Around 80,000 people were hoping boxing legend Mike Tyson would make his comeback on Friday night against Jake Paul – and the excitement at AT&T Stadium was through the roof this morning.
But by the fourth round, as Tyson began to look like a 58-year-old who hadn’t fought well in 19 years, the crowd began to die. After a few seconds, the boo-birds were loud, and the crowd started to get restless.
The reaction on social media was the same, with many quickly losing interest in the greatest boxing match in modern history. Maybe tons of problems connecting to Netflix, where the fight was shown live, and the minutes of the reduction were added to the reduction as well.
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Mike Tyson (in black shorts) and Jake Paul (in silver shorts) exchange punches during the world heavyweight titles of the Premiere Boxing Championship Friday night at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas on Nov. 15. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Sure, almost no one in the crowd wanted to see Jake Paul win, but the crowd was rooting for the action as a whole – not just Paul. In the end, it was a unanimous decision victory for Paul.
Apparently Tyson ran out of gas early on, which would have caused Paul, 31 years Tyson’s junior, to jump, but Paul later admitted he had left.
“Definitely a little bit. I wanted to give the fans a show, but I didn’t want to hurt someone who didn’t need to be hurt,” he said in his post-fight presser. Tyson did not speak to the media.
“I tried to fight the best fight I could, but when someone’s still alive in the ring, it’s hard to make it fun. I couldn’t really get them to engage me or shoot and do something really cool or anything,” he added.
Jake Paul and Mike Tyson embrace after their heavyweight boxing match on November 15 in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
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However, that led to what was widely considered a boring fight. In fact, the most exciting part of all of this may have been Tyson’s slap on the scales on Thursday.
But Paul, in his words, does not care about being indifferent.
“I don’t care what people say. They will always have something to say. It is what it is.”
Most Valuable Promotions founder Nakisa Bidarian added, “The only way people would be happy is if Jake lost. People would be like ‘oh, what a great fight! Mike is a legend!’ [If] he took out Mike Tyson, he would have been defeated. Eight laps went by, ‘Mike wasn’t trying. The fight wasn’t good enough.’ It was an unbelievable showdown between the 58-year-old legend and the 27-year-old boxer.
“And again [Paul] he took Mike Tyson out like he said he would.”
US YouTuber/boxer Jake Paul celebrates winning a heavyweight boxing match against retired boxer Mike Tyson (R) at The Pavilion at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, on November 15. (TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images)
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Paul improved to 11-1 in his junior career. The loss was Tyson’s seventh, in a stretch of 50 victories.
Tyson has now lost his last three fights, and four of his last five, with his last victory on Feb. 22, 2003.
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