Joe Rogan was worried about Mike Tyson’s health when he fought Jake Paul.
[autotag]Joe Rogan[/autotag] was worried about [autotag]Mike Tyson[/autotag]’s health going up against [autotag]Jake Paul[/autotag].
58-year-old Tyson appeared to suffer little to no damage against Paul, but lost a unanimous decision in their Netflix boxing match headliner less than two weeks ago at AT&T Stadium.
“I’m glad he got to that fight and didn’t get hurt,” Rogan said on a recent episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast. “I was hoping he would knock Jake Paul out just because that’s the Cinderella story.”
Rogan’s support for Tyson is no knock on Paul. The UFC commentator and popular podcast host praised the YouTuber-turned-boxer for the success and eyes he’s drawn to the sport.
“I don’t have anything against Jake Paul,” Rogan said. “I like Jake Paul. I think what he’s doing is genius. I think what he’s doing is, like – I mean, he’s making insane amounts of money, he’s having a great time, he’s a legit boxer.
“He’s absolutely a legit boxer. If you do (hate), you’re an idiot. But the reality is, Mike is 58 years old, and I was worried. I love that guy, and he was a hero of mine when I was a kid.”
Francis Ngannou had a hard time watching good friend Mike Tyson fight Jake Paul.
[autotag]Francis Ngannou[/autotag] had a hard time watching his good friend [autotag]Mike Tyson[/autotag] fight [autotag]Jake Paul[/autotag].
58-year-old Tyson managed to avoid taking any serious shots, but lost a unanimous decision to Paul in their Netflix boxing match headliner Friday at AT&T Stadium.
Ngannou, who had Tyson in his corner for his boxing debut against Tyson Fury, credited the boxing legend for going the distance with Paul, but didn’t enjoy seeing this version of him.
“It just hurt me to see Mike there in that situation,” Ngannou told TMZ Sports. “Like, knowing Mike, what he can do and see him there with Jake Paul, and Jake Paul like – hey man, like, that sight just hurt me. Although, you have to give it to Mike, man.
“This is 58-year-old Mike Tyson that’s been doing this sport since 12 years old, I believe, and to still be able to stand up on his own, at this age, I think it’s impressive. Stand up against a young 27-year-old guy, even though I would say he wouldn’t be at that level, but wasn’t that much of a threat for Mike. You have to give it up to him.”
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[autotag]Jon Jones[/autotag] vs. [autotag]Stipe Miocic[/autotag] was a meaningless UFC heavyweight title fight.
UFC 309 proved Jon Jones would lose to [autotag]Tom Aspinall[/autotag].
Things are about to get ugly between Jon Jones and [autotag]Dana White[/autotag].
[autotag]Michael Chandler[/autotag] should stop acting so desperate to fight [autotag]Conor McGregor[/autotag].
[autotag]Bo Nickal[/autotag]’s UFC 309 performance was a huge disappointment.
[autotag]Jake Paul [/autotag]vs. [autotag]Mike Tyson[/autotag]: What the hell was that?
The UFC totally redeemed itself with the UFC 310/UFC Tampa shakeup.
Mike Tyson’s entire butt uncensored on TV? Jake Paul definitely didn’t see that coming. None of us did!
Raise your hand if you were completely caught off guard by [autotag]Mike Tyson[/autotag]’s whole butt appearing on Netflix uncensored. All of us, right? Definitely didn’t see that coming!
But it happened last Friday night shortly before Tyson was set to fight [autotag]Jake Paul[/autotag] in the Netflix boxing headliner at the Dallas Cowboys’ AT&T Stadium.
What was supposed to be a nice father-son-moment, with Tyson being interviewed in his locker room by son Amir Tyson, went viral for the wrong reason once the camera zoomed out at the conclusion of the interview. When that happened, Tyson’s entire 58-year-old butt was on our screens as he turned and walked away.
Paul was in his dressing room warming up with the Netflix live stream on a TV, and he, too, saw Tyson’s butt in real time.
Check out Paul’s hilarious reaction below (via Instagram):
Dana White says Mike Tyson proved him wrong against Jake Paul.
NEW YORK – [autotag]Dana White[/autotag] says [autotag]Mike Tyson[/autotag] proved him wrong against [autotag]Jake Paul[/autotag].
Although 58-year-old Tyson lost a unanimous decision to Paul in their boxing match Friday at AT&T Stadium, he looked competitive for the first couple of rounds before slowing down.
“Mike Tyson was right and I was wrong,” White told MMA Junkie and other reporters post-fight at UFC 309.
“I told him, ‘Mike, you’re basically 60 years old.’ He’s like, ‘You honestly think this f*cking kid is going to do anything to me? He’s not good, he’s not going to f*cking knock me out, he’s not going to do this.’ You saw him. He tripped when he was walking down the thing, he had a hard time walking up the stairs. He had a knee brace on, and Jake Paul couldn’t do anything to him.
“He made a ton of money, and I know people are mad if you stayed home on a Saturday night, but you didn’t pay for it. You know what I mean? When Mike Tyson shows up, everybody makes money. Jake Paul is f*cking – I don’t have to tell you guys. You guys know. Mike Tyson is the A+++ side of that thing, and he was right. Jake Paul couldn’t do sh*t to him.”
It’s probably not wise for Mike Tyson to step foot in the ring beyond the Jake Paul fight, but it’s also not out of the question.
ARLINGTON, Texas – [autotag]Mike Tyson[/autotag], who struggled to complete eight rounds of boxing Friday night, hinted he might fight again.
The moment came during a post-fight interview, when Netflix reporter Ariel Helwani asked the 58-year-old Tyson if his loss to Jake Paul by unanimous decision at AT&T Stadium could be his last fight.
“I don’t think so,’’ replied the former world heavyweight champion.
Maybe Tyson just needed a good night’s sleep. Or time to reflect. Or to confer with trusted advisers.
But there are reasons to think his answer was more than a stray thought.
James Spraggins, a personal trainer who worked with Tyson for about three years, pointed to a “Baddest Man Over 50’’ Tournament. Championship Rounds, a news and media website, in February posted on Instagram about the prospective event.
On Feb. 6, From The Stands, a media group that covers MMA, posted on Instagram:
“Per sources, the four combat sports legends that have been targeted for the ‘baddest man over 50’ tournament are Mark Hunt, Mike Tyson, David Tua and Lennox Lewis. Three out of the four targeted participants have verbally agreed on the idea.”
Tyson has not commented publicly about the tournament, but the concept is not new to him.
A similar idea was kicked around in 2020 when Tyson was involved with the formation of Mike Tyson’s Legends Only League, LLC.
The company launched with Tyson’s exhibition fight with Roy Jones Jr. in November 2020, when he was 54 and Jones was 51.
At the time, representatives of the company said the Tyson-Jones fight generated 1.6 million pay per views at $49.99 apiece. But all of this was long before Friday night, when Tyson looked more like the Oldest Man on the Planet rather than than the Baddest Man on the Planet.
When Helwani asked Tyson what he had in mind, Tyson suggested he might fight Paul’s older brother, Logan, who was in the ring and looked shocked.
“I’ll kill you, Mike,’’ Logan said.
Tyson grinned.
“Then it’s on,’’ Tyson replied, looking too exhausted to go another round or make any long-term decisions.
Boxing legend Mike Tyson says the health issue he encountered before the Jake Paul fight nearly killed him.
Boxing legend [autotag]Mike Tyson[/autotag] is proud despite defeat, but partially because he overcame a medical issue, the extent of which had not been publicly revealed pre-fight.
“This is one of those situations when you lost but still won,” Tyson wrote. “I’m grateful for last night. No regrets to get in ring one last time.”
“I almost died in June. Had 8 blood transfusions. Lost half my blood and 25lbs in hospital and had to fight to get healthy to fight so I won.”
“To have my children see me stand toe to toe and finish 8 rounds with a talented fighter half my age in front of a packed Dallas Cowboy stadium is an experience that no man has the right to ask for. Thank you.”
It’s presumed the incident Tyson is referring to is the one that delayed the fight with Paul. Initially, the bout was expected to take place in July but was delayed after Tyson suffered a medical emergency on a flight due to an ulcer.
Tyson spoke about the incident in various interviews, and laid out graphic details (like him defecating a tar-like substance), but did not mention the seriousness using this vernacular.
Tyson, 58, lost a unanimous decision to Paul at AT&T Stadium in Dallas. The fight was largely lopsided as the age and cardio difference was glaringly evident.
This is one of those situations when you lost but still won. I’m grateful for last night. No regrets to get in ring one last time.
I almost died in June. Had 8 blood transfusions. Lost half my blood and 25lbs in hospital and had to fight to get healthy to fight so I won.
“It’s funny to say, ‘Conor McGregor is scared of Jake Paul and will never box him,’ but it’s the f*cking truth.”
IRVING, Texas – It’s become old hat for [autotag]Jake Paul[/autotag] to try and lure UFC star [autotag]Conor McGregor[/autotag] into a boxing match, so it’s only natural that the YouTuber-turned-professional-prizefighter would use the afterglow of his win over Mike Tyson to do it again.
With manager Nakisa Bidarian by his side during the post-fight news conference, Paul was asked if he’s interested in setting up a fight with McGregor, and the response was almost daring from both men.
“Yeah, he’ll never do that, though,” Paul said, before Bidarian chimed in: “One, he’s under contract. And two, he won’t do that. He knows better.”
Then Paul continued, “And it’s funny to say, ‘Conor McGregor is scared of Jake Paul and will never box him,’ but it’s the f*cking truth. And look at him go toe to toe with Nate Diaz, who was easy work for me. It was like a Monday sparring session to beat Nate Diaz’s ass. He doesn’t ever want this smoke with me. It won’t ever happen.”
To Bidarian’s point, McGregor being under exclusive contract with the UFC would complicate matters, as McGregor would need the UFC’s blessing to compete in a boxing match with Paul, something UFC CEO Dana White has said he’s not inclined to do.
While there’s no telling what could come next for Paul, a fight with McGregor is unlikely.
The best thing you can say about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson is that it happened, and nobody got hurt.
ARLINGTON, Texas — You didn’t really think he was going to do it, did you?
Most of you out there who were rooting for [autotag]Mike Tyson[/autotag] to knock out [autotag]Jake Paul[/autotag] on Friday night in the boxing match of this weird, substance-free decade we’re living in were probably doing so for one of two reasons.
The first is that you find Paul obnoxious and wanted to see Tyson inflict pain on the YouTube star, which is a perfectly reasonable conclusion.
The second is that a part of you, like me, always yearns to feel whatever you felt back in the late 1980s, when Tyson was the baddest man on the planet. This is not reasonable. If you are old enough to remember where you were when Tyson knocked out Michael Spinks in 91 seconds, then you most likely woke up this morning with a stiff back or a sore knee and a reminder to schedule your colonoscopy.
And none of us watching him have been through 56 professional fights, three years in prison and the kind of hard living that turned Tyson into a washed-up circus act before he walked away — back in 2005.
If you thought a 58-year-old Tyson had a chance to get in the ring and go blow-for-blow with a 27-year-old in his physical prime, albeit one whose only fights have been novelty acts, then you are denying the reality you experience every day.
Getting old is real. It stinks. It physically hurts. And if we’re lucky, it happens to all of us.
Tyson has indeed been incredibly lucky to make it to this point in life, to have stumbled into a lucrative second (or third) act as an entertainer and cannabis salesman.
But a boxer?
He’s not that anymore. Get real. It was never in doubt.
The stadium, the millions watching on Netflix — we’ll get to that in a moment — and really most of America wanted it to happen. Nostalgia has all of us in its grip in one way or another. And that’s why this bout, as ridiculous as the very concept of it was, became the most compelling show boxing has put on in ages. It was irresistible. And in some ways, it really delivered.
AT&T Stadium was packed, even though the vast majority of people in the stands were so far away from the ring they might as well have been in Oklahoma. Mainstream celebrities and content creators were all over the place. It looked and felt like a big-time sporting event, and a couple of the undercard matches were among the most compelling and violent fights you’ll ever see anywhere. (Katie Taylor’s controversial decision over Amanda Serrano was perhaps, pound for pound, the best sporting event of the year, even though the judges got the result completely wrong.)
It was a reminder of why boxing, on occasion, can still reach the highest of highs – even though those moments have become more and more rare as the years go by.
But then came the main event and it was … well, the best thing that you can say is that it happened and nobody got seriously hurt.
Tyson got a couple of good shots in early, and Paul looked scared out of his mind for a round. In the second, Paul kept his distance and stabilized. In the third, Tyson came out aggressive, looking for the knockout punch, and then it came down to the simplest concept in sports.
Young beats old.
Paul did the bare minimum, but he won. He didn’t win because he’s an elite boxer or because he landed a bunch of powerful shots. For all the sideshow inherent in this matchup, Paul won a fairly boring and straightforward decision for one reason — because he was fighting a 58-year-old.
“There was (a) point where I was like, ‘He’s not really engaging back,’ ” Paul said. “I don’t know if he was tired or whatever, and I could just tell his age was showing a little bit.”
Mike Tyson (black gloves) fights Jake Paul (silver gloves) at AT&T Stadium. (Kevin Jairaj, Imagn Images)
Paul hinted that he even backed off a little bit because he didn’t want to embarrass the legend, because he wanted to give the crowd a show. He also said he sprained his ankle three weeks ago and lost training time, which contributed to his lack of aggressiveness. Don’t buy it. Until Paul gets in the ring with a real boxer and proves that he’s something more than a guy who’s pretty decent by celebrity standards, this is what his career is going to be like: One scam after another, trolling us all the way to the bank.
Take solace in the fact that, if you missed it due to Netflix’s embarrassing technical issues, you didn’t miss much.
If there’s any lasting legacy from this circus, it’s the missed opportunity for Netflix to assert itself as a real player in the live sports space. Though the exact scope of the problems is hard to gauge, anecdotal reports on social media from people trying to watch the fight suggest that buffering and freezing and technical errors were rampant.
Folks were angry, and with good reason. When you hype an event this much and can’t deliver a smooth viewing experience, it’s hard to earn that credibility back.
We’ll see where Netflix goes from here. We’ll see if Paul wants to risk his reputation fighting a real professional or slink away with the tens of millions he’s pocketing here and find another trick to help him create content.
But people in the stadium voted with their feet – and they were leaving AT&T Stadium by the thousands before they even announced the winner. It was that obvious and anticlimactic. If you didn’t see it coming, however, that’s your own fault. A 58-year-old former athlete, even an icon, doesn’t belong in the boxing ring.
Let’s hope we never get suckered into something like this again.
Jake Paul carried Mike Tyson in their boxing match, which certainly didn’t go unnoticed by viewers – not that Paul cares.
ARLINGTON, Texas – In the buildup to [autotag]Jake Paul[/autotag] vs. [autotag]Mike Tyson[/autotag], there were questions about the Netflix boxing headliner being a real fight, particularly because it featured a 27-year-old squaring off against a 58-year-old.
For anyone who doubted the legitimacy of Paul vs. Tyson, despite the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation sanctioning it as a fully professional bout, Paul’s words following his unanimous decision win Friday night at AT&T Stadium will surely not sit well.
“Yeah, definitely a bit,” Paul told reporters at the post-fight press conference, when asked if he went easy on Tyson. “I wanted to give the fans a show, but I didn’t want to hurt someone that didn’t need to be hurt.”
Tyson got through the first two of eight, 2-minute rounds relatively OK. And during those combined first four minutes, the fight looked technical. But by the third round, Tyson began to look his age. He was slow and sloppy and hesitant, which allowed Paul to comfortably pick apart Tyson from distance.
As the seventh round got underway, most of the 70,000-plus fans in attendance were booing heavily. The fight ended with boos raining down on Paul and Tyson.
While Paul vs. Tyson is sure to have been one of, if not the most watched event in combat sports history, the immediate reaction on social media was negative.
Paul’s response?
“Thank you for everyone tuning in and coming. I tried to give the best fight I possibly could but when someone’s just surviving in the ring basically, it’s hard to make it exciting,” Paul said. “I couldn’t really get him to engage me or slip shots and do something super cool or whatever. But I don’t care what people have to say. They’re always gonna have something to say, and it is what it is.”
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Paul’s manager, Nakisa Bidarian, also didn’t sweat the crticism, saying the fight was always going to be received negatively unless Tyson pulled out the victory.
“The only way that people would’ve been happy is if Jake lost somehow,” Bidarian said. “That would’ve been like, ‘Oh, what a great fight, Mike’s a legend.’ If he knocked out Mike Tyson, it would’ve been rigged. The fight went to eight rounds, so ‘Oh, Mike wasn’t trying. Oh, it wasn’t good enough.’ It was an unbelievable display between a 58-year-old legend and a 27-year-old relatively young boxer. And he actually outboxed the boxer. Jake Paul outboxed Mike Tyson like he said he was gonna do.”
Added Paul: “What can people say? I told everyone what I was gonna do is give him a boxing lesson.”
For more on the fight, visit MMA Junkie’s hub for Paul vs. Tyson.
