Jake Paul's immediate reaction to Mike Tyson pulling out of boxing fight

Jake Paul and Mike Tyson had agreed to combat successful July but the heavyweight fable was forced to postpone the bound by 4 months aft suffering a aesculapian emergency

Jake Paul has revealed helium was near devastated erstwhile Mike Tyson postponed their boxing fight.

YouTuber Paul was owed to look Tyson successful July but the heavyweight fable was forced to hold the eight-round clash by 4 months erstwhile helium suffered an ulcer flare-up connected a formation from Miami to Los Angeles. Tyson was taken to infirmary wherever doctors discovered a two-and-a-half inch ulcer which was bleeding.

Tyson instantly postponed the combat until November 15 erstwhile helium was ordered to instrumentality a interruption from training. He and Paul soon acceptable a caller date, however, with the rivals present conscionable days distant from gathering successful the ringing successful beforehand of up to 80,000 fans successful Texas. And Paul, who has won 10 of his 11 nonrecreational boxing fights, admitted helium was disconsolate aft proceeding Tyson's news.

"When I received the quality that helium was retired and not capable to fight, I was conscionable numb, I was conscionable like, 'f***...'," helium said connected a Netflix documentary. "I'm the benignant of idiosyncratic who likes a docket and likes to cognize what I'm doing. This conscionable threw a wrench successful each of that, determination was thing I could do, it was retired of my control.

"Nobody tin archer Mike Tyson what to bash and if helium wants to combat me, of people I'm going to accidental yes. This is the accidental of a beingness to combat 1 of the 2 astir celebrated boxers to ever live; Muhammad Ali and Mike Tyson. I look astatine Mike Tyson arsenic a slayer truthful I ne'er truly expected thing similar this."

Paul went connected to combat bare-knuckle boxer and erstwhile UFC prima Mike Perry connected the archetypal day for his clash with Tyson, stopping his hostile successful the sixth round. And helium added: "At the extremity of the time the Mike Tyson combat is large but I person a extremity to go world champion and I'm not slowing that down for anyone."

Tyson has not fought since helium drew with chap fable Roy Jones Jr 4 years agone successful an accumulation combat which helium mostly dominated. Paul fought connected the undercard that night, knocking retired NBA prima Nate Robinson with a devastating second-round stoppage.

Tyson and Paul volition conscionable successful a sanctioned bout but volition combat implicit 2 eight-minute rounds and deterioration padded 14oz gloves. The effect of the combat volition spell connected their respective records and volition beryllium Tyson's archetypal nonrecreational bout since helium discontinue connected his stool aft 5 rounds against Kevin McBride astir 20 years ago.