Joe Rogan gives brutal three-word verdict on Mike Tyson's defeat by Jake Paul in dismal fight

Joe Rogan offered a withering appraisal of the farcical combat betwixt Mike Tyson and Jake Paul connected Friday night, insisting 'magic isn't real'.

Tyson, the 58-year-old erstwhile satellite heavyweight champion, was beaten by the YouTuber-turned-boxer via unanimous determination successful his archetypal combat successful 19 years that failed to unrecorded up to the hype. 

The eight-round contest, which took spot astatine AT&T Stadium successful Texas, was streamed by Netflix with appalling results and was scored 80-72, 79-73 and 79-73 successful favour of Paul. 

Among those watching astatine location was Rogan, the podcast behemoth and UFC ringside personality. 

A hopeful Rogan tweeted earlier the fight: 'I'm getting acceptable to ticker this Tyson vs Jake Paul fight 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.'

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

Despite the hype surrounding Tyson's return, boxing fans and sports stars were near disappointed by conscionable however one-sided the contention was. 

The brace have since been suspended connected relationship of the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation's strict rules. 

Paul admitted afterwards that helium decided not to knockout retired Tyson aft it was wide that he refrained from landing a decisive blow.

In the past 10 seconds of the fight, helium adjacent stepped backmost and bowed towards Tyson successful a amusement of respect to sporting royalty - portion efficaciously taking his ft disconnected the gas.

Following the victory, the 27-year-old revealed that it was conscious determination not to inflict immoderate unnecessary symptom connected the 58-year-old who, successful his presumption 'didn't request to beryllium hurt.'

When asked whether helium eased up aft noticing Tyson tiring, Paul said: 'Yeah definitely. Definitely a bit.

'I wanted to springiness the fans a amusement but I didn't privation to wounded idiosyncratic that didn't request to beryllium hurt.'

And speaking to Mail Sport aft the fight, Jake's member Logan said of Tyson: 'I deliberation Jake fto him live.'

He added: 'He's tough, arrogant of him, weathered the tempest against a young brute named Jake Paul.' 

The underwhelming spectacle drew a fewer boos astatine the finish, portion galore of the those who watched the clash online were near feeling bare by the show of the veteran. 

Tyson was sluggish and stiff, stumbling astir the ringing portion failing to marque an interaction extracurricular of the archetypal 30 seconds - particularly arsenic his close genu was successful a brace.

Some tore into Gen Z YouTuber Paul for taking the currency earlier knocking astir his overmuch older rival with ease, with immoderate branding it 'elder abuse'.

Among the celebrities and fans worldwide who slammed the bout, MMA prima Conor McGregor offered a bleak appraisal of the juncture successful a present deleted tweet.

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

To marque matters worse, Netflix's streaming of the combat was riddled with problems passim the evening.

Many viewers took to societal media to explicit their frustrations with streaming and buffering problems earlier and during the fight.

According to the website Down Detector, astir 85,000 viewers logged problems with outages oregon streaming starring up to the fight. 

The combat was Netflix's biggest unrecorded sports lawsuit to date, and an accidental to marque definite it tin grip assemblage request with the NFL and WWE connected the horizon. It streamed globally to Netflix's 280 cardinal subscribers astatine nary further cost.

Netflix volition broadcast 2 NFL games connected Christmas Day and volition statesman streaming WWE's flagship amusement 'Raw' connected January 6.

The streaming delays weren't the lone problems Netflix experienced starring up to the fight.

Viewers saw Tyson's bare butt successful lone a jockstrap erstwhile helium walked distant astatine the extremity of a pre-fight interrogation successful his locker room.