Eddie Hearn responds to boxing fans calling Mike Tyson vs Jake Paul ‘scripted’

Eddie Hearn has dismissed claims from boxing fans who suggest Mike Tyson’s Netflix combat against Jake Paul was scripted.

Paul bushed 58-year-old Tyson via unanimous determination successful their eight-round combat successful Texas past Friday, with each 3 judges scoring the contention 80-72, 79-73 and 79-73 successful favour of the YouTuber turned boxer.

Tyson, a two-time satellite heavyweight champion, landed conscionable 18 of his punches during the fight, while Paul admitted aft his triumph that helium took it casual connected his hostile arsenic the contention unfolded.

Boxing fans person since accused Tyson and Paul of fixing their fight and person shared videos connected societal media highlighting moments wherever Tyson appeared to propulsion backmost his punches.

But Hearn, who promoted Katie Taylor up of her rematch triumph against Amanda Serrano earlier connected Friday evening, has labelled the accusations towards Tyson and Paul arsenic ‘ridiculous’.

‘What happened successful the combat was precisely what I was expecting to happen,’ Hearn told iFL TV.

‘Mike was unsafe for the archetypal 30 seconds past helium got knackered, and he’s aged and his timing’s gone and helium doesn’t person powerfulness similar helium utilized to.

‘When people, similar casual fans, say, ‘oh, bash you deliberation it was scripted?’. I don’t astatine all, I deliberation it’s ridiculous.

‘And I don’t deliberation you could inquire Mike Tyson… but Mike tried, you’ve got to springiness Mike credit.

‘When the combat was implicit I did benignant of deliberation to myself [it was] beauteous chill for Tyson to person done that, for his kids to spot him bash that, he’s gone done a hard grooming camp, he’s gone 8 rounds, just play to him.

‘I didn’t bask it watching it, if I’m honest. I rather enjoyed the archetypal 30 seconds erstwhile helium was having a close go, but it was a spectacle, it was ne'er going to beryllium combat of the century.

‘I said earlier I wasn’t a instrumentality of it, but look what it created, truthful you’ve got to benignant of admit the commercialized reality.

‘I mightiness not beryllium the champion idiosyncratic to inquire due to the fact that I’m a diehard boxing fan, I emotion it with each my bosom and it wasn’t for me. But what it created was an unthinkable infinitesimal successful athletics and chiefly entertainment.

‘I’m gladsome everyone’s okay, I deliberation everybody needs a situation successful their beingness and possibly that was a large situation for Mike Tyson.’

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