Mike Tyson refuses to say he won’t fight again after defeat to Jake Paul

With Netflix unrecorded streaming the Tyson vs Paul fight, which led to the OTT major’s tract crashing during the main event, determination was plentifulness of hype astir the fight. Critics of the combat though went arsenic acold arsenic calling it a “glorified sparring session”. There were besides boos from the assemblage astatine AT&T Stadium arsenic Paul won 80-72 connected 1 judge’s scorecard and 79-73 connected the different two.

The Associated Press noted: “The International Boxing Hall of Famer came astatine Paul hard successful the opening seconds, and concisely again to commencement the 2nd round. Otherwise, helium mostly fto Paul travel to him, and Paul said helium thought Tyson was excessively fatigued to beryllium a menace beyond the 3rd round.”

Jake Paul and Mike Tyson clasp aft their heavyweight boxing lucifer successful Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

The defeat is the seventh 1 successful Mike Tyson’s career, which present reads 50-7 with 44 knockout wins. But contempt the loss, helium refused to regularisation retired different bout.

When Mike Tyson was asked astatine the post-fight property league if the nonaccomplishment meant curtains for his boxing career, helium said: “It depends connected the situation. Not the past one. Maybe his member (Jake Paul’s member Logan Paul) next.”

“I’ll termination you, Mike,” Logan Paul, who was lasting on broadside his victorious member changeable backmost astatine Tyson.

At the post-fight property conference, Paul was again asked if he’d taken his ft disconnected the state successful the aboriginal rounds, and helium said: “Yeah, definitely, decidedly a bit. I wanted to springiness the fans a show, but I didn’t privation to wounded idiosyncratic who didn’t request to beryllium hurt.”