Jake Paul and Mike Tyson squared off on Friday, November 15 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, TX. The contest featured the 27-year-old YouTuber turned pro boxer up against the 58-year-old former undisputed heavyweight champion.
The scheduled for eight rounds boxing match lasted the full distance. In the early rounds, Tyson tried to land his left hook. By the end of the fight, the Brooklyn native took quite few shots and, as can be seen on the photos, looked fairly exhausted.
Paul of Cleveland didn’t manage to knock out his opponent, who was twice his age, but took the victory by unanimous decision. The judges scored the fight 80-72, 79-73, and 79-73.
“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,” Jake Paul said at the post-fight press conference. “So I couldn’t really get him to engage me or slip shots and do something super cool or whatever, but I don’t care about what people have to say. They’re always going to have something to say and that it is what it is.”
“Yeah, definitely,” Paul said when asked whether he took his foot off the gas during the third round. “Definitely a bit. I wanted to give the fans a show, but I didn’t want to hurt someone that didn’t need to be hurt.”
The Paul vs Tyson bout headlined the first boxing fight card live on Netflix.