Former undisputed world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson is scheduled to have his first professionally sanctioned boxing bout in almost 20 years when he’s set to sq. off in opposition to YouTuber and actor turned boxer, Jake Paul.
Tyson turned the youngest boxer in historical past to win a significant heavyweight title when he was simply 20 years previous, all the best way again in 1986. One after the other, Tyson gained all three main titles of his day (the WBA, WBC, and IBF), and he moreover earned a sound declare to the lineage when he stopped Michael Spinks in a single spherical again in June 1988. At that time Iron Mike was the baddest man on the planet.
However Tyson’s reign got here to a sudden and abrupt finish by the hands of Buster Douglas. After that, Tyson’s profession fell aside. He was out of motion for greater than 4 years, and when he returned, regardless of regaining the WBA and WBC titles, he was by no means the identical boxer. Tyson’s final skilled loss in opposition to Kevin McBride occurred in June 2005.
So by the point the 58 12 months previous Mike Tyson enters the ring in opposition to the 27 12 months previous Jake Paul, it should have been almost 20 years since Tyson final had an expert match. To place issues in perspective right here, Tyson gained his first main world championship in November 1986, and Paul wasn’t even born till January 1997. It’s insane! Paul was born in between Tyson’s first loss in opposition to Holyfield, and the notorious chew battle that occurred when Paul was simply 5 months previous.
Up to now, Paul has 11 skilled fights, successful 10, with 7 of these wins coming inside the gap. Most of his fights have been in opposition to guys who weren’t skilled boxers. In his most up-to-date battle again in July, Paul gained by sixth spherical stoppage in opposition to Mike Perry, an MMA boxer and likewise a naked knuckle boxer. Mockingly, that was the date that Paul was initially scheduled to face Iron Mike, however that battle was pushed again to November after Tyson suffered an ulcer flare-up on an airplane, and medical professionals suggested him to not battle till after he recovered from the episode. The whole scenario is mighty unusual throughout. On one hand you might have a former all time nice who’s actually 35 years faraway from his finest preventing days, and however you might have a younger man in his bodily prime, who has a little bit boxing expertise, regardless of by no means competing anyplace remotely approaching the elite degree.
Can 58 12 months previous Iron Mike Tyson flip again the clock and beat Jake Paul?
This version of Rummy’s Corner will try and reply that query, whereas additionally offering a fast preview for the upcoming battle between Mike Tyson and Jake Paul, which might be streamed dwell on Netflix on November fifteenth. Please watch and benefit from the video for one man’s opinion. That is Rummy’s Nook (produced and narrated by Geoffrey Ciani).
