Darts star Gerwyn Price weighs in on Jake Paul vs Mike Tyson with controversial theory

Jake Paul overcame legendary boxer Mike Tyson successful their bout connected Friday evening to widen his grounds to 11-1 but faced disapproval from the warring satellite for the mode of his win

Darts superstar Gerwyn Price has offered a astonishment caller instrumentality connected Jake Paul's boxing abilities pursuing the YouTuber-turned-boxer's win implicit Mike Tyson.

While astir person continued to question Paul's talents, and others person criticised the mode of the 27-year-old's victory, Price has went against the atom with his latest assessment. After the decision triumph implicit Iron Mike, Price suggested that Paul could adjacent taken down Anthony Joshua.

Posting connected his Instagram story, Price said: "I deliberation Jake Paul would bushed Anthony Joshua #JustSaying."

Paul whitethorn person taken down a erstwhile world heavyweight champion successful Tyson but required the scorecards to bash so. The ex-Disney prima prevailed 80-72, 79-73, 79-73, but appeared to instrumentality his ft of the state arsenic the combat wore connected and Tyson posed small menace successful return.

The anticlimatic spectacle was fixed a savage appraisal by erstwhile WBA and IBF super-middleweight champion Carl Froch. The Nottingham-born combatant had nary benignant words for Paul oregon his show and questioned the fighter's abilities.

“It was crap, wasn't it?" Froch said connected his YouTube channel, "Let's beryllium honest, the combat itself was awful…

"It looked similar Mike Tyson turned up conscionable to play his relation successful this small circus. And Jake Paul, helium was either excessively frightened to prosecute and enactment successful adjacent with Mike Tyson oregon helium was being existent to his word, helium didn't privation to wounded him, didn't privation to sound him out.

"But I don't deliberation helium could person done it, I don't deliberation Jake Paul's bully enough. Let's not hide Jake Paul has lone had 1 nonrecreational boxing contention and that was with Tommy Fury and helium mislaid that fight. Tommy Fury's benignant of British level astatine best.

"But yeah, the combat itself was a monolithic anti-climax. It was f***ing crap. It was a discarded of time. I'm gladsome I didn't enactment up precocious to ticker it. All the radical that paid bully wealth to beryllium determination and ticker it, they indispensable beryllium disappointed with that performance.

"I'm not taking thing distant from Mike Tyson. He's 58 years old. He tin lone bash what helium tin do. He's got an aged body.

"But Jake Paul enactment successful a s*** show arsenic well.

"I don't similar the mode he's trying to accidental helium didn't truly effort due to the fact that I deliberation helium did effort astatine moments successful there. He did person a plaything up.

"Jake Paul truly didn't privation to engage. I don't deliberation helium had the vessel to basal successful beforehand of Tyson and effort and bash thing to get him retired of there."