Jake Paul and Mike Tyson started the hype and path towards their November 15 battle with a press convention in New York Metropolis on August 18, held as one of many last occasions of the three-day Fanatics Fanfest NYC.
Although the press convention started 40 minutes after it was initially scheduled to start out, the Javits Middle theater was packed to capability and the gang was raucous. From the second Paul entered, he was mercilessly booed and jeered; in the meantime, Tyson obtained continuous cheering all through the occasion.
The press convention was hosted by Ryan Clark, who mentioned the bout which he known as the most important boxing occasion on the earth, bringing collectively six generations of boxing followers.
Each males expressed not only a need, however a promise, to knock the opposite man out of their struggle on November 15 in Dallas, Texas.
Paul claimed that he was the one who introduced the struggle’s profitable Netflix deal to Tyson, claiming that it was Tyson who insisted the struggle be sanctioned as it’s.
Tyson responded by stating that he’s taken this struggle as a result of he can, calling it the perfect of all time vs. a YouTuber, which resulted within the crowd directing a “YouTuber!” chant at Paul a number of occasions throughout the press convention.
After simply a few media questions, the 2 stared down, with some physicality showing to point out.
Paul vs. Tyson was initially scheduled to go down in July earlier than Tyson suffered an ulcer flare up on a aircraft.
Paul enters this struggle on a four-fight win streak, most just lately stopping Mike Perry final month.
This shall be Tyson’s first sanctioned professional struggle since his loss to Kevin McBride in June 2005, which in the end served as Tyson’s retirement bout. Tyson battled Roy Jones Jr. to an eight-round attract an exhibition bout in November 2020.
