
“Fighting Words” — Jake Paul beats Mike Tyson: Are you not entertained?
David Greisman suggests that whatever you got from Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson on Friday will have depended largely on your expectations going into it
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David Greisman suggests that whatever you got from Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson on Friday will have depended largely on your expectations going into it

Owen Lewis argues that the people who watched Jake Paul and Mike Tyson share a boxing ring for eight rounds are not to blame for the spectacle going ahead. It is instead the fault of the boxers and their respective teams

“Iron” Mike Tyson may have disappointed many with his performance against Jake Paul on Friday, but ultimately the Hall of Famer’s 58-year-old body gave out.

Friday's Jake Paul-Mike Tyson boxing event played in front of a massive international audience, peaking at 65 million households watching simultaneously, according to Most Valuable Promotions.

The numbers don’t like and Jake Paul’s eight-rounder with Mike Tyson was a financial juggernaut.

With time getting on, in the early hours of Saturday morning, multi-award winning writer Elliot Worsell was faced with the decision as to whether he should set his alarm to see if Mike Tyson had anything left to offer against Jake Paul.


It was sad, unedifying, even boring. But Friday's main event at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, wasn’t quite the humiliation it threatened to be, as Jake Paul won but Mike Tyson, 58, finished on his feet.

In the case of the Mike Tyson-Jake Paul event in Texas on Friday night, there seems to be those watching with their eyes wide open and those pretending not to see; the latter are generally those being asked questions by the former about what the damage might look like.

Many fans might not yet know Mike Russell, the Petaluma-based cruiserweight who’s now spent two training camps with Mike Tyson over the past four years—including the current one, leading up to Tyson’s upcoming fight against Jake Paul.