Jake Paul will abandon his quest to determine himself as an up-and-coming cruiserweight and return to the freak present struggle circuit for a blockbuster boxing match in opposition to former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson. Their headlining showdown will stream LIVE on Netflix on Sat., July 20, 2024 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.
“It’s loopy to assume that in my second professional struggle, I went viral for knocking out Nate Robinson on Mike Tyson’s undercard. Now, lower than 4 years later, I’m stepping as much as face Tyson myself to see if I’ve what it takes to beat one in all boxing’s most infamous fighters and largest icons,” Paul stated in immediately’s launch. “Inside simply two and a half years of founding MVP, we’re about to supply the largest struggle in historical past, a struggle within the largest NFL stadium within the US, broadcast stay, on the largest streaming platform on the earth – a testomony to all we’ve completed in such a brief period of time.”
Paul, 27, made his boxing debut with a thunderous knockout victory over NBA star Nate Robinson again in late 2020, which helped the 57 year-old Tyson hit 1.2 million pay-per-view (PPV) buys for his exhibition match in opposition to fellow pugilist Roy Jones Jr. in Los Angeles.
Within the 4 years since that “candy science” debut, “The Downside Baby” is 9-1 with six knockouts. That features final weekend’s destruction of growing old oil rigger Jake Bourland within the “Serrano vs. Meinke” co-main occasion in Puerto Rico (highlights right here).
“I’m very a lot trying ahead to entering into the ring with Jake Paul on the AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas,” Tyson stated. “He’s grown considerably as a boxer over time, so it is going to be a whole lot of enjoyable to see what the desire and ambition of a ‘child’ can do with the expertise and aptitude of a GOAT. It’s a full circle second that shall be past thrilling to observe; as I began him on his boxing journey on the undercard of my struggle with Roy Jones and now I plan to complete him.”
There’s no manner Tyson wrote that however I assume it doesn’t matter.
The exhibition bout in opposition to Jones Jr. marked the final time Tyson noticed motion contained in the ring. “Iron” Mike beforehand informed the fight sport media that he was retired from boxing and wouldn’t be making one other comeback; nonetheless, it seems the attract of a Paul struggle — or maybe the payday that comes with it — was an excessive amount of to withstand.
Time to see if the “bully” can lastly get bullied.
