Mike Tyson hid health problems from Jake Paul after fearing he would die before fight

The 2 boxing stars were owed to combat successful July, however, Tyson pulled retired aft suffering an ulcer flare-up, with the brace yet settling the people connected Friday night

Jake Paul and his squad were unaware of Mike Tyson 's wellness issues up of their boxing showdown aft the ringing fable admitted helium feared helium would die.

The 58-year-old took portion successful his archetypal nonrecreational bout since 2005 past Friday against the YouTuber-turned-boxer. 'The Problem Child' secured a unanimous determination triumph successful Texas, but failed to onshore immoderate fight-ending punches passim the contest. CompuBox stats revealed aft the clash that Tyson managed to marque transportation with lone 18 punches successful full crossed the 8 rounds, with 4 of his 13 powerfulness punches assemblage landing and nary of his 5 attempted jabs doing so.

Tyson - a erstwhile heavyweight world champion - admitted helium "almost died" up of his arguable defeat to Paul. Taking to Twitter, the legendary combatant wrote: "This is 1 of those situations erstwhile you mislaid but inactive won. I’m grateful for past night. No regrets to get successful ringing 1 past time.

"I astir died successful June. Had 8 humor transfusions. Lost fractional my humor and 25lbs successful infirmary and had to combat to get steadfast to combat truthful I won. To person my children spot maine basal toed to toed and decorativeness 8 rounds with a talented combatant fractional my property successful beforehand of a packed Dallas Cowboy stadium is an acquisition that nary antheral has the close to inquire for. Thank you."

Despite Tyson's claims connected societal media, Paul's concern spouse Nakisa Bidarian revealed that helium was unaware of Tyson's wellness struggles going into the fight. Speaking connected The Ariel Helwani show, helium said: "That sentiment that was shared by him connected that post, was ne'er shared with us. We person the doctor's reports, we person the conversations with the doctor's, that was ne'er thing we thought about... him adjacent to losing his beingness oregon immoderate it was helium said successful the post.

"I admit determination was a batch of emotion starring up to that lawsuit and I admit him the adjacent time him reflecting connected what helium went through, but I tin unequivocally accidental each azygous study we had from the his team, each speech we had his doctor's were thing different than 'he's 100 per cent going to beryllium capable to compete, starting astatine the extremity of August, aboriginal September'."

Tyson was primitively acceptable to instrumentality connected Paul successful July but the combat was postponed owed to the erstwhile going done a wellness scare connected a flight. Opening up connected the incidental up of the clash, Tyson said: “I was successful the bath throwing up blood. I asked the doctor, ‘Am I going to die?’ He said, ‘We person options.’ Options? I couldn’t judge it. I had, like, 8 humor transfusions. The doc said I mislaid fractional my blood. I astir died. I mislaid 25 pounds successful 11 days. Couldn’t eat. Only liquids. Every clip I went to the bathroom, it smelled similar tar. Didn’t adjacent odor similar s*** anymore. It was disgusting.

“It threw maine disconnected [when I continued training]. All my coordination, stamina, everything was hectic getting back. I was peaked already. I could person fought him that day. Now I got to commencement from scratch. I conscionable don’t springiness up. I’m an a****** sometimes. I’m a d***. If I haven’t outlived my enemies, I’ve turned them into my friends.”