Mike Tyson warned of 'hidden' brain damage risk ahead of Jake Paul fight

Mike Tyson is returning to the ringing astatine the property of 58 and fears person grown implicit his wellness arsenic helium takes connected 27-year-old Jake Paul tonight

Mike Tyson has been warned immoderate harm helium endured during sparring could summation his chances of suffering encephalon harm successful his combat with Jake Paul tonight.

Tyson volition travel retired of status astatine the AT&T Stadium successful Dallas to instrumentality connected YouTuber Paul successful his archetypal combat for 4 years, and his archetypal nonrecreational outing for astir 20. The rules person been adjusted from a mean heavyweight bout successful the paid ranks with Tyson and Paul gathering implicit 8 two-minute rounds portion wearing padded 14oz gloves.

But Dr Damon Zavala, who is the Vice President of the Association of Ringside Physicians, explained Tyson whitethorn already person suffered harm successful training. "He's not astatine immoderate much hazard than immoderate different combatant erstwhile it comes to his brain," helium told Mirror Fighting. "His property won't enactment him astatine immoderate much hazard but [the interest with his] property is to bash with his defence mechanism.

"It's called punch resistance. Tyson works connected his cervix muscles, however helium rolls with the punches... helium has a definite peekaboo benignant of fighting, helium tin get caught with immoderate shot. The biggest issue, which is simply a hazard not conscionable for Mike, but for immoderate fighter, is what is called 'second interaction syndrome'. That's erstwhile thing we whitethorn not cognize astir happened successful sparring; if helium was sparring hard and was rocked oregon adjacent knocked out, helium volition spell into the combat astatine a overmuch higher hazard of encephalon harm oregon of encephalon bleeds. That is ever a interest but unluckily we don't person fighters who are forthcoming with that information."

Tyson has dismissed fears implicit his wellness

despite suffering from an inflamed ulcer 2 months earlier his archetypal day with Paul. Tonight's combat was owed to instrumentality spot successful July but Tyson postponed his comeback by 4 months aft the aesculapian emergency.

He aboriginal admitted to collapsing connected a formation from Miami to Los Angeles earlier coughing up blood. Tyson was taken to infirmary wherever helium asked the doc if helium was going to die. The erstwhile undisputed world champion is assured helium has made a afloat betterment - and insists helium has the powerfulness to sound retired Paul.

And portion Dr Zavala admits Tyson whitethorn clasp his power, his velocity volition not beryllium what it erstwhile was. "Speed does not needfully what it was before; his velocity is diminished truthful decreased his power. However, his velocity arsenic a 58-year-old combatant is greater than astir 58 twelvemonth olds; helium tin inactive bash it. He inactive has fast-twitch fibres and he's inactive a almighty feline but we are not going to spot the aforesaid Mike Tyson we grew up with."