2 weeks ago
This summer's gathering betwixt YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul and erstwhile world champion Mike Tyson has been officially sanctioned arsenic a master fight.
It intends nan result of nan bout, which is scheduled to return spot successful Texas connected 20 July, will look connected some their records.
Tyson, whose master profession ended successful 2005, astir precocious competed successful an accumulation bout successful 2020 and will move 58 3 weeks earlier facing Paul.
Paul, meanwhile, hit Ryan Bourland successful his 10th master conflict successful March.
"Mike Tyson and Jake Paul signed connected to conflict each different pinch nan desire to do truthful successful a sanctioned master conflict that would person a definitive outcome," Nakisa Bidarian of MVP Promotions said.
Tyson was nan first heavyweight boxer to simultaneously clasp nan WBA, WBC and IBF titles successful 1987 but his reign arsenic unified champion came to a daze extremity successful 1990 arsenic he was beaten by Buster Douglas successful 1 of nan biggest upsets successful boxing history.
Although he concisely regained nan WBA and WBC titles successful 1996, he past suffered back-to-back defeats to Evander Holyfield - nan 2nd ending arsenic Tyson was disqualified for biting portion of Holyfield's receptor off.
Tyson's ineligible issues person included a rape condemnation successful 1992, for which he served 3 years of a six-year situation sentence, and successful 1999 he served a 3rd of a 12-month condemnation for a roadworthy rage assault.
He sewage backmost into style to play his portion successful an engaging tie pinch chap erstwhile world champion Roy Jones Jr successful 2020, and his conflict pinch Paul will return spot successful Arlington's AT&T Stadium, location of nan NFL's Dallas Cowboys, which has a seating capacity of 80,000.
Paul has won 9 of his 10 fights, mostly against ex-UFC fighters, pinch his solitary conclusion coming against British heavyweight boxer Tommy Fury successful February 2023.
