Mike Tyson lost a lopsided decision to Jake Paul when they went to war atop the Netflix-streamed boxing event last Friday night in Arlington, Texas, a slow and sluggish performance that had fight fans wondering what happened to this power-punching maniac.
He ran headfirst into “El Gallo,” that’s what happened.
“People are like, ‘Oh yeah, it’s rigged because look at him on the pads but he didn’t do this in the fight,’ because someone is f*cking punching back you dumb f*cks,” Paul said on Impaulsive. “People don’t realize my power, and my jab and my speed and my ability, and my footwork to get out of the way of those punches, so then all of a sudden he’s throwing at, literally, air. He can’t land those punches on me. I mean, what do they want? They just want me to lose. That’s the only way they would’ve thought it was entertaining.”
Perhaps fight fans were drunk on nostalgia.
“This is fighting, this is the sport,” Paul continued. “Sometimes there’s going to be NFL games where they score 10 points each and it’s f*cking boring. What happened, happened. All possibilities are there when you go into a fight. He was hard to hit. He was elusive. I was missing a lot of punches. I don’t know how he gets off to the side like that. I wish he had put up a better fight so that I could’ve risen more and done more, and he was surviving. That was the only thing I didn’t like.”
It’s worth pointing out that Tyson was unable to walk unassisted earlier this year and wound up hospitalized just a few months before the fight. The fact that a 58 year-old pugilist who is physically and mentally fried lasted all eight rounds is nothing short of miraculous.
I guess it’s time to pick on somebody your own size age.