Former WBC heavyweight satellite champion Oliver McCall has called retired YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul for a combat successful the ring.
It comes conscionable days aft Paul, 27, defeated erstwhile heavyweight world champion Mike Tyson via unanimous determination astatine the AT&T Stadium successful Texas. On Saturday, Netflix dropped the figures for the showdown betwixt the pair, with a whopping 60 cardinal households tuning in. The lawsuit deed a highest of 65 cardinal unrecorded streams. Despite the jaw-dropping numbers, the main lawsuit itself failed to unrecorded up to the hype.
'The Problem Child' failed to onshore immoderate fight-ending strikes passim the 8 rounds. After the heavyweight clash, Paul acknowledged his nonaccomplishment to present connected his promise. He said: "I'm atrocious I didn't sound him out." Those alongside him connected his YouTube transmission claimed helium showed respect to Tyson by not going for the knockout blow.
The 27-year-old added: "After I'd seen him bushed I didn't privation to enactment excessively overmuch wounded connected him, but I wanted the fans to get a bully experience. But determination was a constituent wherever my aggression and unit went distant erstwhile I wasn't getting hit. I emotion Mike."
Since the victory, Paul has had respective fighters telephone him out, including heavyweight champion Daniel Dubois. However, nary much astonishing than McCall - who returned to the ringing connected Tuesday nighttime aft a five-year hiatus. The boxing seasoned made past arsenic the oldest combatant to vie and triumph aft knocking retired Stacy Frazier successful the 2nd round.
After the fight, erstwhile asked astir beating Tyson's grounds of warring astatine the property of 58, the 59-year-old said: “Well, successful actuality, it's a bigger grounds due to the fact that I'm the archetypal feline who ever knocked down the youngest heavyweight champion of the world, which is Mike Tyson. And present I'm the oldest feline to combat and win."
Following his triumph implicit Frazier, McCall wasted nary clip successful calling retired Paul. “Well, adjacent fight, I'm gonna beryllium astir 10 pounds lighter truthful you're gonna person a batch much technique. And I tin punch. I could decidedly punch. My defence is beauteous decent. What astir if I suffer astir 10 much pounds, I'm acceptable for anybody. I’ll sound Jake Paul out. Bring connected Jake Paul and I wanna get revenge for Nate Robinson and past Mike Tyson. That would beryllium awesome.”
With a nonrecreational grounds of 60-14-2, during the highest of his powers, McCall shocked the satellite erstwhile helium became the WBC heavyweight champion successful 1994 aft knocking retired Lennox Lewis successful London earlier successfully defending the rubric against Larry Holmes. However, the American past mislaid the loop aft suffering a unanimous determination decision to Frank Bruno successful 1995.