Oscar De La Hoya accuses Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson of being ‘scripted’

Oscar De La Hoya thinks there was one thing fishy occurring for final week’s Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson boxing match.

Though there’s no actual proof, many on-line have questioned the validity of Paul’s unanimous determination win over Tyson final Friday on the Dallas Cowboys’ AT&T Stadium. De La Hoya, a former boxing world champion and now promoter, can be on that boat, as he not too long ago accused Paul of staging the struggle with Tyson – which might be unlawful.

“Everyone seems to be speaking about how staged this struggle was, and I do imagine it was scripted, and I imagine that Tyson was actually held again,” De La Hoya stated on Instagram. “Look, I’m a fighter, and I can see it. It goes on their document and it was sanctioned. So Jake Paul paid to get the W on his document, for what? To your personal private satisfaction?

“I maintain telling you, if you wish to be an actual fighter wish to say you wish to be, what are you doing? Like, who’s subsequent? Joe Biden? It’s a must to struggle actual fighters. Nonetheless, the struggle drew 65 million households, which suggests roughly 200 million eyeballs have been watching, and the massive winners have been Amanda Serrano and Katie Taylor, who placed on an unimaginable actual struggle that have been launched to new followers around the globe.”

Paul and Tyson fought in an eight-round boxing match in entrance of an estimated crowd of greater than 70,000 folks on the Dallas Cowboys’ AT&T Stadium. There was additionally a reported 108 million stay world viewers on Netflix – the platform the occasion streamed on.

Paul, 27, is now 5-0 since struggling his first professional loss, which got here towards Tommy Fury again in 2023. He’s 11-1 in his complete professional boxing profession. In the meantime. Tyson, 58, fought professionally for the primary time since his loss to Kevin McBride in 2005. He did compete in an exhibition bout in 2020, combating fellow legend Roy Jones Jr. to a draw.