Mike Tyson is combating Jake Paul this summer season on Netflix and the haters can’t stand it.
However don’t count on the avalanche of criticism to faze “Iron” Mike, who takes delight in the truth that he’s promoting out the AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, which has a capability of 80,000 seats (or as much as 105,000 with standing room entry).
Add to that his BILLIONS of pre-fight views.
“I’m 58 and what? I’m getting billions of views from simply speaking to someone from combating.” Tyson stated in an interview with Reuters. “Everyone, even a lot of the athletes, they’re jealous. That’s wack. ‘He’s 58, he’s 57.’ I say in your prime, you couldn’t draw 1,000,000 folks, man. What are you speaking? You couldn’t promote out an area. Who, at 58, may promote out an 80,000-seat area?”
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.
4 years later they’ll come face-to-face, establishing a brand new “remaining boss” within the course of.
“Why you suppose he desires to combat me and never anyone else?” Tyson continued. “Everyone desires to combat him. All of the boxers need to combat him. But when he fought them, the one folks that may come are the folks that like him. The opposite guys, their mother and father may not even come watch them. That’s simply conserving it actual. They’re too boring for his or her youngsters to look at. It’s like watching grass develop.”
The exhibition bout in opposition to Jones Jr. marked the final time Tyson noticed motion contained in the ring. “Iron” Mike beforehand instructed the fight sport media that he was retired from boxing and wouldn’t be making one other comeback; nevertheless, it seems the attract of a Paul combat — 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.
