Everyone's saying the SAME thing after boxing legend Mike Tyson, 58, limped out to Gen Z YouTuber Jake Paul, 27, in Netflix freak show fight that enraged the internet

It was 1 of the astir highly anticipated boxing matches of the year, yet the bout betwixt Mike Tyson and Jake Paul proved to beryllium immensely disappointing to combat sports fans astir the world.

Tyson looked to beryllium each spot a 58-year-old as helium mislaid to Paul successful a unanimous decision before implicit 70,000 radical astatine AT&T Stadium successful Arlington, Texas connected Friday night.

Tyson appeared sluggish and stiff, stumbling astir the ringing portion not appearing capable to genuinely marque an interaction connected this bout extracurricular of the archetypal 30 seconds - particularly arsenic his close genu was successful a brace. Many wondered wherefore it was allowed for a antheral of Tyson's property and information to beryllium allowed to instrumentality portion successful specified an event. 

Among the galore celebrities and fans worldwide who lambasted the bout, erstwhile boxer and MMA superstar Conor McGregor offered a bleak appraisal of the juncture successful a present deleted tweet.

'A 16minute spar successful sparring gloves. F**k off,' the Irishman said.

WBA airy middleweight champion Terence Crawford tweeted, 'I emotion Mike Tyson, but they giving him excessively overmuch credit. He looked similar trash, to bid that agelong and lone propulsion 97 punches the full combat is crazy. I’m conscionable gladsome helium didn’t get wounded retired there.'

English boxer Tony Bellew gave Paul immoderate recognition portion recognizing Tyson's flaws: 'I don’t similar this anserine idiot kid but I volition accidental this.. He stopped beating connected Mike determination and showed him immoderate respect and dignity by letting him survive! 

Bellew continued, 'He didn’t spell for the KO determination helium stepped disconnected him and fto him be.. Mike we each adore you king your a ace leader to each of america from the due combat business!'

NBA icon Earvin 'Magic' Johnson posted, 'Just bittersweet smh. I chopped it disconnected due to the fact that I couldn’t ticker anymore. It’s bittersweet to spot Mike Tyson similar this due to the fact that I went to each Tyson fight. This combat contiguous was not large for boxing.'

American writer Shea Serrano joked astir however the combat looked compared to the Katie Taylor-Amanda Serrano combat instantly preceding it, saying, 'going from the taylor-serrano combat to the paul-tyson combat is similar if you watched the ace vessel and past instantly aft the ace vessel you watched 2 radical play insubstantial shot connected a array successful denny’s astatine 3am.'

Former United States women's shot subordinate Sydney Leroux simply tweeted, 'Pathetic connected each accounts.'

Barstool Sports laminitis Dave Portnoy tweeted, 'Credit to Jake Paul + Mike Tyson for pulling disconnected 1 of the large cons of century. I shoulda enactment 10 cardinal connected Jake. Not origin he's bully but origin helium fought a elder citizen. I would accidental everybody progressive should beryllium ashamed but I'd instrumentality the wealth it excessively if I could.'

New York sports speech vigor fable Mike Francesa tweeted, 'Anybody who had thing to bash with that Tyson/Paul debacle owes the nationalist an apology. What garbage.'

Before the combat began, podcaster and UFC ringside property Joe Rogan tweeted, 'I’m getting acceptable to ticker this Tyson vs Jake Paul combat similar I’m watching idiosyncratic formed a spell that I anticipation really works. And I don’t truly judge successful magic. But I privation to believe.'

After the combat ended, Rogan simply replied to himself with the words: 'Magic isn't real.' 

After the bout, WBA lightweight loop holder Gervonta 'Tank' Davis posted a tribute to Tyson connected his Instagram story, saying, 'You volition everlastingly beryllium a legend..rather [sic] you similar ir oregon not and it volition ne'er beryllium different one! And I recognize you truthful well..all this s**t don't mean nothing.'

He besides went connected to trash Paul saying, 'To the bozo that shared the ringing w Mike.. you a full bozo for this and you didn't get the occupation done [poop emoji] head..'

YouTuber, rapper, and boxer KSI besides posted to his Instagram story, saying, 'What a bittersweet watch. Whole happening was sad. Mike Tyson is doubly the property of Jake Paul ffs. It was ne'er EVER gonna beryllium close. I can't judge that this aged maltreatment was adjacent sanctioned. Just a disgusting.' 

For each the pomp and excitement that the promotion to this lucifer promised, the payoff failed successful a genuinely spectacular way.

Tyson finished the combat having thrown lone 97 punches compared to Paul's 278, according to CompuBox. What's worse is that 'Iron Mike' lone landed 18 of those portion absorbing 78 blows from the antheral 31 years his junior. 

In his hey day, Tyson's bread-and-butter was assemblage shots. In this bout, helium lone landed 4 blows to the assemblage portion eating 20 from Paul.

Even still, the 58-year-old appeared to bespeak successful the ringing that he'd privation to combat Jake's brother, erstwhile boxer and existent WWE superstar Logan Paul. The older Paul member replied, 'I'd termination you Mike.'

While it served arsenic an embarrassment to the athletics of boxing, it proved to beryllium a monolithic wage time for Netflix and Jake Paul's Most Valuable Promotions - who reported a gross of $17.8 cardinal (£14.1million).

But it's not similar Netflix's presumption was creaseless sailing. Tens of thousands of customers reported issues with sluggish streams and buffering passim the combat and adjacent successful the undercard bouts.

Even the broadcast squad itself had issues - with boxer Evander Holyfield incapable to perceive questions from presenter Kate Scott. Additionally, erstwhile interviewing Dallas Cowboys proprietor Jerry Jones, his microphone chopped retired portion helium was speaking.