YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul has admitted that he carried 58-year-old ring legend Mike Tyson in their boxing match on Friday night in Arlington, Texas.
“I wanted to give the fans a show,” said Paul at the post fight press conference, “but I didn’t wanna hurt someone that didn’t need to be hurt. [I took my foot off the pedal] a little bit, yeah like I did. There was a point where you know I was just like ‘OK he’s not really engaging back and I don’t know if he’s tired or whatever’ and I could just tell that his age was showing a little bit.
“I just have so much respect for him, and that violence/war thing between us like after he slapped me, I wanted to be aggressive and take him down and knock him out and all that stuff, but that kind of went away as the rounds went on.”
Why didn’t he make this disclosure BEFORE the fight?
Since people are betting on the outcome and jake paul by knockout is a betting option , jake paul fixed the outcome. This is a crime.
Real crime would be anyone betting on this.
If Tyson had been even slightly competitive he may have been more willing to hurt him. Tyson had nothing left, so Paul held back. This was expected by a lot of people beforehand.
Someone with a brain. It’s amazing so many people find this hard to understand. Jake didn’t make the decision before the fight.
Like you said, he and anyone with a brain saw that Mike wasn’t really competitive, plus he still has some power. It was in no one’s interest for him to take a risk. Do people want to see either of these guys get hurt?
This whole thing is emblematic of cultural decay of American society.
Are you kidding me? Is everyone slow?
He made the decision in the fight. He didn’t know beforehand. He, like anyone with a functional brain, saw that Tyson was in no condition to fight, so he made the judgment not to hurt him. Would you have liked to see Tyson seriously hurt or die?
“I could just tell that his age was showing a little bit”…..
What a lying sack of shit Paul is. He was fighting scared he was simply horrified with the thought of an almost 60 year old knocking him out! He has absolutely zero respect for even choosing a senior citizen to box against. This guy has no morals and his scum bag brother is the same…
I feel his comment is really disrespectful to Mike Tyson.
Why you choose a grand father then ???
Next time fight usyk then I will give you credit
Why go so high? Opetaia is more than enough
If you could have, you would have. Tyson was still dangerous with that power and Jake knew it. He didn’t want to take any risks so he played it safe. I’m not saying he doesn’t have respect for Tyson or isn’t actually glad the fight went the distance. But saying you carried him and could have taken him out if you wanted to….no, I don’t buy that.
Everyone knew coming into this fight that if Paul wanted to take out Tyson he could, even if they were wearing 14oz gloves. He did take his foot off the gas but any halfway decent boxer could have done the same thing. At least Mike got a solid payday out of it.
Paul who knocks out almost no one??? Ok.
No. This is very simple. Jake could have probably hurt Mike. Mike looked so bad. However, he still has some power.
So Jake made the most logical decision. Instead of risking himself getting hurt or seriously hurting a man nearing SIXTY who had no business in the ring, he did the right thing.
I swear our country is getting dumber and dumber.
Fight was staged. Like most of Paul’s fights. Hurting the game.
I was so glad that Mike didn’t get hurt. It was obvious that JP took it a bit easy and I’m ok with that. This was an event not a serious match between contenders like the undercard.
Tyson grabbing his nuts at the weigh in acting like a lowlife again. He said he was going to destroy jake paul to fleece people out of their money. Jake paul should have knocked him out for embarrassing the sport.
Tyson is an old man, he slapped Paul because he stood on his foot. Don’t blame Tyson for being old and unable to do much.
He should knock yo ass out for being a ghost writer!
Jake Paul if he serious needs to go back to cruiserweight fight a world rated top 20 need to step up or maybe rematch with tommy fury if still fighting.
Tyson slap Jake because they have to sell the fight
I’m tryna tell all these casuals. The fight was fixed from the beginning. No one was going to knock anybody out. It’s all about the Benjamins all along. A LOT of people made money from this. I ain’t mad at them. Can’t blame the casuals, they don’t know better.
Might as well go back to the circus tent boxing days.
The whole thing with it counting on their professional records is throwing me off. I could agree with a fixed fight if it weren’t for this. The event was absurd with a big question mark.
All of you are completely wrong. This fight was totally scripted and staged. The fighters sparred beforehand to have this outcome on purpose. In real life Mike would’ve destroyed him
Paul was much younger, faster, bigger. He was fighting two-minute rounds, not three. Only either rounds. Yet at the end, Paul looked winded and worn out, and this wasn’t due to his “holding back”. It was due to his running, dodging, ducking, and putting in an enormous amount of energy watching for Tyson punches to avoid. He stayed on the outside, keeping his distance, because Tyson’s punches hurt. All Paul could to is occasionally wing shots in hopes that one lands, but Tyson was too experienced to get caught by those amateurish punches. As Tyson stalked, Paul ran. So Paul didn’t “hold back”. He just wasn’t effective.
Like I said its nothing more than a WWE event. Classic good guys verses bad guy. The outcome was predetermined. Tyson is 58 years old man with health issues vs a 27 year old health man. Tyson had to fulfill his contract and Paul’s job was to take care of Tyson thus the 14 oz. gloves. Nostalgia and story line made some folks believe of a different outcome. Tyson loses by decision, Paul wins allowing him to continue is campaign and they both make a boat load of money.