Tyson will face Paul in a boxing match at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas on July 20 in the main event of the card to be streamed on Netflix.
jake paul He rose to fame in combat sports when he defeated former NBA player Nate Robinson on the undercard of the fight. exhibition boxing Of Mike Tyson Against Roy Jones Jr. in 2020.
Now, PaulYouTuber turned boxer, and tysonFormer heavyweight boxing champions will reunite as opponents in what will be the most polarizing spectacle of the recent crossover boxing craze yet.
Officials told ESPN that Tyson will face Paul in a boxing match on July 20 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, in the main event of the card to be broadcast on Netflix. This will be the streaming company’s first foray into combat sports and third live sporting event overall. Paul’s Most Valuable Promotions (MVP) signed a deal with Netflix for a boxing card last November 1, according to MVP co-founder Nakisa Biederian.
“Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson is a once-in-a-lifetime dream matchup and I expect it to be the most watched boxing event in modern boxing history,” Biederian said in a statement.
It’s unclear how the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR), which sanctions and regulates combat sports in the state, will handle a showdown that will surely draw a lot of criticism and attention. It has not yet been decided whether it will be classified as a professional fight or an exhibition.
Tyson is one of the best (and scariest) heavyweight boxers of all time. But his age is 57 years. Paul, 27, is three decades younger than her.
Tyson was in good shape when he fought Jones Jr. in an exhibition boxing match on November 28, 2020, and he also looked good in training videos on social media. Tyson has not fought professionally since 2005 and was stopped twice in a row before hanging up his gloves. The New York native was the undisputed heavyweight champion from 1987 to 1990.
Tyson said in a statement, “(Paul) has grown tremendously as a boxer over the years, so it will be great fun to see what the will and ambition of a ‘kid’ combined with the experience and ability of a GOAT can do.” Can.” statement. “It’s a full-circle moment that will be very exciting to watch, because I started his boxing journey on the undercard of my fight with Roy Jones, and now I plan on finishing him.”
Paul (9-1, 6 KOs) defeated former UFC stars such as Nate Diaz, Anderson Silva and Tyron Woodley following his knockout of Robinson in big-money main events. The Ohio native has since started fighting boxers who are more experienced than him in order to gain experience with the aim of competing for a world championship one day. Paul, who turned professional just four years ago, is coming off back-to-back first-round knockouts against journeymen Andre August and Ryan Borland.
“It’s crazy to think that in my second professional fight I went viral for defeating Nate Robinson on the undercard of Mike Tyson,” Paul said in a statement. “Now, less than four years later, I’m going to face Tyson himself to see if I have what it takes to defeat one of the most notorious fighters and one of the biggest icons in boxing. Has the capacity. Just two and a half years after founding MVP, we are about to produce the biggest fight in history, a fight in the largest NFL stadium in America, broadcast live on the largest streaming platform. The Greatest in the World: A Testimony for All. We have achieved this in such a short time.”
Paul appeared in an episode of the Netflix series “Untold” last year. Netflix, which has been moving aggressively into live sports, has been airing The Netflix Cup, a competition between Formula 1 drivers and golfers, and The Netflix Slam, a tennis match, for the past four months.
“Mike Tyson is one of the greatest icons in boxing history and Jake Paul is one of the greatest destroyers in boxing history,” Gabe Spitzer, Netflix’s vice president of nonfiction sports, said in a statement. “There will be pure drama in the ring on Saturday, July 20 in Texas. We are thrilled to partner with the most valuable promotion for this historic event and can’t wait for these two to face off in front of fans around the world on Netflix “