Mike Tyson is returning to the ring to sq. off towards Jake Paul.
The former heavyweight champ will facial area the YouTube star turned specialist boxer at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, on July 20. The function will air on Netflix.
“Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson is a the moment-in-a-life span dream matchup and I anticipate it will be the most-watched boxing function in fashionable boxing historical past,” Nakisha Bidarian, co-founder of Paul’s Most Worthwhile Promotions, said in a statement.
Tyson experienced a 50-6 record with 44 knockouts all through his expert career, which finished in 2005. He most not long ago fought in a 2020 exhibition from Roy Jones Jr. and will be 58 yrs outdated at the time of the struggle when he faces the 27-calendar year-aged Paul, who is 9-1 in his boxing career.
Paul fought previous NBA player Nate Robinson in the undercard of the Tyson-Jones fight. Now, he will have a opportunity to struggle the boxing legend.
“It truly is mad to feel that in my second pro fight I went viral for knocking out Nate Robinson on Mike Tyson’s undercard,” Paul reported. “Now, much less than four several years afterwards, I’m stepping up to confront Tyson myself to see if I have what it requires to conquer 1 of boxing’s most infamous fighters and major icons. In just two and a fifty percent a long time of founding MVP, we are about to generate the greatest struggle in background, a combat in the most important NFL stadium in the U.S., broadcast are living, on the major streaming system in the environment — a testament to all we’ve attained in such a quick sum of time.”
Tyson reported he is hunting forward to the chance to “complete” Paul.
“I’m incredibly substantially seeking forward to stepping into the ring with Jake Paul at the AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas,” Tyson claimed. “He’s grown noticeably as a boxer in excess of the yrs, so it will be a ton of enjoyable to see what the will and ambition of a ‘kid’ can do with the expertise and aptitude of a GOAT. It’s a comprehensive circle second that will be over and above thrilling to observe as I started him off on his boxing journey on the undercard of my combat with Roy Jones and now I plan to finish him.”
