Mike Tyson compared to John Fury ahead of 'ridiculous' Jake Paul boxing fight

Many person criticised the combat taking place, with Tyson acceptable to instrumentality to the ringing adjacent period astatine the property of 58 erstwhile helium takes connected the YouTuber-turned-boxer

Tommy Fury has compared Mike Tyson to his begetter John up of the boxing legend's showdown with YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul adjacent month.

The arguable showdown betwixt the 2 stars is scheduled to instrumentality spot connected November 15 astatine the AT&T Arena successful Arlington, Texas. Tyson, who volition beryllium 58 erstwhile helium steps ft successful the ringing against Paul, hasn't fought since 2020 - an accumulation bout with Roy Jones Jr. The American's past nonrecreational outing came backmost successful 2005 erstwhile helium suffered a decision to Kevin McBride. As for Paul, 'The Problem Child' past stepped ft successful the squared-ring backmost successful July, defeating erstwhile UFC combatant Mike Perry.

Both men were scheduled to look disconnected earlier this year. However, the boxing fable was forced to propulsion retired aft suffering from an inflamed ulcer. Tyson was advised to halt grooming connected his doctor's order, but has precocious returned to the gym up of adjacent month's contest. That said, the 58-year-old precocious revealed helium was struggling to locomotion aft completing six rounds of sparring - further adding concerns for his wellness ahead.

Since the confirmation of the bout, galore person slammed the fight, chiefly owed to the monolithic property spread betwixt the 2 boxers. One antheral who has criticised the combat is Fury. The 25-year-old famously handed Paul the archetypal decision of his boxing vocation backmost successful 2023, winning via a choky split-decision.

Like galore successful the boxing community, Fury has doubled down connected disapproval regarding the fight. "I deliberation it's perfectly terrible," Fury told Boxing News. "The antheral (Tyson) is 60 years of age, against a 26-year-old. It doesn't interval my boat. Mike Tyson is the aforesaid property arsenic my dad. I deliberation it's perfectly ridiculous. So, I'm not funny successful that combat astatine all. He (Paul) couldn't bushed maine truthful he's going to person to combat a 60-year-old now, truthful he's decidedly gone successful the close direction, let's accidental that."

'The Problem Child' has developed a spot of wont of being capable to sound fighters retired successful brutal fashion, which has been a cardinal origin arsenic to wherefore galore person criticised the upcoming combat with Tyson. However, speaking to Fight Hub TV aft the clash with Paul, Fury wasn't impressed and thought that he'd been deed overmuch harder.

“It wasn’t… I’ve been astir this occupation my full life, I’ve sparred a batch of people, been successful the ringing sparring immoderate existent punchers," helium said. "His powerfulness wasn’t thing that was worrying maine astatine all. That’s wherefore I had my hands down, I wasn’t truly that bothered. That’s it really. He’s a bully beardown lad but he’s not the hardest hitter that I’ve ever fought.”

Many fans judge that Tyson is not taking the combat earnestly aft a staggering admission. During a caller chat with Jimmy Kimmel, 'Iron Mike' claimed helium was grooming six hours a day. "I americium grooming highly hard, I bash six hours a day. I commencement astatine 11am and mightiness permission the gym astatine 5pm," helium said. Kimmel looked stunned and replied: "Oh no. 11am? So that's six hours straight, oregon is determination a luncheon break?" The erstwhile heavyweight champion admitted determination was a tiny interruption arsenic a shocked Kimmel gasped: "Oh no."