Jake Paul reveals where he ranks Tyson Fury compared to opponent Mike Tyson

'The Problem Child' was precocious quizzed the taxable up of his showdown with erstwhile heavyweight champion of the satellite Mike Tyson adjacent month

Jake Paul has ranked upcoming hostile Mike Tyson arsenic the No.1 heavyweight of each clip implicit the likes of Tyson Fury and Muhammad Ali.

The YouTuber-turned-boxer is presently successful the last stages of grooming for his showdown with the boxing icon. The clash betwixt the 2 stars is scheduled to instrumentality spot on November 15 astatine the AT&T Arena successful Arlington, Texas successful beforehand of up to 90,000 fans. It volition beryllium recognised arsenic a nonrecreational outing and volition instrumentality spot successful the heavyweight division.

Since making his debut backmost successful 2020, 'The Problem Child' has established himself arsenic a existent household sanction successful the sport. With a nonrecreational grounds of 10-1, the 27-year-old has defeated the likes of Anderson Silva, Nate Diaz and Tyron Woodley already successful his abbreviated career. His lone decision successful boxing came on points against Tommy Fury past year.

As for his opponent, 'Iron Mike' is widely-regarded arsenic 1 of the champion heavyweights successful the past of the sport. During the highest of his powers, the erstwhile world champion defeated the likes of Marvis Frazier, Trevor Berbick, Larry Holmes, Michael Spinks and Frank Bruno earlier hanging up the gloves successful 2005. He did, however, marque a sensational instrumentality to the ringing 4 years ago, facing Roy Jones Jr successful an accumulation bout.

With combat nighttime conscionable weeks away, Paul was precocious interviewed by Sports Illustrated, who provided the outlet with however preparations for the contention were going and besides had his accidental connected UFC prima Conor McGregor. At the extremity of the chat, the 27-year-old was asked to unsighted fertile 5 heavyweight greats - yet placing Tyson astatine the apical of the pile.

His authoritative bid is arsenic follows: Mike Tyson, Muhammad Ali, Tyson Fury, Evander Holyfield and George Foreman. While galore would frost and instrumentality a spot of clip deciding each pick, 'The Problem Child' was precise steadfast and speedy with each response.

Many would reason that 'The Gypsy King' is the 2nd champion heavyweight of this procreation down Oleksandr Usyk. What the Brit has successful the athletics of boxing has inspired many, but fans would hold that helium deserves to beryllium down Tyson and Ali erstwhile it comes to the determining the top heavyweight of each time.

There whitethorn beryllium a fewer who would swap Foreman and Holyfield astir aft the erstwhile became the oldest champion successful the past of the heavyweight part aft helium knocked retired Michael Moorer successful 1994 astatine the property of 45.

With the showdown with Tyson conscionable nether a period away, Paul has watched hours of portion to survey the veteran's erstwhile fights and believes helium volition effort “to trap maine connected the ropes and past get blows disconnected to angles connected each side.” When asked what his tactics volition be, Paul replied: “To conscionable container connected the extracurricular and past usage my footwork to beryllium much agile and get him chasing maine and past onslaught him erstwhile he’s retired of position. That should frustrate him.”