Mike Tyson’s return to the ring at 58-years-old is coming in for a lot of criticism online, but he isn’t seeing any of it.
The iconic heavyweight world champion will face YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul on November 15 in the first boxing match to be broadcast live on Netflix. Many fans feel that he is too old to be making a comeback, particularly given how he has look in his last few fights.
Tyson’s final professional bout in 2005 saw him quit on the stool against the relatively unknown Kevin McBride. He returned for an exhibition bout in 2006 before taking 14 years out of the ring and coming back to face Roy Jones Jr in 2020, which ended in a draw.
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The initial date for Jake Paul vs Mike Tyson was set for July 20, but the bout had to be postponed when the boxing icon suffered an ulcer flare-up during a flight. He required medical assistance and was told by doctors that he must take a break from training.
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However, he insisted that he was fine and that the fight should go ahead. Ultimately, the decision was made to push the date back to November 15, and it appears that there are now minimal roadblocks stopping the bout from happening.
The fight will appear on both men’s professional records, despite having slightly altered rules that include two-minute rounds and 14-ounce gloves. Paul is 10-1 as a professional and competes actively, while Tyson’s 50-6 hasn’t changed since that 2005 bout with McBride.
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Ahead of the fight, one of the big controversies surrounding the bout is Tyson’s advanced age. He turned 58 this summer, and last competed in even a low-stakes exhibition bout back in November of 2020.
The last time he held heavyweight gold was the late 90s, when he defeated Frank Bruno for the WBC title at the age of 29. Jake Paul was not born at the time of that bout, and many feel that it is irresponsible to place fighters with such an age gap in the ring with one another.
However, if any of the critiques are written online, ‘Iron Mike’ won’t be reading them. He was recently asked a series of questions by Netflix for a social media video, one of which included questions about his activity on social media.
He was asked by the social media team “What’s the funniest thing you’ve read about yourself on the internet?” Tyson replied that he can’t read what is written about him online because he isn’t sure how to access the internet.
“I don’t read the internet or look at the internet,” he noted. “I don’t know how to get on the internet. I know how to turn it on but I wouldn’t know what to press and how to press it or how to spell to get on the internet, I wouldn’t know how to do that, no.”
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