Mike Tyson slaps Jake Paul at final faceoff before epic showdown

In lawsuit you had immoderate doubts astir whether Jake Paul-Mike Tyson was real, each of those tin beryllium thrown retired the window.

Tyson and Paul had to beryllium separated connected Thursday nighttime aft the erstwhile heavyweight champ smacked the 27-year-old close crossed the face.

Tyson had conscionable completed his weigh-in, wherever helium came successful astatine 228.4 pounds - Paul is astatine 227.2. Tyson past approached Paul for their last staredown earlier the fight, and Paul crawled up to his face.

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Mike Tyson, left, and Jake Paul look disconnected during weigh-ins, held astatine Toyota Music Factory successful Irving, Texas, USA, up of their heavyweight bout, connected November 15th astatine AT&T Stadium successful Arlington, Texas.  (Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile via Getty Images)

Paul got a small excessively close, and Tyson threw an unfastened close hand. Paul took it similar a champ arsenic galore radical held Tyson back.

After the incident, Tyson said "all the speech is over" to Ariel Helwani and walked off. Paul responded, "he indispensable die."

It was by acold the astir contentious portion of the full ordeal, and precise overmuch dissimilar Tyson, who has been highly mellow starring up to this event.

Mike Tyson and Jake Paul are separated arsenic they look disconnected during their ceremonial weigh-in astatine The Pavilion astatine Toyota Music Factory connected November 14, 2024 successful Irving, Texas. The 2 are scheduled to conscionable successful a heavyweight bout connected November 15 astatine AT&T Stadium successful Arlington, Texas.  (Christian Petersen/Getty Images)

Paul has been the 1 to propulsion the buttons, adjacent calling Tyson "boring" astatine Wednesday night's property conference. Tyson, though, continued to accidental small successful conscionable astir each conference.

But connected Thursday, helium wholly flipped the script.

Mike Tyson and Jake Paul look disconnected during their ceremonial weigh-in astatine The Pavilion astatine Toyota Music Factory connected November 14, 2024 successful Irving, Texas. The 2 are scheduled to conscionable successful a heavyweight bout connected November 15 astatine AT&T Stadium successful Arlington, Texas.  (Christian Petersen/Getty Images)

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The long-awaited combat is yet here, though, and volition beryllium astatine AT&T Stadium successful Arlington connected Friday night, wherever it volition beryllium streamed connected Netflix.

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