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The Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson boxing spectacle is less than a month away, scheduled to stream live on Netflix on Fri., Nov. 15, 2024 from inside AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. There are serious concerns about the health of the 58-year-old long retired boxing champion, but like it or not, it’s likely to be the most-watched boxing match of the year.
Paul enters as the favorite, but the latest clip from Mike Tyson’s training camp for “The Problem Child” may change some hearts and minds. Tyson looks fast firing live combinations against his training partner, and a big left hook at the end sits his opponent down. “I got a lot in me,” a fired up Tyson exclaims. “I’m just getting started.”
I’m just getting started.#PaulTyson pic.twitter.com/ZdDwQ8FbBR
— Mike Tyson (@MikeTyson) October 23, 2024
The video garnered a strong reaction online and many sound confident that Jake Paul is due for an unplanned nap. It’s a good vote of confidence in “Iron” Mike, who revealed back in September that he was having difficulty walking ahead of his training camp. The match will be his first professionally sanctioned bout since June 2005.
As for Paul, he was last seen pummeling undersized bare knuckle star Mike Perry back in July. This match up remains in the usual Paul playbook of fighting an older athlete, but at least this time he won’t have a huge size advantage.
Insomnia
This is absolutely Tony Ferguson 101.
If Tony Ferguson done this type of conditioning he still would be a CHAMP pic.twitter.com/6TiknnlDGA
— MrTestoestrogen (@MrTestoestrogen) October 22, 2024
I like the creativity in these pillow exchanges.
This is what I’m talking about pic.twitter.com/9Modx16whb
— Dovy (@DovySimuMMA) October 22, 2024
All the best to the Fury family, this is awful.
Tyson Fury has revealed that his wife Paris Fury suffered a miscarriage the day before the Oleksandr Usyk fight: “I am not making excuses but she was six months pregnant. It’s not like a small miscarriage at the beginning, you have to physically give birth to a dead child, on…
— Michael Benson (@MichaelBensonn) October 23, 2024
Sam Alvey and not understanding things feels like an iconic duo.
Why didn’t Sam Alvey opt out of the lawsuit? pic.twitter.com/3wLk0Ifodn
— FullContactMTWF (@FullContactMTWF) October 23, 2024
How hard is this to accomplish?
everyone be quiet petr wants to show us something ??? pic.twitter.com/tejFK6pJDv
— yoel’s fused neck the 1st (@Petrszn) October 22, 2024
I am continually impressed by Ilia Topuria’s boxing, but Nick Diaz may not be.
The SPEED of Ilia Topuria ??#UFC308 | Oct 26, 5PM | LIVE on TNT Sports Box Office ?? https://t.co/uXQAMHNTBd pic.twitter.com/Ob6rkaLzUf
— UFC on TNT Sports (@ufcontnt) October 23, 2024
https://t.co/Fb8LNDlZgs pic.twitter.com/dx8wuRYEAC
— caposa (@Grabaka_Hitman) October 23, 2024
Cameron Smotherman had to pull a “veteran move” to make his UFC debut happen, but it paid off!
“I had to work some trickery…pulled a DC”
Cameron Smotherman (@Lilcampster) explains how he took a page out of Daniel Cormier’s playbook to put the UFC at ease about his weight cut ahead of his short notice fight at #UFCVegas99
Source: MMA Today w/@DinThomas & @AlanJouban pic.twitter.com/7DvBAn87G1
— MMA on SiriusXM (@MMAonSiriusXM) October 22, 2024
I get that Dana White hates the idea of an open air venue in South Africa for exactly this reason, but could you imagine how funny a Dricus Du Plessis fight would be in similar circumstance?!?
Heavy rain during a Thai Fight League event today. This is Cinema pic.twitter.com/O9R7EI09bW
— Matysek (@Matysek88) October 20, 2024
Slips, rips, and KO clips
Amirzhanov would appear to have the perfect build for hitting ninja chokes.
Ullubiy Amirzhanov slaps on a 2nd round ninja choke to render Samir Akhmedov unconscious. Amirzhanov now 4-0 as a pro #UAEWarriors55 pic.twitter.com/2cnd8thEGp
— caposa (@Grabaka_Hitman) October 22, 2024
A lovely 1-1-2.
Magomedov finishes it early wow #LFA194 pic.twitter.com/Jg8Ey4l8o7
— Deee Black (@Deee_Black_) October 19, 2024
I don’t know what the rules were, but it’s nice to see Sumo get a win in combat sports.
sumo > kickboxing #JMAEXPO pic.twitter.com/YYsH9nVVpq
— Benjamin (@AJKFenjoyer) October 19, 2024
Random Land
I pray for the chance to write a final sentence like this.
Hell of a twist here. pic.twitter.com/TPYM5CR8GY
— the idiot tax (@TheIdiotTax) October 22, 2024
Midnight Music: Hip-hop, 1991
Sleep well Maniacs! More martial arts madness is always on the way.