no matter how old he is, no matter how tired he is, no matter who he faces. If this fight is not a fixed fight, I think Mike Tyson will win... Some people say that Mike Tyson will be out of condition after the 2nd round, but this old wolf can put Jake to sleep with a punch at the right time and in the right place...

The slap was for real, he hit hard, I think it's part of the atmosphere of the fight, it's an entertainment event.

However, watching the training videos, it's clear that Jake Paul has no boxing skills, he seems kind of robotic, while Tyson is really scary, he's like a ferocious animal ready to kill... impressive.

I didn't expect that at the weigh-in, I'll say my opinion that Jake continued to fool around, and Mike definitely takes it more seriously, he is one of the best fighters of all time and it is clear that he does not like this circus. A fighter should show respect, and not creep up on you like Jake did, I think Mike's reaction is justified.

Tyson is not young, but I think that he will not drag out this fight, a few rounds and Jake is finished. Let him shout about it being personal as much as he wants, first you need to think about your behavior so as not to entail unexpected consequences.

He was one of the best fighters back in the day, but he’s also proven to be a versatile actor with quite a few movies where he is part of. Here are a couple of them:
1. The Hangover (2009) – Comedy
2. Ip Man 3 (2015) – Action

So honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised if this fight ends up being scripted as it's not exactly a new territory for Mike T.

The slap was probably scripted but with what preparations they have made in Texas, I believe they'll go all for the fight. The rounds are shorter and the gloves thicker. On boxing, all you hit is with your gloved hand and when the gloves is thick, the impact and pain are less. There would be nearly no chances of a Knock out. We could expect to see more of the technical side of game where they dodge and hit.
So, it would feel more like a scripted one even when not everything is scripted. The physical damage would be less while counting the points would be real. Who of them would win is a different topic. 30 years age gap and a respected figure, I don't think Jake Paul would go hard on Tyson.

There is no doubt that the slap was real, but still, the feeling of a performance aimed at the viewer does not leave. This slap just caused a new discussion on the network and again heated up interest in the event. There is no doubt that the fight was fixed, but I am sure that the show will still be and fans of both sides will be satisfied. Experience against youth, the viewers will definitely be satisfied, tomorrow I will watch it again, since in my region it will be early in the morning.

I'm not a boxing expert, but today I logged on to my betting site and saw that the odds for Mike Tyson to win are 3.0  :o
I'm about to take a chance and place that bet hehehe

I know that Jake Paul has won some good fights and even surprised a lot, but we're talking about one of the greatest boxers who ever lived.

There have been a few fights of this type that I've seen, and almost all of them, even the older ones, the boxers who were professionals won, it seems that they never forget how to hit

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They met in 1999 and today Friday November 15 2024. Mike Tyson is not a old man that Jake Paul will beat in boxing. And one thing is, boxing needs experience and endurance. So we will see who will win again today. Jake Paul has fought for three times in this year and this fight was scheduled in July 20 2024 but because of the health issue of Tyson, it was rescheduled to the 15 of November 2024 which is today.

The slap is intended to heighten the emotion and cater interest of the viewer.  I think it was scripted and I also agree with one of the reply that the fight will also probably an scripted one, and it won't be a surprise because the fight is supposed to be an exhibition fight although it was sanctioned officially due to the request of Mike Tyson.


True that in boxing having an experience and endurance is and advantage but the question with Mike Tyson is, is he as durable as he was when he is in his prime?  I think no.  So for me experience is nothing if it is not backed by the ability to receive punches from the opponent plus the limiting factor of being an aged man. An I think this is one of the main concern of Tyson's camp though I believe that a single shot can solve this issue since I also think that the punching power of Tyson is still there.

That could be the case because after all, it's an entertainment battle so there has to be a big gimmick in the end to make it worth the wait.

Because in the end we can see that just one slap at the weigh-ins creates a lot of traffic in the news which is certainly more favorable in terms of sensation because if you look at the current news headlines Mike Tyson and Jake Paul are clearly elevated in terms of popularity and the fight is currently quite anticipated by many people.

Speaking of winning  Im actually more inclined towards Mike for this match, it can't be denied that the age gap might be an obstacle in body fitness but in the end I will still be on Mike's side for the stakes in this fight.

Well, what can I say... Mike will get 20 million for the fight. You can lose for this money. I bet on Paul. Based on this logic, Jake is not a boxer, he is a talented media figure who promotes himself, and it would be stupid of him to lose even to a star like Mike for his own money. However, I can give counterarguments to this point of my own.:D
Therefore, my bet is still at random.

Action speaks louder than words, Jake Paul is good for thrashing talking but Mike puts it in a new level by not engaging in a thrashtalk and instead slap him in the face in front of the public.
Mike's action is far more disrespectful from Jake Paul's thrashtalking antics, I'm sure Jake is going to make pay for his disrespect, but can he do that to Mike Tyson, who is on top of the condition?

The slap video has been trending. Some say Jake was doing a monkey walk as a racial insult to Mike Tyson, others say Jake Paul stepped on Mike Tyson’s foot. I think it was arranged to create more buzz for their fight. I don’t have any expectations for this fight, everything about it looks staged and I don’t think it’s going to be a real fight. Jake Paul isn’t a tough guy and I’m certain he wouldn’t consent to the fight if he was going to fight Mike Tyson for real.

Oh that was a nice slap  ;D
Guys I have to say that Mike Tyson looks amazing for his age, and this slap was just a part of the show and mind games.
I think Iron Mike is in better head space now in the end of 2024 than when he was young and angry, but you need mind and body combination working perfectly to win fights.

I thought that slap didn't happen but an AI generated  ;D

I am not interested in betting on this match but this should be enough of a win for Mike. I guess he can lose the match tomorrow after all he already got a clean slap shot in their face off. They are all set already.  Tomorrow will be like may the best old man win. Either Stipe or Mike. Or both could lose in their last dance.

There was a video of Mike Tyson talking about how his feet is screwed up and from the video at the weigh-in we could see that Jake steps on his foot so Mike was probably in pain, which could be a good reason for it. I do not think that it would be to sell more, makes no sense to do something like that, whoever wants to watch this will end up watching it anyway, don't think that they will end up watching just because of the slap at all. But I do agree with most people who say that this fight is scripted most probably. I do not know who will win but do not feel like it will be a fair fight, to be honest. One of them is HOF, probably the greatest of all time boxer but at nearly sixty years old, the other is a YouTuber who is not even a boxer and fought a few nobodies. So all in all, I would guess that no matter who wins this fight, I am not sure if I will consider this as a legit fight ever.

Tyson and Paul did a face to face that is on Jake Paul's channel, and the way Tyson looks at Paul when he says he's going to win is an evil look, like a killer's, I was impressed by that and for sure Tyson will go in to win, the look of this man terrifies anyone. The fight will be at 10:00 pm here in my country, I'm going to order a pizza and watch Tyson crush Jake Paul.

And that's what we wanted in this fight, I mean leading to this slap, they are all respectful to each other. But Mike fired the first shot already and you can see that Jake's reaction that he was really surprised.

They interview Mike but it seems that he was really mad at something that Jake Paul did prior to the weigh in and face off.

But still though, this is just a exhibition fights and we should treat it that way. It could have been scripted for all we know just to take notice to all casual boxing fans that they should watch this fight and bet.

I'm not sure if that slap was staged or not but Tyson looked pretty fast with it and Paul couldn't even react.
People are saying that both of them are on steroids and I wouldn't be surprised by that at all. Mike Tyson admitted in the past of being on TRT. I don't think they will be subject to testing, although I might be wrong as the fight is officially sanctioned.

Paul looked visibly bigger than Tyson, but, as per their official weights, Mike was very slightly heavier, weighing 228.4 compared to Jake's 227. Anyhow, Jake's the heaviest he's ever been, so probably his speed and cardio will suffer a bit.

I believe bookies give Tyson slightly less chance than a few days ago, but still more than they did initially.

I can't help but be smart enough to know this is bullshit.  So I just smoked a fat joint, cracked a beer (hooked my kitty up w/some nip, only fair ..first time seeing that  :D ) .  I'm looking at all the bets available and there's a shit ton of them.  I think the most logical bet is a draw or Male Kardashian wins by judge decsion pt or two or whatever.  I don't know a ton about boxing, but you all know what I mean.

It's been a big point of debate here in the States. I think if it's legit Tyson fucks him up.  I don't care about age.  But we truly will  never know so I dunno.

Oh no… Drake bet on Mike Tyson. That is basically the kiss of death for Mike as far as winning is concerned. I’m impressed with this Netflix broadcast as far as quality goes, but there have been a lot of buffering issues so I imagine Netflix is seeing a lot of viewers at the moment. I don’t think I’ve ever seen Netflix buffering before.

It's been over 2.5 hours since the broadcast started and we're still waiting for one match, a women's fight match that nobody cares about. Even the opening ceremony took minutes and they still haven't started. Everyone is waiting and wondering what Mike Tyson is going to do. I hope Tyson wins this fight despite his age, but the leak scripts show that it's not going to happen. The last one leaked was a script that will end in the 5th round. Maybe they did it on purpose and the fight will end differently. And they will say look, there is no script. But I don't think it will be a fair fight.

It's sad that people give thus kind of freak shows attention, it will only make Paul do it over and over again.

It doesn’t really matter as the fight’s a professional one, so if Jake Paul wins, it’ll go on his pro record. That’s just how the business works, man. They can make millions out of these matches, and honestly, if people didn’t care about this fight, no one would be talking about it. Anyway, it’s all wrapping up today, so let’s just wait and see if Tyson still has that KO power to beat Jake Paul.

Yep your right but I would rather see Paul fight a ranked relevant fighter then old ex fighters so he get a real test, this is just embarrassing for all parts IMO.
When did Tyson fight a real fight last time? 2005? Soon 60... And with these gloves. Good luck.
Anyway hope you will enjoy the "fight".

It's always nice when a bet wins. I would have liked Mike to win, of course, but the real state of things suggested betting against him. Anyway, it was really nice to see Mike back in the ring after all these years. Of course, it's all a show, but it attracts a huge number of people.

Heheheh do not be angry, this is only entertainment hehehe. Everyone has already expected that the annoying face of Jake Paul is going to have the victory, however, everyone is also wishing to witness that this 60 years old Michael Tyson will knockout Jake and have his mouthpiece removed from his mouth.

But on creating his own boxing challenge show, Jake Paul has made a good business for himself. I cheer for his bravery and courage on moving himself to create something that much of the people in the world would like to watch hehehe.

Two things happened in this fight, first of all we have seen Jake was afraid of 58 year old Mike Tyson, and we have seen how terrible condition Tyson was in, and even at this stage of his life, he still looks such a beast that Jake wasn't sure about attacking completely, I have seen at least 4 times in the fight where if Jake attacked some more, he could have knocked out Mike, and just like the announcers were saying, Mike didn't look like he had his legs with him, so if Jake somehow dropped Mike, I am not sure if Mike could have recovered. But you know why Jake didn't follow up? Because this is Mike Tyson, and one wrong move, he could knock you out with a proper punch. In the end, it became a very boring fight, I agree that Jake did deserve the win, he was clearly the better one, but at 30+ year gap between them, I say the respect goes to Mike, he handled himself amazingly for a sixty year old dude, definitely kudos to him.

This was the most likely outcome to happen considering that Tyson is 30+ years older than Jake Paul.

But it did make for an entertaining viewership.

I guess we can consider Jake Paul a proper MMA fighter now, eh?

He should fight Mark Zuckerberg next.

A lot of fans blasted at Mike Tyson for slapping Paul Jake at their weigh In before the match, they sense Tyson was actually rude and downgraded Paul but I don't think any of those fans actually knew what happened that opted the slap.

However, Tyson slapped Paul for stepping on his toes at the match down of their weight in. So I think Paul was the rude one who downgraded Tyson then.
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He showed respect for Mike, even if the fight was scripted. Mike took a beating from the younger fighter, but the good news is he still finished the fight...an impressive performance for a 58-year-old legend. I think both are happy now; they got the payday they expected.

But honestly, I don’t want to see Mike going up against young pro boxers again. It’s not just him getting hurt, but the fans feel it too. It’s better to preserve the respect and legacy he’s already earned.

I've seen a Facebook post (Project Nightfall) from a famous influencer that I've been following, and he shared this takeaway of him:
I didn't watch the whole fight not because it's a boring match, but I already know who the winner will be right from the start. When they announced the fight will be happening, I knew who will win already. Kudos to Paul for not going all-out against an old Mike Tyson, but we all know that AGE IS A BIG FACTOR in whatever sport it is. Mike is unstoppable yes, but that was on his prime, and he isn't on his prime anymore.

Like you, I don't want him to fight younger boxers as well. He might've accepted this fight for the sake of money. I give my respect to both boxers still. Paul for respecting Tyson, and Tyson for going up there in the ring despite being old.

I watched the match, and it was as expected. I predicted free betting in the games round section. I like how Jake shows respect at the last 10 seconds of the eighth round, and it’s probably thank you to him for letting him fight

Is nobody going to talk about Mike Tyson's biting fixation? Maybe it’s just impulse. When Mike Tyson was being interviewed, he said he would still fight. I don’t think he was thinking clearly anymore; probably, he is still tired from the match.

Yes, but still though, at the end of the fight, he gives Tyson his props and probably thanking him for giving the opportunity to fight the legend. But it is what to be expected, Tyson is old already, and you and you can see that he has problems with his balance as well.


It's good that he just have to bite his gloves, instead of someone's ear. I don't know if you know that he bite Evander Holyfield's ear during their fight. If he will do it the next time, it's obvious that it is for the money. He has nothing to show, he is old, hittable and Paul crack him several times and very slow and has no power.

Did you see the women's fight though? It was really a war between Taylor and Serrano. But for me, this is the second time that they have robbed Serrano as I have her winning by 2 points. And Katie keeps using her head and there was a "accidental" head-but, that put a big gush on Amanda's eye.

There is no script, if there will be it should be that the fight will end in a draw. But it's obvious that Jake Paul won the fight as Mike as expected this run out of breath. You can see at the end of round 7, that he is breathing heavy and I don't think that he will go up to the last round.

He got lots of praises after the fight ends and there's nothing to prove anymore since many people know how Tyson fight before. Its just age slowing him down and we can see that he's not really fit to get more intense fight.

I have a feeling that Paul also restrained his self to attack more and create severe damage to Tyson since he still respect the legend. We see a good gesture coming from him since despite of him winning  over the legend still he show that Tyson is great and deserve to get a respect from him.

This also shows that Physical sports like boxing is for young people and even if you are good before you cannot bring it forever since your performance will decline just like what we have seen today on Tyson.

just saw the highlights and am glad I didn't watch it. in the highlights alone you can see how rigged it is, there was a clip in round 3 where Mike Tyson would have been knocked down if Jake Paul had continued punching, if it were really a real match, the boxer would have taken that opportunity to knockdown or knockout their opponent. Mike Tyson also barely threw punches and when he did it was either in the air or missed.

anyway, I hope Mike Tyson's ulcer or sciatica doesn't flare up after this fight, it might not be as intense as the fights he was in before but it would still be strenuous on his body, especially with his age and health conditions.

Event This boxing is more of a business event and not an event to find out who is the strongest, because we know Tyson's golden age is over. So when many people are excited to see Tyson win the match again, it will never happen. He is 58 years old and fought 8 rounds against a much fitter Paul. Will Paul become a legend after defeating Tyson? Of course not. Only Mike Tyson is a true legend in the world of boxing.

This is the general perception about the fight that it was rigged because Jake Paul, could've ended it with a convenient knockout on the legendary iron Mike Tyson. It clearly shows that age can limit a boxers ability to revive old glory because if this fight had happened during Tyson's glory days, I doubt that Jake Paul, would've lasted to the last round. It's still a win win for both fighters, the fight was for entertainment and they're surely richer after the fight. I still have respect for Mike Tyson, for coming back to the ring at his age, but if I were to advise him, I'd tell him to quit boxing for good.

Thinking of Jake Paul as a legend just because he beat an aging legend is way too much. Let’s not play games here...they’re just out there to make money off us. We watched the fight, and yeah, it was boring. So, when will we ever learn? We got hyped, we talked about it, but deep down, we already knew Mike Tyson should’ve stayed retired. He had no business coming back to fight a young, strong boxer. Some things are better left in the past.

The fight may not seem real to many, but it set a record of 17 million in ticket sales, breaking the record of 9 million set by Canelo. It says a lot about the state of boxing today if a 58 year old Tyson fight draws more money and viewers than the fights of today's champions.

People subscribed to Netflix to watch this fight and the number of viewers was so large that the service couldn't handle it and for a while there were even problems with the broadcast.

Tyson held this fight by some miracle, because six months ago he was almost dead and there were doubts that he would be able to enter the ring, but in the first round we saw the shadow of the 'Iron Mike', who was feared by everyone and even at the age of 58 Tyson was able to shake Paul and he even had to go into a clinch with him in the first round. I think that at the moment of Tyson's hit Paul was very happy that he didn't meet Mike 10-20 years ago, because everything could have ended much worse for Paul then.

As many people have already noticed for 58 year old Tyson was in great shape and this even with leg problems and after 3-4 rounds it was obvious that Tyson could hardly move around the ring, but still represents a danger.

Lols. Since that's what Jake Paul is all good at, he fights older people to make himself more relevant to the boxing world. Shame on him anyway.

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The picture above explains how the match started and how it ended.

Mike Tyson slapped Jake Paul for stepping on his toe, at the end of the fight, Jake Paul pays respect to the legendary Mike Tyson

That's crazy claims men, they are just over hyping Paul. They didn't see that he fight aged fighter. Even if we say those old man are legends still we could able to see that age fighter cannot perform so well just like when they are so young. Maybe they can only say that if Paul will find a good professional match that falls into his category. If he wins consecutively then create a name as great heavy weight boxer in his era then provably no one will criticize if someone call him as a Legend.

Its early for Paul to think about that situation. Since he didn't even reached at that level yet.

People would hate anyway. I personally loved how Jake Paul didn't went easy on Tyson. It's a boxing match he have signed for and he should do justice to the game. Scripting to let Tyson win or make it to draw might have been fun but would be against the spirit of the game they play.

I did not enjoy the fight, I think it was horrible. I have not seen anyone who thinks the fight was worth watching. The fight was scripted, Mike Tyson wasn’t even trying to hit Jake Paul. After round 2, it was obvious that the fight was a movie written and directed by Jake Paul. This is the outcome I wanted but it is certainly what I expected from Jake Paul and his team.

^^ Who would enjoy it? I mean the money that it has made here, reports of breaking attendance in a boxing match and so other sorts of records has been made. But at the end of the day, it was not that interesting, although most of us here predicted how will it end.

And as much as we wanted to see Mike Tyson win, his age really shows up, he gets tired, hit by Jake Paul and was out of balance and you can see that he could have problems with his knees as well. It's good that this is now over for Mike, and he can collect that cool paycheck of $20 million.

This is expected since an old boxer is involved vs a prime boxer. We all knew that this is just an exhibition match dedicated for entertainment just like WWE that the match is scripted to please the audience.

They already got the target hype for the match to be sold. I think some just expecting a real fight which is not the reality on this kind exhibition match.

Maybe Mayweather vs Pacman exhibition match will have a real boxing feels.

Apparently everyone agrees that the fight was a disappointment.
As expected, Tyson's gas tank got empty after two rounds, and many say Paul went easy on Mike in later rounds and wasn't really seeking for a KO.
Both got their paychecks and nobody got hurt, Paul's antifans still hate him (perhaps even more) and still want to see him getting destroyed by someone who actually can fight, which is how Paul's business model works.
Whether the flight was scripted or not, I don't know. I don't think it matters that much. It had not much to do with the sport anyway.

Age really weighed from the second round onwards. I found it very strange that Mike Tyson had stood still for a few hours. He seemed to be holding back so as not to attack and carry the fight to the last round. If Mike had won, it would have been the end of Jake's career.

I think that was the deal, Jake win but without a knockout. After all, even if it had been a real fight, there would have been no knockout since he was wearing 14-ounce gloves.

Mike was still and chewing on his gloves the whole time. Well, it was more of a nostalgic thing. The audience waited until the end for Mike to throw a more aggressive punch. Was that disappointing? Yes, but it achieved its goal, which was audience and money.

Not a disappointment, but rather useless fight, as nobody won anything except money. Jake met his legend, Mike showed that at this age he still looks better than most of people. They could have done it 1 on 1 or as a sparring, instead of making a show from it. Everyone learned again that you cant beat your age or time is your worst opponent. I would say that I did not expect much from this fight, nor we could get a lot from it. Just saw one more time Mike in the ring not as an event guest.

He should pay respect to the elder and for accepting this match. If it's not for Mike accepting this match, Jake won't have something to achieve today.

It was a disappointment. Tyson was clear that he's not aggressive and he's on defense whilst for Jake, he keeps on attacking but those punches doesn't look have strength and power. I admire more Tyson on that fight with his age and didn't KOed by Jake.

I think the best fight of the night was the women's fight even though I think the Irish/scottish chick was sorta cheating the whole fight. They went crazy on each other and were beating the shit out of each other the whole fight though.

They Tyson/Paul fight was blah at best. Wasn't really any super good hits and Tyson was showing his age. They probably shouldn't have been pussies and used normal gloves along with going with the regular 3 minute rounds, but all in the name of entertainment I guess.

Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur. The world wants to be deceived, so let it be deceived.

How many times should blind fans be fooled for them to realize the joke's on them for believing that Jake Paul is a boxer? Why can't they realize they're being fooled by a YouTuber? There's hype, there are serious talks, there are clear attempts to make it appear as though Tyson is the Iron Mike, the baddest man, and so on and so forth. Zzzzzzz. The point has always been that Jake Paul badly wants more attention.

But it seems the marketing totally worked. Jake will have his $40 million and Mike his $20 million, at least.

Betting on Mike must have been 90 percent of every gamblers pick, a lot of gamblers lost their bet yesterday because Jake Paul won the match. It wasn't a surprise that Jake Paul won and my reason for saying this is because he's formidable and young, Tyson is experienced but he's way past he's prime. Tyson found it difficult to accept his defeat it was totally unexpected by him. This means that the new generation of athletes are very skillful and we should be expecting a lot from them. Congratulations to Jake Paul on his win, mike was the toughest opponent he has ever faced.

The most entertaining moment for me was when Mike slapped Jake Paul in the face during the face-off—that’s probably his only "win" in that matchup. But  earning $20 million is a massive victory on its own. Even some of today’s top boxers don’t make that much in one fight.. Props to Mike for staying fit despite his age, which helped him secure that payday.

With that kind of money, he could take years off from fighting and still live comfortably - assuming he spends it wisely. It’s a well-deserved reward for his legendary status and dedication to staying in shape.

Maybe this net worth of his which is only $10 million will be updated soon.

https://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-athletes/richest-boxers/mike-tyson-net-worth/

I don't think many people were betting on Mike in his confrontation with Jake Paul. Most of the fans sympathize to Mike Tyson, but I think they were betting more on Jake Paul and everyone wanted Mike to at least be able to defend this fight on the feet until the end, which he basically did and that's really great for Mike.

So apparently everyone got what they wanted, and considering the sold out fees and tickets for the match, I think that commercially it was extremely successful.
You can compare Tyson's and Paul's fees with those of Bivol and Betterbiev, who got 10 million each, and that's still quite generous, considering that sheikhs usually don't skimp on fees.

Unfortunately, when Mayweather and Pacquiao have retired from boxing, there are no boxers in the world who can make a huge box office and really attract a huge number of fans.

58 year old Mike? the toughest opponent Jake Paul has faced? he should be ashamed of himself, fighting someone who is just three years younger than his father Greg Paul who is 61. Jake Paul will get a proper beating from someone his age. Mike Tyson should accept this as his last fight, he loves boxing a lot, and now should just maintain the line of inspiring the younger boxers, and becoming like a coach or trainer to them to pass on his knowledge and experience. This fight does not take away all the astonishing wins that Mike Tyson was able to achieve in his career, 50 wins in 59 Fights, 44 of those wins were KO wins for him. He is a hard hitter.

Because of the age factor, the power is different. Paul won over Tyson in a fairness but Tyson showed a good playing technique even though he was older than Paul.
What can I do if many gamblers lose betting because they believe that Tyson can win this game. For Paul, this game is an experience that will not be forgotten and he gets a lot of new strategies from Tyson.

Congratulations to Jake Paul.

I didn't pay much attention to all different adverts and promotion of this fight until this morning when i checked my X(Twitter), as the fight happened to be the trending topic. To be honest, I didn't expect much from iron mike tyson(as I prefer to call him),  considering his age difference between himself and Jake. But surprisingly, Iron Mike Tyson pull up a good fight. For a 58 years old to fight against someone he is almost twice older than, shows that he's still very much the Mike Tyson will all used to know, but nature just happened. I don't see this as a loss, because I believe everyone here knows very much that a 20 year old Tyson will knock out jake in a blink of an eye. I heard he got $20M, while the winner(Jake) got double, which proves that tyson was still everyone's favorite even after the game.

Is anyone calling Paul a Legend? That’s funny.

The question would be if Paul can even handle Tyson if he was younger and still at his prime? It was heartbreaking though. I really did root for Mike Tyson, hoping he could still beat whoever came his way. But now maybe that was all just hopium.

Still, this barely says anything about Jake Paul. He beats many more people that is on par with him and we’ll see if should he be in the legend category.

Age hinders us from doing what we used to do; the mind is willing, but the body cannot keep up; that's what actually happens in this match. I enjoyed the Taylor-Serrano match more than the main event.
Tyson earned $20 million on this match, not bad for a boxer of his age. I still consider this a milestone for Mike. I don't want to take anything from both fighters; they excite us, and at the end of the fight, its all about respect and trying your very best.

I watched some highlights on YouTube, and I don't understand why some people say it was a boring fight. From what I saw, it was actually quite interesting. I was really surprised by what Mike Tyson did. Even though it only went up to Round 8, the man still has the stamina to keep up. However, it's clear that Jake Paul was holding back his power. If he hit with 100% force, I think he might have felt sorry for Mike Tyson, considering his age. You can notice it in Jake Paul's gestures, especially in the last round, where he even showed respect toward Mike Tyson.

I'm not sure he has recovered fully but he couldn't let Jake Paul trample on his ego that's why he couldn't back down even though he wasn't a hundred percent. We all know that mike Tyson in his prime would knock Jake Paul out in less than 5 minutes. I watched the fight closely and I observed how slow mike was, age is really telling on him. He is a legend no doubt about that but I think it's high time for him to drop his glory days behind him and accept the fact that he's no longer the same fighter. Jake Paul won the fight, a log of gamblers must have lost a lot.

People Mike Tyson's age wear adult diapers, drink soup with a straw and can't find their way home. Mike Tyson is a legend...

I would have liked to have seen a better match but I don't care how he performed in this match. I watched him one more time and I'm happy. In a few years he will die and we will wish we had seen him box one more time...

I respect the legend. He made some money and now he will spend the rest of his life in a more comfortable way...

The fight wasn't scripted. Sadly Mike is old he is soon 60! What do you think he gonna hope around for 8 rounds?! And also they had too big gloves on them for something to happen. This is whats gonna happen 10 out of 10 times if an old man step into the ring with these gloves on, it doesn't matter who he was for 20-35 years ago. Time is taking out its right, that just how it works.

And lets be honest people that think the fight was scripted doesn't know a thing about fighting at all.

No one escapes aging. They know Mike couldn't last also. Even in his younger years, Mike slows down after a few rounds. His fights always end in the first or 2nd round. He has to end the fight as early as possible because he doesn't have the gas. 8 rounds is the longest fight he did with Jake.

It makes sense to have e at least a UD unless Jake wants to be the baddest villain in boxing to which he would if he KOed Mike. So yea this is a n exhibition fight from the start.

Lol people like tense fights so we should understand
where they are coming from ;) 

I don't think he can keep up to be honest, for starters the number of rounds was reduced from a 12 round bout to 8 rounds, time too was trimmed to two minutes to protect the fighter(Tyson) healthwise otherwise not a bad achievement  for many to watch the legend pull one more  fight...otherwise at his Prime Jake wouldn't last a single round 🥊🥊

The internet would have crucified Jake if he beat some sense into Mike for coming to fight at his age...overall good exhibition match and that Jake Paul's gesture was a highlight 👌  of the match in appreciating the man for all the memories in the sport..well played Jake.

Sadly Mike Tyson can't go back to his prime.  But yeah, it looks like Mike Tyson ran out of fuel during the fight.  Have you noticed how rarely he punched?  Tyson was moving well on the earlier round but almost stopped punching on the latter round.  Btw, it looks like that the slap before the fight was way stronger than the punches Tyson thrown in the ring, lol  :D.



Or was it Tyson who is holding back his power?  Probably both of them for they wanted to make the fight goes to decision.  Probably they think, in that way audience will feel that their money is well spent on the fight.

Despite of it all, I also like how the two boxers ended the match with respect. 

Notice how whenever Jake fights, always posts in social media (specially facebook) with "found secret fight script" appear :D It is always, if Jake wins - fight was rigged, if he losses - got beaten badly and humiliated (even though he wasnt knocked out or hadnt received any big damage). He has been boxing for already 5 years professionally, yet people see only rigged fights. Perhaps if he does shadow boxing, people would say it was scripted :D

Wasn't it obvious that they would start like this and end it with a hug.
I would say it was a good edit, but it wasn't, but both athletes earned more than their money, so they left the ring happy. By the way, even if it was in the edit, I loved that slap, man.

I can say that this is the boring boxing match, it does not match the audience's expectations at the beginning where we see how Mike wants to finish Jake Paul and vice versa Jake Paul wants to beat Mike. And I also expect that they can show something more than this, but unfortunately what we get is just two people hitting each other just for formality. Yeah I understand that this is to maintain the health of Mike Tyson who is already old, but it just does not match the expectations that they will show a boxing match that is really exciting to watch. But congratulations to Jake for winning - and Tyson for getting $20M USD, that's money that could allow him to relax for the next few years on his yacht.

Some fans online are saying the match was scripted by both fighters, well I've thought about it and i see some point in what they're saying cause if you watch Tyson's video online, he seems like a beast and a little more faster than what I saw against Jake Paul I feel maybe he purposely lost that fight to bag the money cause he really bagged a lot afterwards but on a second thought age can really tell on people and though Tyson no doubt have great punches he wouldn't have the stamina to last longer but he really tried and it's a shame on Jake that a 50+ man fought him to the 8th round, I believe if he were 10 to 15 years younger he would knocked Jake even before the 2nd to 3rd round however it was an interesting and entertaining match altogether and Tyson still remains a Legend and my boxing Hero, I careless if Jake won.

What exactly where people expecting from a fight like that? It was obvious they were in it just for the money. Otherwise which boxer will agree to fight a 58 year old man for real? From the day that fight was announced, I was not hyped for the game because that's what I expected. It's just a money grab.
If both were left to really fight it off, Paul would knock out Tyson. I get it that he's a legend, but he's almost 60, no way he'll be fast enough or strong enough. The kind of publicity around the match coins tell what kind of match it was going to be.

I was surprised to see that a lot of people were disappointed. I mean, there is no way Paul is going to allow Tyson beat him, he still has a career to protect. Tyson on the other hand is done, he's already a legend, so whatever happens, he literally has nothing to lose. In fact, he gets to work home with $20 million. That's smart business if you ask me.

Maybe I'm very wrong in my comment because I didn't watch the game, but I could see the highlights of the game. But even before the game I was already wondering why an old guy like Mike Tyson would fight again and the saddest thing is against a young guy. We're talking about a 58-year-old guy. All that ever came to my mind before this fight was that Mike Tyson would get knocked out in the first round and if he didn't get knocked out in the first round, then I would stop taking this fight seriously and I definitely stopped taking this fight seriously when I saw news that Mike Tyson lost but lasted many rounds. A young fighter, even if he's not a high-ranking professional boxer, not being able to beat an old guy of 58 years of age in the first round is something very funny.

Bingo!
I guessed the outcome exactly and won a nice amount from a single bet.
It was simple decision for most people that younger Jake Paul is going to win the fight, but odds on him to win by decision was amazing, so I took it.
Tyson injured his leg so he couldnt move in a good way for most of the fight, but he didnt want to make excuses because if that.
This was all just a moneymaking show for both of this guys, and I heard Tyson said he wants to continue fighting, maybe with Jakes brother Logan next :)

I didn't actually watch the match, I was a little curious, but after all, it's show business. When I look at some important moments, Mike Tyson still fought well, his lungs held up well in the ring for so many minutes. If we went back 10 years, he would have destroyed Jake Paul in a few rounds and knocked him out. Old Mike Tyson went eight rounds against a young boxer is more than enough to command respect.

This was the biggest boxing event of the year and the worst fight on the boxing history.

I can't believe how bad the fight was, I really was expecting some action from tyson but in the end o feel bad for him, he was scared and nervious as fuck, it's sad to see an old man scared like that.

Tyson trained hard for the fight and fans expected him to win even at his age, or it'll seem as though the game was rigged. Drake lost $355k betting on Tyson to win. I watched the last clip of the game, he was really exhausted and that's the effect of age. He defended his expertise as a professional gambler. However, I wasn't comfortable with such a feature. The old boxer should be left to rest. I saw the game as a form of entertainment, people wanted to see him fight,  and bringing back his name to the head lines is fine for a legend like Tyson.

Definitely an impressive feat. What most people do not understand that, by the late stage of his career, Mike was already a "bad" fighter, in the sense that he lost 3 out of 4 fights at the end of his career. His style of boxing was unmatched in history of boxing when he was young, up until he was like 25 years old, he was unstoppable and boxing world hasn't seen anything like that, but his style was something that grew very difficult when he got old, that much movement isn't possible for an older person, and this was about the fights 20+ years ago. Considering he is now 20 years older, and fighting someone who is 30+ years younger than him, even the feat of just staying up for 8 rounds, getting punched 80 something times? That's insane.

To me, the picture above explains how great Mike Tyson's cut was. I couldn't imagine if I ever see a 60 years old in such a great shape. From his cut, it's obvious that he lost lots of water weight instead of fat because the next day he was very full but still, such a loss of water weight is very impressive from such an old person, Mike Tyson is truly an Iron Mike.

It's a pity that Mike did it for the money. I mean, it's a shame for Mike Tyson to fight youtuber Jake Paul, he was a legend and should leave as a legend but I know, he has to take care of his family. It hurt me when he said that family is everything but for his kids, he is nobody. I don't know if this was part of the show or a real pain that came from his mouth but it really hurt me.

Tyson almost poop himself in fear... I'm black, but I'mma be honest, he's old and fragile! Right from the onset, I was against the fact that he wanted to fight against a boy as young and active as Jake. Some said it was an unofficial match that doesn't count towards either fighter's career, some said it was later made official.. I wouldn't know which one to believe anymore.

Jake laid out a few clean punches on the old man until he fumbled -- that persisted until he was able to give some of his, which ofcourse were still tough punches that would knock down an inexperienced boxer.. infact, I was startled that he was still able to do that match in the ring after 20 years.

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But we all know who iron Mike was during his prime -- a fighter that'd KO top competitors just in the first round?? Life's fucked up as everything changes in time.

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It was a damn joke of a match, Mike Tyson did absolutely nothing the whole time. What pains me the most is that all that training, all that pad work for months and months, all that sparring young guys and throwing tons of hard punches then comes real fight time and Mike stands there with his guard up doing just nothing. It was all staged because of money.
 Those people at the venue who spent a lot of hard earned money and the time to travel there, some from out of state are the onee I feel so sorry for all the most. It was a waste of their precious time watching two guys dance around each other doing next to nothing.

We didn't sleep all night and we couldn't watch the match. Netflix blew up big time. First the broadcast was interrupted on TV, then it didn't open at all on the PC. We tried to watch the match on a bootleg stream. I watched a little bit on Twitter and Twitch, but there were interruptions there too and I couldn't watch the match fully. I didn't miss much though, it was a very bad fight. I won't try to watch it again if there is a live stream on Netflix or streaming platforms, it's obvious that they can't do this job. Isn't it estimated how many people will watch this match? Why don't you prepare your infrastructure accordingly? Internet broadcasting has a long way to go. The winners of the night were Paul and Tyson, who made millions of dollars, and the losers were the viewers. The biggest losers were those who sat in the $2 million seats. ;D

Anybody that actually believed Jake Paul would be fighting a credible opponent deserves to get scammed. Most reasonably intelligent people knew that a 27-year-old vs. a 58-year-old was a complete farce and watched it knowing it would be a trainwreck. Jake is not a serious boxer by any stretch of the imagination, and Tyson is a grandpa with serious health issues. They wore sparring gloves and shortened rounds to 2 minutes. It was never going to be a real fight. The corrupt Texas commission only sanctioned it as a professional fight to squeeze a little more money from the event, but the expectation was always that it would be as real as a WWE fight.

I know that most boxing matches are like this, they start the broadcast with first fights, and you wait until the very end, to see the real fight. However, that didn't really made any sense at all for this one to be fair, this was a netflix show basically. The fact that seats were selling for 2 million dollars, and all Mike took home was 20 million dollars shows why it wasn't such a good idea to have other fights, just give their purse to Mike and Jake because that's the only fight people care about.

I understand in normal fights, like for example in heavy weight title fights, they do this because otherwise those other fights would not be watched at all, would be zero, but this was an exhibition one, there was no need for other fights at all. When the point is boxing world growing, then I would totally respect adding undercards, but when the point is some 20 something youtuber fighting a 58 year old hall of famer, then undercards was totally unnecessary and took us hours until the fight started.

Agreed. Jake Paul stepped on Mike Tyson's toes as an annoyance tactic and to cause a reaction from Tyson and it certainly was very successful for Jake Paul because Tyson slapped him hehehehe. This was only business to hype the fight for all of the fans. However, similar to much to other boxing fights, it was very much like a hyped ICO where everyone is very excited until the token is dumped on our faces with our mouths open hehehehe.

Also, I wish Jake Paul's next fight will not be against an old boxer. He should have a rematch against Tommy Fury, I reckon.

Totally that laughable into those people who had made out some criticism that Tyson was rude or downgraded or something similar into it but without knowing the whole story behind of such slapping.
When it comes on trying out to hype the fight then this is something which is really that very common aspect on which in every official fight or exhibition fights on which they would really be needing up for it to be hyped so that it will really be effective on selling out tickets on which this isnt really that new anymore. One of the reason on why i dont really like watching these exhibition fights
because of these kind of exaggerated kind of acts.  :D

@Koadharber. These type of exaggerated type of acts does not occur only on these types of boxing fights. It is being done in MMA and in real boxing fights. It has very much become similar to WWE heheheheh.

Also, the fight between Jake Paul and Mike Tyson was not only an exhibition fight, I reckon. The victory and the loss went to their professional boxing records if I am not mistaken.

To be honest I didn't wait to watch the fight, I decided that I would watch the result in the morning and if I wanted to I could watch it later on repeat. When I saw that Jake had won in the morning I had no desire to watch the fight, I just watched some excerpts, I don't know what to say maybe Tyson didn't have enough stamina, after all it's not easy to beat old age. And working on the paws is completely different from working in the ring, but in any case Tyson took his $20m, this is a great fortune to spend a decent retirement.

Netflix just blew away an opportunity they would have used to make millions of dollars from the fight between Mike Tyson and Jake Paul. I don't know why they failed to prepare for it, knowing fully well there will be millions of people all over the world who would like to watch the fight through their Netflix channels; let them partner with any established Livestream platform to stream the fight on their platform. Netflix failed in doing that, hoping that their server could handle the massive traffic of the fight, which it didn't, but had their server experiencing glitches, which would have been avoided in the first place.

There's one thing about getting something done and preparing for it. Netflix and the organizers of the fight didn't have themselves prepared for the anticipated fight. All they are after is the money to be generated from the fight, forgetting the simple things they would have done to generate more money.

However, I think buying an established Livestream platform is what Netflix would think of doing next so that there won't be reoccurring glitches in their server due to massive traffic that will generated like this, in the future

Netflix is not ready yet for this kind of event, but based on their stats, 60 million homes watch the fight, and with this record-breaking fight, this is not going to be the last type of event that they are going to host, and they will improve on their failure.
Many are disappointed with the broadcast, but Netflix has seen the massive appeal of this kind of event; maybe they will go through promotions of events like hosting  MMA and, of course, boxing.

'Record breaking' 60m homes watched Tyson vs Paul fight, Netflix says (https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8xpyg2lr28o)

With that record they get from Tyson vs Paul fight provably they would think about setting up their next big fight. But we don't know when and who will be the next fighter they get to make this plan to happen.

Provably they would think about providing better broadcast to people watching their future fights since for sure they learn from a lot from their first event. For sure lots of people is now waiting for the next fight they announce in future. So hopefully we can see famous name to have a comeback fight again.

Everyone should give Mike Tyson a great respect for running through full distance with honor. Not everyone at such an age is able to stay so active and perform so well against a much younger opponent. Moreover, huge respect for Mike to hold old the punches Jake Paul landed, and not falling into a knockdown or knockout. I feel like Jake did not pull all force in his punches, but those which have landed, did not even damage Iron Mike much. They have promised to give us show, that gave us a show, no matter the result of the fight.

Even until tomorrow I will still respect the iron man Mike Tyson for being so strong and for always turning up to come show himself and how much powerful he's got at age 57, watching him go head to head against a 27 years old Jack Paul I think he is indeed a great fighter. For the punches that Jack Paul landed on Mike Tyson I expected to see that and I wasn't surprised that the iron Mike Tyson did not see himself on the ground because that man is so powerful, I expected to see more good shows in the fight but at some point I was a bit disappointed because I still don't believe that Jack Paul could stand against Mike Tyson in a good fight if it is not staged but then it is what it is.

Bro, you're putting too much faith in Tyson. If that fight wasn’t staged or scripted, Mike Tyson might have been down for the count. You saw it, right? The legend was already running out of gas, and honestly, he was lucky just to finish the fight. But the judges’ scorecards don’t lie, a unanimous decision win for Jake Paul says it all. That alone proves it was a one-sided fight, no matter how you look at it.

I will still put faith in him if he's going to fight a real fight with Jack Paul again and again because I don't think Jack Paul is that strong to defeat him if the fight wasn't scripted. Hold on a minute, are you in any way thinking that Jack Paul punches can actually bring down Mike Tyson? I watched the fight from the beginning till it ended though I wasn't expecting what I saw because Mike Tyson is a great fighter I wasn't expecting Jack Paul to have dominated him in the fight regardless of their age difference, I have accepted the outcome of the fight but nothing has changed in my believe that it was not a real fight.

Not a bad fight, for a fighter aged 58, Jack kept him at a comfortable distance, so Tyson couldn't land his punches from close range. Towards the end of the fight it was obvious he was having a hard time, he didn't have enough stamina and he started to take more punches in the 7th round. Of course I would have liked Tyson to win, but the reality is that he was fighting a young fighter who was 27, which of course made the fight not very fair, but there were big purses here that they couldn't refuse.

It was more of the hype of this match but in fact the show was boring and did meet the expectations of many viewers. I think another reason was that everyone wanted to see Mike Tyson as the winner. Jake Paul is nothing as compare to Mike Tyson in the boxing world but right now Mike Tyson with 58 years of age cannot beat a young boxer and that is no fault of him. I am sure if he was young, there was no way Jake Paul can stand in front of Mike Tyson.

Rest many of us are saying that it was a scripted fight, even then the script was so badly written
>:(

It was intended to be a big hype match from the start, but we must realize that regardless, this is a fight between an influencer and a boxing legend who is almost 60 years old, so there is nothing to be expected in terms of stamina apart from the hype that is always raised to make the interest even bigger.
Although the match will be considered boring for some people but in the end it happens because of the hype that is too big and the high expectations that want a fight like a professional when from the beginning this fight is clearly an entertainment filled with gimmicks and drama.
But even so, seeing the interest shown and so much focus on this fight we realize that once in a while entertainment like this is needed and will be another opportunity for some people in business let alone gambling.

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btw off the track Drake lost big bet in this fight and I think if you want to do a bet then it would be more worth it to do it on the other side when Drake bet on something lol

I was feeling it was scripted. This was because Tyson looked so passive after the first round, or maybe, he was tired then stop attacking. But it was a boring game to watch, and it makes me think women's boxing looked much better than it.  :D :D :D

I'd rather call that as a show instead of a fight, but it's not entertain to watch an old man vs a young man. A fixed fight, maybe yes, may be no.  :D

I don’t what I was expecting a fight between 58 year old Iron Mike Tyson fighting 27 year old YouTuber turned boxer Jake Paul. The age difference between them is much, also Mike Tyson has reportedly suffered a serious health challenge this year that almost took his life. Mike Tyson was not in the best condition to be in the ring, even if his opponent is a weakling like Jake Paul. I think Mike Tyson just wanted to be in the ring again, winning or losing doesn’t matter to him at this stage of his life, he doesn’t have anything to prove to anyone and probably just wanted to have the feeling of being a professional boxer again.

When I saw the Drake bet, I was already sure Tyson couldn't win. Drake is a litmus test, whatever he does you have to do the opposite. ;D By the way, Drake doesn't lose any money, Stake sponsors him so he bets for free. If he had money from his own pocket, he wouldn't be making such forced bets all the time.
Getting back in the ring 20 years after he retired is an accomplishment in itself. Mike's legacy won't be hampered by this match. He just made some extra money, maybe more money in 16 minutes than we will ever make in our lifetime.

Did Drake bet on the fight? I didn’t know that. Truthfully, the Drake curse is something that bettors should take seriously if they want to win more bets.

The fight was fixed. I noticed Mike Tyson was pulling his punches, his training videos I watched pre-fight was a different Mike Tyson than what I saw in the ring, his aggressiveness was not there. I later read online that there was a clause in his contract that said he can’t knockout Jake Paul in the fight. If that’s true then it certainly explains the whole show.

Yes, he did, a cool $355,000 bet on Mike Tyson

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You can't say it's fixed, it's different when you train in the gym vs when you are in a moving target inside the ring. Sure in the training videos of Mike, he is aggressive, but Mike should not that punching bag are not going to punch bag. Just don't believed what you read. The odds will say that Mike has slim chances to win this fight. Everything is for the money here, Mike getting $20 million, or even higher, same with Jake Paul as his company MVP has partnered with Netflix to bring this fight. And it really didn't disappoint as far as box office record goes, everyone that is involved here had made their money.

Why did you not post that article? Or is it from a random guy comment that loses in the bet? If the fight was fixed, then Tyson should have won the match, or it should have been a draw to keep the reputation of both fighters.
Nowhere in the internet says its fixed; everyone is talking respect to Tyson for lasting a fight at his age, so we should not take the fight away from Jake Paul, The bout is what many analysts expected, because you cannot beat father time.

That is true, whether we're too invested in our physical health and we train our body everyday until we get old, our body are also going to age and the tissues, muscles, etc. Just like how it proves to be with Mike Tyson. But, if there's a real winner there, my winner is Mike and not Jake because of the courage that he had shown and despite his age and the huge gap between the two fighters. I doubt that Jake will do this when he's on the same age as Mike and his opponent will be his age now.

Unfortunately, the whole fight was just a show fight and everybody could see very clearly that Mike Tyson was holding back a lot. His movement was top for a 58 year old men and he had several chances alone in the first round to land a direct hit after the right defense, but every time he had a chance he throttled his punch and there is no reason for that in boxing. I would understand if he didn't hit his target right but not even trying is something else. For me, the whole event was just pure show and prearranged.

I agree and on top of that, nobody would post public videos that show how you look at the end of a hard training. It is of course all made in a way that it gets the crowd around the world pumped for the fight. The few short streams they published did indeed look as if Mike Tyson still is this aggressive unstoppable machine, but as you said as soon as he goes into the ring, things change and they change on many levels. A fight in the ring is tough and exhausting already, but you can't simulate the mental pressure and the excitement and the increased rest heart rate because of the crowd in the stadium and the expectations.

Everyone here who has had high pressure situations, may that be as a young person when you have to hold a presentation and are nervous or in sports, once the day is over you realize how exhausted you are. All of this combined really brought Tyson close to crossing his limits.

Though one thing I don't know. There might have been an upfront agreement that the goal should not be to punch Tyson as hard in the face as possible if the opportunity arises. He is almost 60 years old and I think this could mean a high medical risk. If he gets a punch with maximum force against his head, I wouldn't want to see how he falls like a chopped tree and hits the floor with his head. It's possible there was at least some agreement, but I don't think anything was fixed.

$20 million, I have read some news outlet stating that Tyson now ruined his legacy. I bet everyone who writes such lines would immediately agree to jump into the ring with Paul for $20 million. I can tell for sure that I would and I'd be fine getting wrecked.

he might have held back a lot but it was clear on the match that he was having trouble keeping up with Jake Paul (which is understandable), jake paul also had a chance to knockdown/knockout Mike Tyson in round 3 but he didn't. the whole fight was just a disappointing entertainment show, I wish no fight like this happens again. In the end, both of them walked out with a lot of money which is what they are really after and is the sole reason why this fight happened.

True. It was a sad event for both fighters I would say but at the end of the day I can understand Tyson of why he do it + the money really worth it for him. However , like you said above , his movements in the ring for his age was amazing to watch and you could felt it that he could KO Jake at any moment which he didn't and in the end the entire fight was a circus.

I disagree though that we might have write that down the Tyson has ruined his legacy. If he really understand boxing today, this fight is for entertainment and for the money especially that this could be Mike's biggest paycheck at $20 million. So we will understand where Mike Tyson is coming from.

But as far as him winning the fight, we all know that it's not going to happen as he is old and we can see that he had like a knee brace or something and that is a indication that he might be slow in this fight and that's what happen.

I know someone will say that we have been scam in this fight, and yeah, that's what really happen here, it's not that excitement as the women's fight between Serrano and Taylor.

Tyson had a health scare months ago, so I believe, it was not because he was holding back but his health really was not great to do some aggressive action inside the ring. Maybe, he didn't tell it to his fans before hand because they will know what can happen. And with that for sure, Paul knew his health condition, thus, not really giving Tyson a hard hit. Both parties knew the situation, the reason why we didn't witness a monster-like fight. I believe, they also pushed thru this fight because of the large sum of money involved. At least, Tyson's share can be used to his retirement and for sure, it is looking good now!

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 Mike's tweet  (https://x.com/MikeTyson/status/1857886940097556646)

However, what did everyone expect from the performance of Jake Paul? Did everyone expect that Jake will knockout Mike Tyson? I was honestly expecting this heheheh. But on watching the fight, I was thinking for myself that this Jake Paul is not a very good boxer, how can he knockout the Iron Mike Tyson who was a real professional in this sport?

I reckon this Jake Paul should fight a real boxer similar to Tommy Fury. Everyone knows already that all of Jake's boxing fights are only shows of comedy.

The rules of the fight ensure the boxers’ safety. With 2-minute per round and both fighters wearing 14-ounce gloves, the fighters are relatively safe. Although I’m not a fan of the fight, I still watched it to see if any untoward incidents would happen to Mike Tyson. Fortunately, nothing did. I believe there was no agreement to avoid punching in the face; Jake Paul was just hesitant, likely fearing a powerful punch from Mike Tyson.

No brutal combos and it looked like both were holding back to entertain everyone with longer fight until the final round.
Even though we all know Paul got the win, for me Mike Tyson is the champion because at 58 he was still able to fight well and was able to avoid Paul punches, even Mike Tyson landed some hard hooks, I was happy with the result without having to see Mike Tyson lose by KO and yes they both came out with lot of money and we were entertained by this fight.

I do think they downplayed the severity of Mike’s condition before this fight to help make it a big event. I feel a little bit bamboozled by the footage they showed of Mike training. He only had about 30 good second of fight in him and then it was just a show the last 7 1/2 rounds. Glad Mike got paid and seems to be ok now.

He had crack Tyson several times, I think if he just wanted to knock him out, he will go for it. But I guess he really respect Mike Tyson because at the end round 8, you can see him bowing. So it's enough for him to win.


He had called Canelo Alvarez, I think he sign his death wish there. If Canelo will go and answer him back with what he wanted to received to a fight, then it can be made by Netflix and MVP again. But we all know that Canelo is a real boxer and so Jake will have a problem with that. Unless there is a script that Canelo won't be knocking out Jake Paul and the fight will go for entertainment only.

Rather simply after the first round when Jake Paul missed a couple of punches, he realized that even such a Tyson is extremely dangerous and one of his punches even in this condition can send him to knockout, so after 3-4 rounds there was essentially no activity on the part of Jake Paul and at the end it was seen that Jake Paul in general respects Tyson and apparently really does not want to knock him out, although Mike still missed punches, but stood all these 8 rounds.
Mike himself described everything perfectly in his post and I like his attitude to this fight, despite the fact that many people call this fight fake, it was watched by 60 million people and not every championship fight is watched by so many people as the fight of 58 year old Tyson.

I guess let's not forget the fact that he had a near-death experience a few months before the fight happened. When that has been announced, I already knew that this would become a hindrance towards Tyson going all-in against the younger Paul. As for the "just a show" statement, we already know that it's just for the show. I mean we consider boxing as an entertainment and what's the purpose of entertainment? To have a show to the fans and to the people hence, the fight did just that.

As for the whole event being pre-arranged, I saw a Facebook post a few days after the match and with that post, it shows what both fighters will be doing all throughout each round. I didn't read it whole, but it's like "Paul will do like this" while "Tyson will launch forward punch, and Paul will move back" something like that. At that post, it's like the whole match is scripted at all. Of course, we don't know if it's true or not, but one thing's for sure. Most fans are a bit disappointed on the whole fight because that's something that they didn't expect, and both fighters ended up having huge money by entertaining their fans all around the world. :D

In reality, even lost, Mike still earned US$20 million in his pocket. This is not a real boxing match but an entertainment that just presents us in the midst of the current lack of boxing enthusiasts.

But it could be a blunder for Mike. he is a real g.o.a.t. on the boxing world. he is the same level with Muhammad Ali. but because he fights not for the title belt (but for money), people will consider him the same as Hollywood artists.

Here is what the numbers are for this fight,

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https://x.com/BOXINGnBBQ/status/1857568126319091975

So it's really a record boxing match, although some of the hardcore boxing fans here might not agree about Mike Tyson fighting a Youtuber. But as what we have said, it's for the money and we have seen a huge numbers that no boxing or UFC did make this year. So money wise, it's a big accomplished and I do not think that Jake Paul are going to slow down.

I guess this is what Mike targeting, he won't get that $20m outside of boxing so even if he lose from Jake Paul's fight he's still getting a lot of money from that fight. Plus he also gain praises or a lot more respect from people who's following his career since he withstand those challenges he face in this fight.

It didn't give bad effect to Mike's Legacy since people already know he's past status and no one can take that out from him just because he lose this fight. People understand that he's old and not capable to get involved with intense fight.

Mike joke around in interview and he said he want to fight Logan next. But I guess there's no promoter will gonna grab that statement since for sure there focus is with Paul now and maybe this is the last match of Tyson.

It was like Tyson said recently, regardless of the outcome of the fight ,he won, since he almost died during an ulcera crisis, having to receive 8 bags of blood and lost 11kg in the hospital,. Being back in the ring and enduring everything was practically a miracle, and he can give his children the opportunity to watch him step into the boxing ring again. Although the event was an exhibition, I think everyone won, Jake Paul, Tyson, Netflix and the audience that watched the fight all over the world.

Looks like Mike Tyson and Jake Paul both made millions of dollars from this fight. They did a good job promoting this fight. It wasn’t hard to achieve the attention the fight had because everyone wanted to see Iron Mike Tyson in the ring one last time and who better to put an end to the folly of Jake Paul than Mike Tyson. It’s a pity that Jake Paul was still standing at the end of the 8th round. The whole fight was like I was watching Rocky Balboa movie. The fight had a WWE ending rather than a boxing match. I don’t think this fight should have any impact on Mike Tyson’s boxing record, it shouldn’t even be spoken of in that context.

So here is the overall view points of the recent match between Mike Tyson and Paul Jakes.
At the kick point of the match, Tyson was actually taking a lead but I think since Paul was still a young and vibrant boxer, he actually stood advantage of that over Tyson.
Even Tyson himself never expected what he got from Paul but it was still cool to me because I supported Tyson to win.

However, Paul had also won my heart after pronouncing him the winner and then he bows to Tyson in expression to respect and gratitude. Yeah he won my heart because I was expecting he would feel too pompous of winning Tyson.                                 
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I don't really know the reason why Mike Tyson decided to return back to boxing after 19 years because he is 58 years now, and Paul Jakes is just 27 which means he is still full of life and energy while Mike Tyson is already getting old and his strength won't be like how energetic it was about 19 years ago even though he has two heavy weight championship to his name, his strength then and now is not same again.


Paul Jakes bowing for Mike Tyson was just a show of respect considering the fact he fought with a great boxer so regardless of the fact that he won Mike Tyson, he knew it wasn't easy for him as the points was almost so close.

Unfortunately I didn't know this from the beginning and only found out when Mike lost the fight which made me lose the moment to go against the flow of what Drake did in his gamble in this fight :D

Drake's curse still continues it seems because it is undeniable that when he bets a lot the same thing always happens where he always loses the bets he makes.


He's betting big because he has no less than $350k on the line in this matchup.

Talking about fixing or not I won't say this boldly that this was a set-up, but from the very beginning of this match we could already tell that in the end this was a match with hype raised for profit. Regardless of who wins and loses in the end both sides benefit greatly from this fight.

After Mike it looks like Jake Paul's target is McGragor to create the next hype :D

https://x.com/jakepaul/status/1857793540790555111 (https://x.com/jakepaul/status/1857793540790555111)

Let me share a reason why. It's because of money. I mean Netflix is a huge streaming service and a fight that involves the legendary Mike Tyson would automatically generate a huge revenue. Of course, Tyson will not accept the fight if the monetary offer is not as attractive as he truly worth stepping back to the ring against a much younger opponent. Even if it's just an exhibition match, it will probably put Tyson's health at risk if they did not put a limit to this fight. Everyone thought that Tyson's slap before the fight was even harder than any punches we've seen in the actual fight lol.
So, Mike, Jake, and Netflix all won in this match.

The fight wasn’t an exhibition, mate. It was a sanctioned bout by the Texas Boxing Commission, so the win/loss will reflect on their records. But yeah, I agree that the slap was even harder than the actual punches Mike Tyson threw during the fight, lol. Considering Netflix’s extensive global coverage, that fight probably generated a lot of money.

Your argument does not answer the question. He can knockout Mike Tyson but he did not do this because he respects this old man? This is your argument that Jake is a good boxer? Why he cannot win against Tommy Fury who is not a very good boxer?

He called Canelo Alvarez because Jake certainly knows Canelo will not answer hehehehehe. If Jake is in the ring with Canelo, he would receive an uppercut that will fly him outside of the ring hehehe.

I didn’t get to watch the match on the day of the fixture, but I got the chance to watch it afterwards, and honestly, I didn’t think Mike really wanted to win that match, because he barely threw a punch, don’t know if it was due to his medical history as you said, or if there was some other reason to that, but I’m pretty sure that wasn’t the Mike Tyson I know who stepped into that ring. Some people who share the same view with me, thinks or believe the match was fixed/rigged/scripted, whatever. I don’t know about about but I know that for some reason, Mike wasn’t himself in that ring, something was definitely holding the iron Mike back.

I think Tyson thought about accepting to challenge Paul so regrettably just after he has been defeated by Paul.
If not for the historical influence Tyson has built of the past, no one would have that thought to fan Tyson on that match so then, I came to understand that Paul was the one being underestimated believing Tyson would beat the small boy out of him but reverse be the case.

I tag the vision of Tyson to had accepted that match in the first place to be insane of him. Perhaps, he would had just accepted the fight to be a friendly and entertaining fight just to keep fans up to that that he could still stand still on the ring despites his age Instead of boldly boosting out there pulling muscles like back in his days like he could dismantle Paul without undermining the age differences.

Tyson is 58 years old and he have $10 million net worth. Accepting this fight would able to give him estimated $20m - $40m revenue, so its no brainer that Mike would accept that fight to extend his needs.

We see a total decline here. But there's also doubts in my mind that this is scripted fight and they make everything in favor with Paul. Since we see how the fight goes on and that is not Iron Mike Fighting style.

But anyways since everything is done I guess people should deal with the result. Tyson still win a huge pay check in this fight.

I watched this legendary fight. Tyson showed himself at the highest level at such an age. I am even surprised that he was able to last so many rounds. You have to give him credit. The man is a legend. There is nothing more to say. But Paul should be more modest. He looks more like an upstart.

Yes, no one argues with the fact that all this is part of a PR campaign. There is simply no way around it. I am interested in another question. Why did they pay Mike half as much? Doesn't he deserve more?

Lots of people are sharing videos on instagram and tiktok where it was scripted because Mike Tyson pulled his punches. The proof is that they are using two video, where in one of them mike is like 30 years old or younger, and he counters very well, whereas with Jake he doesn't counter at all. That's not pulling your punches but that is literally getting older.

Mike Tyson is 58 years old, yes he could still one punch knock out Jake without a trouble if he could land one power punch I still believe that, but at the same time this isn't really a fight like that, Jake is like 26 years old or something if I am not wrong, so we could safely assume that Mike wasn't pulling his punches, he was just not fast enough due to age and he couldn't hit back like he used to. That doesn't mean that it has to be scripted just because he couldn't fight hard, dude is 58 years old and just made over 20 million dollars for this, that means the best situation to be in.

After the fight, Tyson said that he was not in good health, he was in a difficult condition when he had several blood transfusions, actually, when a 27-year-old guy fights even with a champion, but who is already 58 years old, then you shouldn't expect that Tyson will be able to move in the ring as well as he did before. Yes, he received a good fee, apparently this was a big motivation for him to train, and he said that it was very difficult for him during training and he said that he asked himself why he agreed to this.

Drake betting Tyson is funny but also I would have done the same had it been a totally normal boxing match up.   Obviously its a boxing match done for views and so it makes it harder to judge and bet on.   

You can see who should have won by the first couple rounds because Tyson was far better there.    Tyson is old but his classic fights it ended fast and 2 rounds is enough for him to take it.   For whatever reason he didnt take or get that shot and so Jake Paul gets the win on points over that many rounds, I was at that point guessing it would end a draw really.

Picture makes no sense, as all those grandpas and grandmas are not athletes. If they were retired old martial artists who were champions or were on hype in past Jake would throw down a challenge :D

But you people make fun of Jake incorrectly. He isnt challenging pensioners. He is challenging anyone who would bring him money. Whether it be Canelo next, or random guy in the mall. If people are ready to pay for watching it, if sponsors ready to pay him millions, he will fight anyone.

Perhaps it was the sarcasm in that picture, that Jake Paul only fights those former boxer or UFC fighters that are old and senile.

And since you mentioned Canelo and he called him out, maybe that will be the plan because I do not see anyone bigger that Mike Tyson that can bring that money to Jake Paul and Netflix. But Canelo is still very much active as a pro fighter, he still the undisputed MW champion so I doubt that he will just go ditch that out and fight Jake, unless their will be offer in Canelo table's that he can't refuse.

I'm not sure what you meant, but Mike Tyson received a whopping $20 million in this one fight alone and this could be his biggest paycheck for all we know. Yes, he did last for the whole duration of the fight, but if you look closely, his punch output is going down after round two. So you can deduce that he is tiring, and tiring very quick and fast because of his old age.

Yes, we give Mike his credit and due in this fight, but we all know that he is not going to win against a young fighter in Jake Paul. Others including me are disappointed as there are no more actions in the ring between the two.

If you knew that old is not going to win against young, why are you disappointed with the result? Either you wanted to Mike to be knocked out after being exhausted. Or expected a top high speed performance from an old man. Even though the fight was claimed to be a professional, with special rules, it still looked like an exhibition with nuances. From my point of view, the idea of this fight was to see legendary boxer once again in the ring, then to see one boxer is devastating his opponent.

We can't take away people from being disappointed here, if you look at the thread, majority wanted for Mike to win this contest despite his age. He is sort of the sentimental favorites and we almost believed that. Because during the pre-fight, we've seen in the videos that he is working very hard and we thought that, "why not, maybe he can still pull the trigger here".

But that the back of our minds, we all know that Mike will get tired and that's what happens here. And during the fight itself, there is no round that we thought that Mike can win. Yes, rounds 1-2 we score it for him, but there are no movements at all, that spark inside the ring that fans are going to remember in this fight. That's why there are a strong sentiments that this is a obvious set up, no knockout win by either side.

The interesting part that made people confused is that we have seen Mike train before this fight, we have seen him punch bags and such just like any other training. However, we haven't seen him try to hit Jake like that once. I once saw him hit a punching bag so hard that I felt like Jake would be taken to hospital on a stretcher, those videos made people confused.

Now of course, Jake is not a punching bag and he moves around and had the reach advantage, but that doesn't mean that we are going to see Mike be any bad. People just wanted to see Mike hit Jake once like that, all those videos were good but they had to mean something and if they were to mean something then we would really end up trying to figure out how to make this work somehow.

In the end, reaching to a new level of entertainment means a rematch would be great. Surely people got bored on this fight, but it would still be a lot of money for a lot of people without a doubt.

The fight was boring and the transmission over Netflix was terrible, we do not need more of this, I really hope that people realize this was a scripted fight and nothing else, and how they should stop giving so much money to people that do not deserve it, because as much as Tyson was such a good boxer on his prime and that I can understand he is nowhere near that level at his age, it is difficult for me to believe that this is all what he could do against an influencer.

Yes, tons of people or boxing fans or even to those bettors who did make out that huge bet into him and on how this exhibition turned out. You could really be able to expect that there are tons of people who do expect that Mike would be able to win up the fight but ending up on the opposite thing. It is really that staged in the first place. Arent people aware of this stuff? It did really just that turned out that it was really that too obvious on what Mike is really that doing. You could be able to see those tons of opportunities on making up some jabs but ending up on having those kind of weaving movement and not throwing punches at all. hahaha. You could be able to spot out that there are tons of chances that he could be able to knock out that Jake paul but since we are talking $20M for the show then he just cant.  :D

I have read many opinions about this boxing match and people say that it was scripted, that it was done to make money etc. I will not say anything about the possibility of the match being scripted and I want to look at it from a different perspective. It has been a long time since I have seen a situation that brought people to the screen and made them wait for the match with excitement. People and the history of sports need such beautiful moments.

There are very few moments when people experience such excitement together. This match allowed people who have never watched a boxing match in their lives but know the name Mike Tyson to come to the screen and watch the match.

If the goal was to make money, it was won. If the goal was for the match to end without one side being knocked out, it was over. If the goal was for a large number of viewers in the world to watch an event at the same time, it was successful. In my opinion, the match achieved its goal.

I've added a poll to check what's the dominating opinion on whether or not the fight was staged.

I honestly cannot tell. On one hand, I wouldn't be much surprised if it was, given the shady business model of Paul's boxing enterprise and the rumours relating to his previous fights regarding strange clauses and NDAs. On the other hand, Paul was a favourite anyway and perfectly capable of winning against a nearly 60 year old Mike. He knew that all he had to do was to avoid brawls and that time was on his side as Mike didn't have much in his gas tank.

Anyhow, it's over now and hopefully we can focus more on real boxing fights.

Can't take out those possibilities since after all they cannot get anything for more longer times with Tyson as he is an aged fighter. So compare if they will let everything will be in favor with Paul for sure more exhibition or either professional fights to come since he is still young and capable to do what he want.

We may not disclosed anything related to rigged or fix match, but I guess lets leave that what it is. fight already end and so far both parties including the fans still satisfied on everything what they see.

I guess that's the purpose since after all this is only a exhibition fight.

It wasn't though. The fight was a fully sanctioned professional boxing match and the results are now included in each of their records.
You can see it here:
Mike: https://boxrec.com/en/proboxer/474
Jake: https://boxrec.com/en/box-pro/912383

And since Mike came out of retirement, he's now again included in the rankings: Ranked 80th in the US and 311 globally.

I would say that it is not stage, both have their strategies in the ring to win. Mike Tyson as expected, started very hot in the first 2 rounds because as what we have say, this is the perfect opportunity for him to win the fight because he will by fresh in the first 4 minutes of the fight. And we did see Mike crack Jake Paul, but Jake just eat the best of what Mike give to him.

And if you look at their corners, specially on Mike, they try to motivate him and hope that at least one ounce of Mike's strength is still there to score a knockout win. Besides, they have really a good corner and you can see familiar faces. If this is stage they could have hired someone and not a week known trainer of cut person.

Hehehe everyone appears to be in similar argument because it also very much appears that they only consider Jake Paul's fights as something similar to a comedy movie. He is collecting the money from the fans, however hehe. He is also gathering much of out attention.

However, similar to what I have mentioned before, he should have a rematch against Tommy Fury. If he will have the victory on this, he will certainly become more annoying and this will bring him more offers to get more money hehehehe

I'm surprised that Mike agreed to this fight. Why would a man of his age enter the ring with a young opponent? It was clear who had the advantage in strength and endurance.

He got tired in the second round. Would you have lasted that long at 58? Now that's what I call willpower. Not everyone can do that. There's no point in even thinking about it. Even for me, Tyson won this fight, not Paul. That's how I see it. A difference of 4 points? That's just ridiculous.

That's just a video that Mike Tyson had for himself when he was training in a particular spot without having anyone come to challenge him, to have him move around to throw some punches or receive punches at the same time. There's nothing that weakens someone like that, than when they stay at a static position for some minutes to box a punching bag. In a boxing fight, a boxing opponent wouldn't allow his fellow boxers to punch them without giving them the tough time to stress them around to punch them at the same time in the ring. Which can exhaust their energy.

That's what Mike Tyson gets to see in his fight against Jake Paul. Jake Paul didn't allow himself to stay as a punching bag for Mike Tyson. First of all, Mike Tyson went through the stress of getting moved around by throwing punches and receiving heavy punches from him, which resulted in Mike Tyson's energy being drained out of old age to carry on with the fight

I don't know why everywhere i am hearing that people are curious to know Jake Paul next fight will be with whom ? I know it is sarcasm as no one seems to give credit to Jake Paul on his victory over Mike Tyson and it has become quite controversial. By the way, I wish he plays with some young boxer next time and hence he will know his value then.  8)

Who will be Jake Paul's next opponent after his win over Tyson? (https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/other/who-will-be-jake-paul-s-next-opponent-after-his-win-over-tyson/ss-AA1uqJp6?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=dcc8c6ed8eb04ff786af11afb7ec1e4c&ei=11)

It was from this match I knew that anything can be fixed. I was so surprised the way Mike was behaving in the out has if he has no hand to hit his opponent, Jake Paul. The match was very disappointing to see the shits that are going on in sports. He was paid exorbitantly to lose the match and I know he was happier to receive such a fortune. Maybe he forgot that his past history had been tarnished with a token he was given. I know many boxers will do the same thing, losing great match that was supposed to increase his rank as one time king of boxing. Many gamblers lost huge amounts of money from the match and casinos made money from us.

What I meant to say is that there should be at least some fan fare in the fight, maybe have rounds that either one of them is dominating to bring cheers from the crowd. So just imagine if you bought tickets that are pricey, but there is no fun in it except for the ladies division.

Of course, this is still a exhibition match, although they change the rules, to make it looks like a professional fight which is not.

Needless to say, it's now over, fans got what they wanted to see from the legendary boxer, and then Jake Paul moving along to have another fight with someone.

So Mike Tyson's coach latter asked him (Tyson) to go back home for his family after being defeated by Paul.
The coach was remorseful in regards of Tyson's age but think he is skeptically disappointed of Tyson lost after training him against the match for 7months.

Quite a hmm... because there must surely emerge a winner in a match as much as this one.
Even the young Paul confirmed his sympathy on Tyson not capable to conserve stamina to fit in the total rounds for the fight and also confirmed that he was concious not to leave Tyson with unnecessary pains by the end of the match so he could enjoy his going back home.
This one though cracked my ribs. Lol.
Incredibly... Tyson admitted a honest defeated by Paul.

It might be a very disappointing thing for his coach, who really works hard for the last 7 months to train him and to get a big win. But I guess as what we have seen, his age has caught up with Mike Tyson. And we all know that Father time has been undefeated and will not be defeated.


We all have our post fight analysis, and we can say that we pity Mike Tyson for getting this fight. Nevertheless, it's the money and for sure when he gets back to his family, even at defeat they will find to celebrate as Mike will come back home with a big $20 million paycheck in his bank account. So we can say that there could be pain, yes, but if you look at the money that he will be getting, for sure that is a big compensation already for him.

Mike got more fit thanks to this fight. For a person his age, that is only a benefit. Much better than smoke, chill and wait for an old age. Mike earned 20 millions. Mike gained more or new audience for his podcast. Proved that he still can show and teach young boxers. Did not get any serious damage. I see only benefits from this loss :D

Very disappointing indeed on which you could really be able to say that this wasnt really that a fight at all. You could see up tons of opportunities on which Mike could take down Jake but ending up on having those half-way punches and obviously trying out to avoid on hitting up hard Jake and finish up the fight. For exhibition fights then those fixing type of thing isnt really that shocking or surprising at all, and thats why when i have seen on how Mike did make such move then i did really actually laugh and tell to myself that this was really obvious that this fight isnt really supposed to take down its opponent but rather trying out to make out some drama to make it last for long rounds and as if they do really give out that value for the money into their fans that watching.

On side note: Drake loses $350,000 on this one. lol
Canadian rapper Drake wagered $355,000 on Mike Tyson in his fight against Jake Paul, which took place on November 15, 2024, at the AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.
Known for his sports betting, Drake backed 58-year-old Tyson in his return to the ring. However, Tyson lost to 27-year-old Paul by unanimous decision, resulting in Drake losing his bet.
source (https://www.beinsports.com/en-us/boxing/articles-video/drake-loses-355-000-betting-on-mike-tyson-2024-11-16)

It baffles me how most of you don't realize this was a scripted fight from the start, with all of the drama, Jake stepping on Tyson during the face-off, the slap and all that. All of the drama you're watching is intended to make individuals like you believe the whole thing was real. Lol Tyson has already retired, and Jake was always going to win to bolster his career.

Getting $20m to lose a fight is a lot for someone who was already in debt.

Is this Drake really gambling with his own cryptocoins? This appears for me very much similar to these influencers in the cryptospace or in streaming services like Twitch who are being given some tokens to gamble and shill on social media heheheh.

In any case, yes if he is being given be the sportsbook to gamble than this would be a very good marketing tactic to use on us small minnows hehehehe.

I'm wondering too, despite that Drake has made so much money that $355,000 could mean nothing to him, I doubt if he would want to Bet such amount of money of his personal money just in the name of wagering on a 58-year-old Tyson on his return to the ring.
$355,000 isn't just a chicken change to throw around though it might mean nothing to him, but this seems to me more of the streaming service stuff to draw more attention, and a marketing strategy.

This was only the May 2024 report, and the man is still making a lot of money. Not every wager he makes is posted online, but only on key events to draw attention and express support for the company. Although it is still unclear if the funds are put by Stake itself to attract attention, without any proof, we can only speculate.

Total Wins: CA$106.3 million ($79.1 million)
Total Losses: CA$46.1 million ($34.2 million)

 reference link  (https://www.casino.org/blog/drakes-latest-bets/)

We can only speculate, but we all know that Drake is one of the richest rap artist as he had multiple hits and most likely he will be in crypto already specially that he is under Stake which is one of the first crypto base online gaming platform.

It's no surprised as he has been under Stake for many years now and most likely it's already a win-win situation between the two. And then he had been streaming with Stake as well so it's really hard not to doubt that Drake can put up that bet on Mike Tyson.

But then again, it's the Drake curse so he will continue to lose big money.

I don't know about that. Financially, it was a great move indeed, but sports-wise, not so much.
The rumour emerged that the fight was fixed and, allegedly, there was a leaked script describing how the fight will go (it wasn't very accurate but was close enough). Whether it was real or not - I don't know, what I do know is a lot of people have lost a lot of respect for Mike.

Perhaps what he is referring is that physically, Mike was able to get into his best shape of his life at 58 years old. He had to trained for months, go to the boxing gym and then sweat it out for this fight. And then at the end of the day, getting millions, so financially it was really a good move for him.

I don't know if has concerns with his legacy as we believed that he had cemented it already when he become the youngest Heavyweight champion. But time has changed, boxers now are after the money. And that's why it was a easy choice for Mike to go on with this fight. Maybe there are people who lost respect of him, but at the end of the day, people make their decision on what's best for them.

Oh I would love to see what the allegedly script are, but there are video circulating that says Mike Tyson is not really pushing himself in the fight and he was just trying to go to the motions of the fight. But we've seen the he was really tired going into the last round and I thought that Jake Paul might take that advantage and knockout Mike for good. But it didn't happen and maybe that could be one of the scripts as well that there is no knockout win. But in a any case, yeah, a legend like Mike should have pass this one, but the offer though, $20 million, it's one and done opportunity.

Yes, there are a ton of videos that are in circulation where it clearly shows Mike was in better position to knock out Jake but he didn't. He earned 20 million whereas Jake took 40 million. Do remember that Mike Tyson is a professional boxer and he is not even in his 60. He could have easily defeated his opponent but he didn't, suggesting that the match was already fixed.

That's really off and many people call out that's not how Mike style. He usually do counter punch but in this fight with Jake Paul those what people expect Tyson will do didn't happen.

This is one of the reason why many people think the fight is fixed in favor with Paul since there are many times seen in the video that Tyson is capable to get the head of Jake Paul in that fight. But guess everything ends and people still got entertain and somehow satisfied with what they see in this match. Provably next time many of its past bettors will not gonna place their bet on Tyson again since provably what they see from his last fight is enough for majority of bettor not to trust them with their money again.

Or we are still fixated on the fight itself and now still debating whether it was stage or not. Fans are still divided if it really scripted or not because that's not what a professional fighter act.

But so far all we have is pure speculation, that's why I believed it is not scripted otherwise, I will change my stance if there are really solid proof that there are scripts and then people behind the fight have sign a NDA.

eh, even if all we have is speculation the chance of it being scripted is higher than it is not. we have seen so many boxing matches that we know there were so many chances where both fighters could land a knockdown/knockout punch but didn't and if you ask me, the only explanation for that is the match is scripted.

It wasn't scripted. It might as well have been an exhibition though as Jake was obviously taking it easy and Tyson probably just can't go full hog for more than a few minutes. Jake did throw a few huge punches that narrowly missed and it wouldn't have been pretty had they landed so I'm not sure he was pulling them all.


No. The bets are bullshit and it's obviously part of his promo deal with Stake.


That "script" was bullshit. Anyone can write one up in ten minutes and post it on the internet. It might have been somewhat believable if it was posted before the fight and everything went to plan as per the script but nothing on the "script" actually happened.

That's why we said it was scripted; Jake could have easily knocked him out before the second round, but he held back to entertain us for 9 rounds, making the entire fight appear tough. Tyson is older and unable to take as many punches as Jake.

Both boxers are banned for 24 days for the shit show  (https://www.themirror.com/sport/boxing/jake-paul-mike-tyson-suspended-819088)

No, it is not speculation there are tons of videos on different social media that prove that the match was scripted. A professional boxer like Mike Tyson does not lose to an influencer who just fought his first professional boxing. If you do a search on YouTube about this fight you will see how and why it was scripted. I saw the first round of this match and then I stopped as the match did look like a scripted one.

For me though it is still unbelievable that this has been scripted. But if you go with the argument that a professional boxer like Mike should not lose, you have to think about his age though, he is very slow obviously in this fight.

First one, I didn't see anything except the fact that we are expecting him to be in that best shape in this fight in the first to two round.

After that Jake Paul takes over.

But that's not scripted is it. That's just taking it easy. There's no stipulation that fighters have to go full hog and fight to the death. Many champions even take easy fights where they go easy on each other. Tyson Fury has done it numerous times.

Also, did you even read the article. They're not banned, but suspended as is mandatory for health safety reasons. Many fighters get much longer than that, especially if it was a gruelling fight or one of them got KOed.



Every video I've seen on this has been absolute nonsense. I even saw someone claim that Jake could be heard telling Mike to take it easy but I've yet to see any evidence of that.

There's a huge difference between these two guys and the endpoints to this rivalry is quite unknown and unnecessary.Their performances have triggered too much expectations and toxic remarks from fans and everyone.I'm sincerely wondering why their fight and battle has lingered this much to this extent.Both parties are equally struggling with their aims towards the Bitcoin.

It is not toxic, it is what people want. If people wont cheer Jake long time ago to start boxing and call opponent for a fight, if people wont create all that hype around Jakes fights, show no interest in what he is doing, he would not have continued. Imo, Jake is an actor on first place. He does what people want to see. It is not 100% his fault that he is fighting retired, old, low skilled opponents, it is what his audience wants to see.

C'mon they ain't going to write it in a book and demonstrate how the punches should go and who should throw and who not to throw more than 10 punches. I understand you completely but I believe the word " scripted" explained the case better or is there any word more suitable?

Lol they could have easily used something else instead of "banned"

Its all for the show and it was been called exhibition in the first place on providing up the public to have at least that good entertainment but it wasnt actually considered to be one specially if you are seeing that
punches are really that been hold of or something that been that too obvious on which it do really sucks on seeing on this one. One of the thing that i dont really like on exhibition fights
is that you dont know on what would be the show looks like. This is why i do really skip out on making up some bets in regarding into this one because it will most likely not getting in line
on whatever those stats in papers do really meant into but rather going into the opposite.

https://i.ibb.co/8DXNVN1/Screenshot-20241125-003024.jpg

So, yesterday I was swiping through a social platform that I have on my phone and I came across this guy speaking bitterly of how Tyson caused him lose $14, 000  ;D, I couldn't help but laugh at how he over exaggerated on the loss, owning to the fact that he as a fan of Mike, believed that the man was going to win but end up causing him $14k.

Lol, but he just have to think of Drake who bet $335,000 and lost as well. The only difference is that it could be just a drop for Drake but this kid might be saving this money for a long time.

And probably this is the reason why we can this fight as a scam. It's because Tyson really put up a good training video and then there are people who thinks that the has a chance to win. But we all know that he is already old and slow, but this kid didn't take that into consideration and maybe counting that he will get a good windfall since Mike Tyson is the underdog.

But then what do you define as scripted? If it's scripted then it would be WWE. Every punch and move is planned to a tee and follows the script they've planned and trained for to perform publicly. This really wasn't in any way scripted in my opinion. It was what it was: A 27 year old in his prime having a glorified sparring session with a near 60-year old 30 years out of his prime. Jake obviously took it easy and Mike struggled to go the full distance but I don't believe they had any contractual agreement to do x and y at specific times other than maybe an agreement - whether contractual or just verbal - to not go crazy on each other. They might not have even had that. Jake may have just tested him out for the first round or so to see how dangerous (or not) Mike is and then decided whether to go a little easy once he realised there's not much chance of him getting hurt. As long as he threw and landed the most punches then he knows he will win and that's probably the best result for him as opposed to knocking a 60-year-old out or even worse for him getting knocked out himself. As for what I'd call it - it was just a spectacle. A headline grabbing fight that earned them both a shitload and it probably ended in the best way for both of them. I think whatever would have happened in this fight whether Jake or Mike got knocked out certain people will stay say it was scripted or fake etc.

I don't think his financial level is up to that of Drake, but if he actually spend all his savings on that bet, then he is not financially smart. Being the fan of Tyson  will not stop him from losing a fight if he was really meant to lose the fight.

Holysh$t she put all her eggs on Mike. lol losing that amount of money is devastating in this crisis time.

Did you guys watched the news about Netflix being sued for the scripted fight of Mike and Jake?  A lot of people says its a rigged fight. I'm not really sure if they could prove it but there is really a chance that Mike could KO Jake that time. I think they really fooled people into making the fight as a pro fight instead of just an exhibition.

I'm not certain about the whole game but I'm sure there was "No KO" clause in their contract before the game and that's my definition of "scripted" although I may be wrong.

Well, the first round was real fight, Jake didn't know what to expect and was abit scared, then found out he could beat Tyson even with his eyes closed then, the whole rounds became exhibition to entertain us.

I haven't seen it but boy, why would they sue Netflix if they know that this fight is going to be a exhibition match?

Although rules has been changed to picture this as a pro-fight, but still a 58 year old vs a young stud being promoted by a streaming device? Then for sure even casual fans can read between the line that this is just indeed a exhibition.

As far as scripted, maybe there was a clause that there are no going to be no knockdowns, but as far as who is going to win? I doubt that it was pre-written.

Anyone can file a suit for anything, doesn't mean it will be successful, though I haven't seen anything other than a lawsuit against Netlfix for the bad stream which seemed to effect a lot of people. Even my stream was going down. If someone did believe the fight was fixed then they could file a suit, though I doubt it would be successful unless there's some strong evidence of such. If it did go to court the contracts would have to be presented as evidence etc. That would actually be very interesting to just see what was in them and if there was contractual agreements to take it easy etc then they might have a case.


I think the whole "no KO" clause is also BS and just chatter on the internet and only really started with the Jake Paul fights, and in which Jake has KOed most of his opponents. There's certainly never been any evidence for it. How do you even plan for that? What happens if you do KO someone by accident? It's not really something you can plan for unless you were puling every single punch. Even a light punch can KO someone if you land it right. As Connor McGregor often stated "precision beats power, timing beats speed" and it's true. Sure, harder punches often lead to most KOs but not always. Jake was definitely throwing some dangerous punches at certain points but lightened up or stepped off the gas a little as the fight went on. Even Tyson threw some good ones. Just check out the highlights with some of the slow motion shots: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aja2KfuoqGA

Most of those punches could have caused a KO and both Jake and Tyson dodged a fair few great punches. They were both throwing good ones right to the end though they were few and far between. If it was fixed, scripted or there was a no KO agreement I think it would have been obvious and the fight would have gone a much different way.


It wasn't billed as an exhibition but a proper fight and was sanctioned as such. Exhibition fights a winner is not declared. It's just an open sparring session essentially.

Did you not see that Jake had few chances to knock him out in the link you just shared? Or am I the only one noticing it? ;D I'm not a professional boxer, but Tyson repeatedly exposed his face for a knockout, and he was already looking exhausted in the final round. Financially, it was a good business, but it was a disaster on a sporting level.

Jake vs Ishowspeed: Why is the WBO allowing clown to clown fixtures?I get they need the money and publicity, but letting a YouTuber with no boxing experience enter a professional ring is insane. I wonder what boxing fans think about this match.

you're not the only one, one of the very clear chances Jake could have knocked down/out Tyson was in round 3 around 1:36, you can even see Mike Tyson losing balance his balance, so he will certainly get knocked down or knocked out if Jake Paul continued punching, but for some "unknown" reason jake stopped punching  ::)

Mhan, it was quite obvious that Mike wasn't himself from the third round... I feared even more for him when he lost his finger grips and all he could do at the time was scramble in a way, to see if he could block the forthcoming punches from the rookie.

Mike's aged and not as strong as what he might think he is.. on top of that, he's been off for 20 whole years(if I'm not wrong)...Who comes back to some type of job after such as huge retirement rest?
Oh c'monnn, speed is such a clown... He's made a lot of money off the Internet just by acting weird with celebs. But I'd love to ask, how did we get here? This was a sport we all enjoyed in the 1900s and early 2000s .

His financial level isn't similar to that of Drake. Whether he's saying the truth or it is a built story, I completely go with him. Not just because he's a fan of Mike Tyson, the majority believed that he'll win, unlike the age and Jake Paul being very young. After the fight, everyone understood this was a pre-planned one, because if Tyson had won, it would have gone just as news. Now the win of Jake Paul will be discussed till Tyson makes a win against him. Everything is considered as content, and whether we win the bet or not, we're the losers. Unlike the win and loss, both players are making millions, which is pure business.

I'm always skeptical about all the viral videos that pop out on the media platforms. People would say/do literally anything for the clout these days.
But assuming his story is true, as painful as it is, it's probably better that he got burnt early in life with only $14k and hopefully learned a lesson for life. He looks like a young kid, so, if he's not a retard, he'll earn more than that in his life anyway and hopefully will be more careful in taking risks.

There's no doubt by so many people who believed that Tyson was going to win that contest, I actually believed that will his experience and for old times records, he was going to win but at same time I just felt that the age difference could also be a barrier which left me with no valid conclusion of who was going to be the winner.  If actually this was just a content, then they deceived people into betting on the contest just to lose money.

Well that's easier said than done and you can watch any fight back and ask yourself why didn't a fighter do x or y in any fight. Fighters get tired. Fighters conserve energy. Where was their stance or balance? Fighters don't always see the opportunities spectators do or watching a fight back after the fact. Hindsight is always 20/20.


Huh? There is no fight between them. I doubt IShowSpeed would get into the ring with Jake anyway and it's just clout chasing. I'm sure IShowSpeed will get into the ring at some point but probably not with Jake as a first fight.

It's because on how Mike really market himself in this fight. There are a lot of videos of hype training very hard and then others saying that he is in the best shape of his life. He could be, but it's the question if he can pull the trigger or not. So definitely at 58 years old, he can't do it any more, he gets tired after the first two rounds and just showing a glimpse of himself throughout the 8 rounds.

You can call it that way, we've been deceived while Jake and Mike going to the bank and cashing it out. And now there are reports that the fight could have been scripted. But regardless, we know that Mike Tyson is not going to win this fight.

It's easy to say that the fight was scripted but difficult for many people to believe without a proof. I could easily guess it's scripted because I felt that with Mike's records and practices he can win but at same time we know that Mike's age was really something not to compare with a young energetic man. They caused a lot of gamblers their money.

See so many videos about showing the fight of Paul and Tyson is scripted.

There's a youtuber showing some good points about this fight here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvpm3XtclXw

But any of this its expected and the fight is already over so still respect to the legend since despite of his age he show up again to bring good show to his fans. People surely understand the result that's why he still earn their respect even if he lose.

To those who had been saying about giving a good fight then they are really just that simply trying out to praise him but actually it was really that a total disappointment, because if we do try to look into those
moments on which he could actually be able to make clean hits but the punch was been that held off halfway, as if we do able to see obviously that he remembered that he wont be paid if he KO'ed Jake. lol

When it comes to exhibition fights then you could be able to expect that results or outcomes of the said fight will really be that something rigged or fixed. They do make exhibition just for show
and despite on obviously seeing on whose gonna win then it could be still giving out that opposite outcome. I have seen tons of people who had bet on Tyson did lose up big time
and just for example on what have been mentioned about on betting his life savings to Tyson? that is something which is really that devastative.

If people players knew that most of the fights are usually scripted, then they should not have bet on Mike because it should be clear that reverse will always be the case in such game.

The both of them never went on full power, imagine Paul going very hard on Tyson who is as twice his age. Not compromising with the fact also that Tyson had the screen setup, even at his age i still believe he should have done better defending himself, i saw some late moves  and avoided hits that should have helped inflict blows to Paul but he withdrew so many and just landed a bit of touch which is unlike him. What we saw was basically for our entertainment, it was never as serious the way it was aired in channels. Both really made fortunes from putting out that show, it would also go long way for Tyson knowing he lost much that he had and this is just another way to begin building back his finance.

What are you saying? If that fight were scripted, then most likely Mike Tyson would win, because without a script, it’s unlikely he could pull it off. So, that only proves it wasn’t scripted, since the betting favorite won the fight. Honestly, only die-hard Tyson fans would believe the old man could beat the young, sensational boxer Jake Paul.

To add to this, it is wise to remember that the peak of Tyson did not last long, so even if he is considered to be one of the best heavyweight boxers which ever lived, he was only able to maintain that level for a few years, unlike with what we saw with fighters like George Foreman, which is the oldest person to win the heavyweight championship of the world, so if Foreman had staged a comeback when he was Tyson's age, I would be more willing to believe he had what was necessary to fight professionally and get some wins.

He had plenty of fights back then looking at his record - https://boxrec.com/en/proboxer/474...

However, I think the main reason he has fewer fights compared to someone like Foreman is because he spent almost three years in jail. That time away from the sport was a major setback. Even though he fought more after his release, his momentum and career trajectory were undeniably affected.

Before going to jail, his record was nearly flawless with only one loss, which says a lot about how dominant he was. Being jailed wasn’t just a pause, it was the turning point of his career, and it’s hard not to wonder what could have been if those years hadn’t been taken away.

https://www.newsweek.com/why-mike-tayson-prison-1992-rape-conviction-1986774

I've been seeing those shitty graphics all over the place, you know the dude Ishowspeed is just everywhere chasing clout and all that, heard he's going to be competing in the next Olympics and all sort of BS.


Not only Tyson fans, but those of us who watched him in his peak, believe he is capable of defeating anyone at any time. We neglected the reality that stamina and pace are important, and he no longer possesses those qualities. I used to believe it was scripted, but I've since realized otherwise.

For sure on which there's that control on which they are all fully aware that he's really that fighting with an old man/fighter but if you do really tend to look up on which Jake might almost that give it all and Mike wasnt been able to do so. When we do tend to look with those thrown punches then you could be able to tell that whose really that on advantage. Im not really that going totally with Mike on here but there's so much chance that we are seeing that he could KO Jake multiple times or make up that solid clean hit but it didnt happen. Why? they are here to make up some show and wont really be trying out to finish up the fight as early as possible, which it is really that understandable that there would really be that hold ups because of that possible unexpected results or outcome on which it is really out of their plan.

@OP, this fight is already over and it would really be just that right that this thread should be locked. I do saw that comments and feedbacks in regarding the fight is already that enough
or something that wont be that relevant anymore. Lets just focus into those upcoming shitty exhibition fights. lol

Anyone here of this news?

"Loser gets 0" - MMA X erupts over rumored $700 million KO bounty for potential Mike Tyson vs. Jake Paul rematch. (https://www.sportskeeda.com/mma/news-loser-gets-0-mma-x-erupts-rumored-700-million-ko-bounty-potential-mike-tyson-vs-jake-paul-rematch/)

And according to the report, HE Turki Alalshikh, will be involved. We all know that he is this powerful broker in boxing now. As he held a lot of great boxing fans in Saudi in the last couple of years.

They have the money to back it up, that's why everyone in boxing is like into his payroll, including most of the boxing promoters and obviously the best fighters that we have right now. If this pushes thorough, it could be the biggest boxing even money wise.

What do you guys think of this idea of a rematch?

^^ That is huge numbers to begin with, and for sure both of this fighters are going to accept that fight if that kind of money is being offered or in the table. For fans, hell yeah, when the Saudi involved themselves in boxing, we have seen a lot of great fights and we still have the Fury vs Usyk rematch in December.

On the other hand, there are those who criticized Turki as he likely wanted to take boxing and there are also reports that there will be no governing bodies if he wanted to as he want to model boxing like UFC. But let's see, that is a ambitious program by him and it will really take a lot of money to accomplished it.

Is he serious? Why would anyone want to see a rematch when it’s clear Mike Tyson can’t keep up with a young Jake Paul? What are they aiming for here? To build up some overhyped spectacle for a fight where we already know the outcome? If this happens, it’ll just end the same way, or worse, Tyson could get KO’d and seriously hurt. Nobody wants that, right? Unless, of course, they’re scripting everything to make sure Tyson doesn’t get hurt badly.

Now, if we’re talking about big money, why not put that towards a real fight? How about Canelo vs. Jake Paul? There’s already a rumor they might face off, and honestly, that sounds way more interesting. Let’s go with that instead!

I guess they would never told that the fight would became something like that since who will watch and bet on a predictable match?

For sure they would put something intense situation so that they could hype a lot of viewers. We see those good clips where Tyson train so hard and also Paul does the same. We see so many people is so confident that Tyson will win, but I guess those expectation didn't happen and Jake Paul goes home a victor. But anyways its still a good fight we see Tyson doing good despite of his age even if they call it a scripted match.

It's all about the money, not sure how big the money that it has generated, but for sure Netflix and Jake Paul's MVP might have made a lot of money here and so the Saudi's might want to have a piece of the pie and sponsor another rematch, after all they have tons of money to spend on boxing and so why not have this great sporting event in Saudi?

And no matter what, Mike might want to have a rematch. If in the first match it was reported that he made $20 million, perhaps in this rematch he could double that so he might agree and fight again and maybe they will have a storyline like Mike not really pushing himself and so if he is given a chance, he will knockout Jake Paul for good.

I'm not fan of the rematch to be honest, we've been deceived once, so I guess that's already good enough for us fans. But if they proceed, then what can we do? It's either we don't patronize the fight or don't bet on it.

But if it's going to be on Netflix again, I guess for us subscribers we might take that chance to see the fight.

We would refuse though if the news is true that $700 million will be in the line for this fight? Maybe it's the total package that Turki might be offering for this fight, and Tyson again getting a good pay, while Jake Paul and his company will handle the promotions together with Netflix.

Not really a boxing game.
It was just a makemoney show.

I have read that they got 60 mil 40 for the winner and 20 for the loser are prize.

Not counting also the personal sponsor they got...

$700 mills cash pool for the rematch?? There's no way in the world this is true.
I can't even imagine who would really be interested in watching their rematch. The biggest selling point was a curiosity about how Mike would perform at his age against a showman who has only fought one professional boxer (and I'm giving Tommy Fury way too much credit here). Once we know that, there's hardly any selling point there.

I can't do anything but agree with what you said. However, I guess Jake Paul and Mike Tyson aren't the only ones who have done this. If I'm not mistaken, the first one to initiate events like this was Mayweather when he fought Conor McGregor in the boxing ring. The same goes for Manny Pacquiao, who has had many exhibition matches — if I'm not mistaken, he’s had about 3 to 5 matches, and all of those were surely for the money.

Guess every exhibition fight we see is for makemoney show. We cannot get intense substance with it if we are looking for physicality since that matches cannot provide those intense factor that we want to see on match.

People watching it is just curious to know how the legend is doing and if they are capable to fight. If they lose or win its fine nothing change, we see this kind of approach happen on Jake Paul vs Mike Tyson fight and for sure this change the landscape of betting since I believe there are so many people lose their bets when they place it on Tyson.

Exhibition or not, everything comes with money and its impossible that those fighters/athletes wont really be minding up that much about on how much money that they would really be able to generate.
Usually retired boxers are really that doing this but of course they will really be needing up that title on which being a champion or being legendary on which they could potentially be able to make
that huge money with exhibition and it is really that one of the perks on having that good title.

We've been continuing with this kind of set up on which as long there's a demand and huge crowd/fan interest on certain fights then they will really be trying out to make arrangement to make it happen. Its a win win situation for them on which the ill really be just that needing up dance above in the canvass and not exerting all of their efforts.

And as much as we hate Oscar Dela Hoya, he is spot on with regards to this fight, go watch it below.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DCqU-rExvIf/

Most of this opinions are what we saw in the Mike Tyson vs Jake Paul fight.

And he has some strong points too with how boxing is right now and why we are not seeing the best fighting the best. Although it looks like he is still butt-hurt with Canelo Alvarez as he continue to attack him.

I think that is the very definition of exhibition matches, we might like the fight as it could be controversial and the magnitude of the fighters themselves. But at the end of the day, it is still mismatching and everything is for fun and entertainment and money grab.


That's what I'm trying to say, there is a controversy in this fight, that's why people bought tickets and watch if see if Mike Tyson can win or knock out Jake Paul. But if logic dictates, Mike is old already and can't pull a punch combination except during his trainings and we all fall for it.

That is huge, it's only a boxer dream to have that kind of contract, and the closest if I'm not mistaken is Canelo with $300++ with DAZN before but with multiple fights. So it doesn't make sense that they are going to offer this kind of money just for 1 fight only.

And also the Saudi has the money and deep pockets, but will it give something in return for them? Will they double they money if they shell out that huge money to have this fight happen in their country?

I thought Baofeng made a typo, and he actually meant $70 million, which would also be huge, but I've just googled it and media indeed are reporting on the $700m offer:
https://www.marca.com/en/boxing/2024/12/03/674efe75ca474115218b459d.html

But it sounds like it was more of a casual comment by Turki Alalshikh than any official offer, and he also mentioned that it would be contingent on Tyson KOing Paul within 3 minutes:

So yeah, I don't expect we will actually see a rematch, and that's probably for the best.

That is huge offer for Mike Tyson and for sure he won't refuse it, but the question is, can he do that. Because if we go with that no script in the first fight, then we can see that he can't pull the trigger, although others might argue that there is a script that Tyson cannot win by KO.

And with that, maybe the rich powerful broker is willing to pay Mike huge money, but he should go out 100% in the fight. No more holding or simply just go on with the rounds and not pushing for a win. But let's see, maybe talks are already been the background for this one.

If media is reporting it, at least they could have a source about it.

It just takes the fun out of it when you make it all about the money as Jake Paul touts and is proud of calling himself the money man or whatever he says lol. I think if it was staged that it was a trade off for Tyson for sure, one he willingly made though. That's a lot of cash and he will live it down. Maybe he will even admit that it was a stage way down the road when the NDA expires lmao.

There's fun in it though, because we will see if Mike is just trying to hold his power against Jake Paul. And if the Saudi is true to their offer and Mike accepts it, then it's a real fight and so that's where the fun will begin, as Jake might be in trouble here.

Nevertheless, we don't know if either party are going to accept that proposition from Turki, to make the fight as real as it gets and no more script and each own will go for break and try to score a knockout win. So that the fans is going to get their money's worth unlike the first one in which we are still debating whether it looks like it because there's no knockout or knockdown and with that, everyone was scammed by this big fight, specially those who bet on Mike Tyson.

Let's be real, $700m is huge money even considering how wealthy the Saudis are.
Talk is cheap though, Alalshikh venting out and speculating about making such a huge offer is one thing, and actually making it happen is another one. If he was serious about organising the rematch, he would need much less than $700m. I'm sure both would agree to do it for $50m each (or less).
Plus, Alalshikh mentioned that he would pay Mike that much only if he was to KO Paul within 3 minutes, in which case all Jake would have to do is just to keep running away for 3 minutes, or allow Mike to get what he wants and both could split the money afterwards.

Yeah, I also thought that in the beginning it was just $70 million, but it turns out to be $700 million. But I do agree that it's really huge money that we haven't talk in boxing. And if I'm not mistaken, the biggest could be just around $100 million, but not sure if that happen or what.

But let's see if there will be rematch sponsored by the Saudi's. But I doubt though that they are willing to offer that big amount of money. Most likely what you said as well, $50 million and I think that is far as reported that Mike received $20 million. So it will double his previous paycheck and it could be a offer that he can't refused.

That sounds like a better plan  ;D $700M! Damn! That kind of opportunity doesn't come by every day.

It's like scamming Alalshikh. Mike and Jake teaming up once again. They already are accused of rigging their first fight and yet Alalshikh wants them a rematch.?
Well if Alalshikh is asking for it, Mike should give it a go. He could just work together with Jake after all they have been good partners already.

Lol, but yeah, that's also my first impression when I read that kind of money that the Saudi are willing to negotiate for the rematch.


For sure Turki  Alalshikh might have lost a lot of money already from the boxing match that he has set. It's not that the match up is bad, but perhaps he spend too much money for everything including paycheck after paycheck from the biggest boxers that we have right now specially from welterweight up to the heavyweight division. But they have a lot of money to throw and to burn, so it doesn't matter if they will be scam again by Jake Paul and Mike Tyson.

Some could call it scamming, some could call it taking advantage of a poorly thought-through offer. If Alalshikh was serious about that (which he isn't), he would have to offer Mike $700m for KOing Jake within the first 3 minutes and, at the same time, offering Jake $700m for surviving the first 3 minutes. Then we would have more chances of the fight being legit. It would still be weird to watch a fight contracted to only one round because, past that point, the result would hardly matter.

Alasshikh is merely chasing clout with that offer; he is well aware that Tyson has a little chance of knocking out Jake in three minutes; this is not a video game where one can cheat to defeat an opponent in a couple of minutes; we are talking about an old PRO versus a younger emerging boxer.

Even if Jake receives the same offer, there is no way Jake will be able to knock out Tyson in three minutes. For those of you asking both boxers to fix the game and share the prize money, this will not work; a true boxer fan knows a real fight, and if one or both are found to be fixing the game, they will be banned and the funds confiscated.

I'm reading that Saudi Arabia wants a rematch and offered 700m $ as prize.
This is crazy, how they can say no.

Assuming it is true, it will happen but where? Netflix? I doubt they want to use an American Tv Network

It is not really their fault but the consumer, I remember reading a book about music long time ago, and the author asked a musician why the music of today seemed to be uninspired compared to the past, and the answer he got was along the lines of ‘When shit sells like gold, making gold will just delay you.’ So I do not blame promoters and boxers for giving people exactly what they want, I blame the fans for actually wanting a rematch bad enough that such a massive amount of money can be made out of it by all the participants.

I'm not sure where the Saudi's are affiliated though, but if I'm not mistaken, they are with DAZN as far as PPV goes, so if this supposedly rematch happen, it could be that DAZN is the one that is going to cover this fight.

But it's hard to assume as Jake might have sign a contract with Netflix as well with his MVP promotions to have his fight and fights that he handled to be on Netflix. As we all know, Netflix is also trying to get a big piece of that pie in boxing, so it's going to be a very hard negotiations as well as who will bring the rights to show this fight if ever it will happen in the future.

Yes, we all know that numbers is crazy and it's the first time that we have heard it. And that's how big the Saudi are as far as bringing boxing fights for fans.

Jake Paul most probably paid off Mike Tyson, and since Mike Tyson no longer has anything left to prove, I guess he must have decided that the money was worth it. I just wonder how much money he could have gotten...

I still believe that Jake Paul would never be able to take down Mike Tyson, if it was a real fight.

If anything, this match just made me more skeptical about the authenticity of modern boxing....

He is obviously being paid by Netflix and Jake Paul himself because his company MVP, has co-promoted this fight. But as far as there are scripts to be followed just like what we are debating because they have been news about it, we can only speculate about it.


Mike Tyson is 58 years old during this fight, and so think about some 58 years old fighting a young man.


Although this fight tell us that it's considered as pro-fight with all the rules to accommodated it, for me this is still very much an exhibition and could not be treated as a regular boxing fights. There are fights like Fury vs Usyk this December, I urge you to watch about it and see if it's authentic.

Another twist on Mike Tyson here.

https://www.talkimg.com/images/2024/12/08/prGjH.png


https://www.msn.com/en-in/sports/boxing/mike-tyson-sued-for-1-600-000-over-jake-paul-fight-boxing-legend-responds/ar-AA1vrFHA

It's not big of money as compare to what he get fighting Jake Paul. But still a million is a million. So who knows, maybe Tyson will try to make the rematch as the amount being offered to him is huge.

What do you think about this lawsuit though? Will Mike able to win this one in court?

Jake Paul backtracking today after saying that Mike Tyson was having some servers health issues before their fight that he cured by licking a toad. Sure, Jake was drunk or something and clearly speaking nonsense that he didn’t even know what he was saying, but it is a funny clip to watch. Jake would’ve fought Tyson even if he was in a wheelchair.