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?
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
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.
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.
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.