Former undisputed world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson is scheduled to have his first professionally sanctioned boxing bout in practically 20 years when he’s set to sq. off in opposition to YouTuber and actor turned boxer, Jake Paul.
Tyson grew to become the youngest boxer in historical past to win a serious heavyweight title when he was simply 20 years outdated, all the best way again in 1986. One after the other, Tyson received all three main titles of his day (the WBA, WBC, and IBF), and he moreover earned a sound declare to the lineage when he stopped Michael Spinks in a single spherical again in June 1988. At that time Iron Mike was the baddest man on the planet.
However Tyson’s reign got here to a sudden and abrupt finish by the hands of Buster Douglas. After that, Tyson’s profession fell aside. He was out of motion for greater than 4 years, and when he returned, regardless of regaining the WBA and WBC titles, he was by no means the identical boxer. Tyson’s final skilled loss in opposition to Kevin McBride occurred in June 2005.
So by the point the 58 yr outdated Mike Tyson enters the ring in opposition to the 27 yr outdated Jake Paul, it is going to have been practically 20 years since Tyson final had an expert match. To place issues in perspective right here, Tyson received his first main world championship in November 1986, and Paul wasn’t even born till January 1997. It’s insane! Paul was born in between Tyson’s first loss in opposition to Holyfield, and the notorious chunk struggle that befell when Paul was simply 5 months outdated.
Thus far, Paul has 11 skilled fights, profitable 10, with 7 of these wins coming inside the space. Most of his fights have been in opposition to guys who weren’t skilled boxers. In his most up-to-date struggle again in July, Paul received by sixth spherical stoppage in opposition to Mike Perry, an MMA boxer and in addition a naked knuckle boxer. Satirically, that was the date that Paul was initially scheduled to face Iron Mike, however that struggle was pushed again to November after Tyson suffered an ulcer flare-up on an airplane, and medical professionals suggested him to not struggle till after he recovered from the episode. All the state of affairs is mighty unusual throughout. On one hand you have got a former all time nice who’s actually 35 years faraway from his greatest combating days, and alternatively you have got a younger man in his bodily prime, who has slightly boxing expertise, regardless of by no means competing wherever remotely approaching the elite stage.
Can 58 yr outdated Iron Mike Tyson flip again the clock and beat Jake Paul?
This version of Rummy’s Nook will try and reply that query, whereas additionally offering a fast preview for the upcoming struggle between Mike Tyson and Jake Paul, which might be streamed reside on Netflix on November fifteenth. Please watch and benefit from the video for one man’s opinion. That is Rummy’s Nook (produced and narrated by Geoffrey Ciani).
