The rescheduled fight between Mike Tyson and Jake Paul is drawing ever closer and 58-year-old former world heavyweight champion Tyson has lifted the lid on his training
Mike Tyson’s preparations for his fight with Jake Paul have been kept under wraps at times, but the 58-year-old has shared footage from the gym along with a message for his opponent.
Tyson and Paul were initially due to face off in July, only for the bout to be postponed on medical advice. Former world heavyweight champion Tyson suffered an ulcer flare-up on a flight, with the hotly-anticipated bout pushed back to November as a result.
YouTuber-turned-boxer Paul is less than half the age of his opponent, but has been involved in what he described as an ‘intense’ training camp. He recently released some footage of his own preparations, with some warning he doesn’t look in tip-top shape ahead of November 15, and Tyson has now responded to the big talk of the 27-year-old.
Footage of Tyson in the gym has been shared on the American’s Instagram page. “While Jake keeps talking, I’m going to keep training. Going to f*** him up,” the caption reads.
Speaking to Sports Illustrated in the lead-up to the meeting, Paul indicated he is optimistic about how things have been going. “It’s been going amazing. Intense camp,” he said.
“I’m sparring 300lb guys back-to-back. So my body is aching, my bones are sore. They punch a lot harder and just wrestling with them in the ring and sparring is very difficult, but on November 15 I’m going to be prepared. We’ve trained hard to make the fight easy.”
Plenty of fans think Tyson will do the business, though. “Gettem Mike, show him and today’s generation what they missed out on when you were in your prime,” one comment below the 58-year-old’s Instagram video read. “Even 10% of Mike Tyson is enough to handle this kid.”
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Tyson claimed 50 wins and six losses during his professional boxing career, though the last of those fights came all the way back in 2005. Despite Tyson’s age, though, former opponent Larry Holmes – who suffered the only knockout of his career when he faced Tyson in 1988 – has fired a warning to Paul.
“Tyson ducks, moves his head, and gets in close,” Holmes told OLBG. “He’ll take a punch or two to get in close, and then once he’s up close he’ll go to work on the body, and then that head.
“Mike knocked the s*** out of me, he hit me so hard I went ‘wooooo’. And he beat me. It was embarrassing. I remember the right hand he hit me with – I thought at the time ‘he should be locked up’ because of the power, and he kept on coming, growling like Joe Frazier. That’s the fight I’m expecting Mike to put on. Jake has to survive that.”
