Mike Tyson looked like a terrible, miserable caricature of the fighter he once was, losing to YouTuber boxer Jake Paul by a wide eight-round unanimous decision on Friday night in a broadcast that was riddled with problems on Netflix. . Fans were angry about the release video constantly, and it got worse when the Tyson vs. Paul fight started.
Tyson has struggled with injuries
After the fight, Tyson said he was dealing with injuries, but added: “I don’t want to make excuses.” What is he talking about? The only mention of Tyson having injury problems was him making an apology.
The fight showed how little was left of the 58-year-old Mike Tyson (50-7, 44 KOs) staggered in the third by three left hooks from Paul (11-1, 7 KOs) and fighting through the five rounds remaining. .
The eighth round was the cherry on top of a miserable evening for the fans. Neither fighter did anything as the unhappy crowd of 72,000+ booed at AT& Stadium in Arlington.
Tyson looks like a dinosaur
The scores for the match were 80-72, 79-73 and 79-73, all for the 27-year-old Jake, who was too young for the 60-year-old Tyson. It wasn’t that Jake was great. It was more a case of Tyson being as old as the extinct dinosaurs, which is where he should be. It doesn’t belong in a ring. The way Tyson looked, he needed to be in a nursing home.
Tyson had trouble around the ring with his tired old legs and looked tired in the championship rounds between six and eight. The strange part is that Jake wasn’t even fighting hard, and even Tyson looked like he’d been through an old fight 15 times. He was so tired that the fight had to be stopped.
Paul seemed that he was resting on his fists and intentionally did not go after Tyson after he was injured in the third. All it would have taken was a short 10-second burst of punches from Jake, and he would have knocked out Tyson.
“I tried to do evil,” Jake said after the fight.
What was interesting is that Mike hinted that he will return to wrestling to fight again, mentioning Jake’s brother, Logan Paul. A fight between them will not sell after tonight’s train.
Netflix streams were frozen
Fans were outraged and complained throughout tonight’s Tyson-Paul event about Netflix streams freezing, preventing them from watching the action without constant interruptions.
If Netflix continues to do boxing in the future, they will need to solve the problem of release so that fans will want to order their events.
