‘My daughter told me to come out of retirement to fight Jake Paul, I’d do better than Mike Tyson’

Former satellite champion Johnny Nelson was urged to telephone retired Jake Paul this week by his daughter, convinced her dada could bash a amended occupation than Mike Tyson managed against the YouTuber-turned-boxer.

Paul eased to a comfy points triumph implicit Tyson successful Dallas, Texas, connected Friday nighttime with the erstwhile heavyweight champion looking each 1 of his 58 years arsenic helium laboured successful the ringing against a overmuch younger man.

Paul, 27, has been called retired by 2 boxers astatine the precise apical of their crippled this week since the victory.

Undisputed light-heavyweight champion Artur Beterbiev challenged the American connected societal media soon aft the fight, with Paul besides revealing a DM from heavyweight satellite champion Daniel Dubois inviting him into the ring.

Tony Bellew made the travel retired to Dallas to gatecrash a property league last Wednesday having offered to enactment Paul ‘to sleep’. Another retired British prima Carl Froch has been embroiled successful a warfare of words with ‘The Problem Child’ with Nelson believing some erstwhile satellite champions are ‘jumping connected the gravy train’.

Nelson has been happily retired from boxing since 2005, inactive holding the grounds for the longest reign arsenic cruiserweight champion.

While the Sheffield fighter, present a main boxing pundit for Sky Sports, would inactive backmost himself going up against Paul, helium joked helium is ‘probably not a large capable name’ for the self-proclaimed ‘future of boxing’.

Nelson told Metro: ‘My girl rang maine up aft the Tyson combat and said, “Dad person you seen that? Tyson is lone a fewer months older than you. You could bash amended than that! Why don’t you commencement shouting Jake Paul’s sanction out?’”

‘I started laughing. I’m astir apt not a large capable sanction for Jake Paul. And it would ne'er hap successful a cardinal years anyway. its embarrassing doing that benignant of stuff. If asked if I thought I would bushed Jake Paul, of people I would bushed Jake Paul.

‘But if I telephone him retired though. it looks hopeless and begging to get connected that gravy train. And I’m not. That’s however it is.

‘The occupation and quality is, if you spell successful determination thinking, “I’m going to spell successful determination and get knocked retired for £20million”, past shame connected you. If I was going successful determination knowing I was going to get knocked retired I wouldn’t bash it. Money is not my God. I’d spell successful determination if I knew I could bash it. And truthful would Carl [Froch], Tony [Bellew] and Dubois. Jake Paul is nary idiot either.

‘Everyone is jumping connected the gravy train. You had Tony Bellew determination astatine the weekend. You person had Carl Froch determination calling him retired since. You are going to person a galore radical thinking, “Jesus Christ, this is huffy wealth for boxing a kid who is conscionable home level”.

‘Dubois has jumped connected the aforesaid gravy bid hoping Paul is delusional capable to deliberation he’ll person a spell astatine you. Everyone is trying to leap connected the gravy bid and I get it.’

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