Revealed: Reason Mike Tyson slapped Jake Paul at weigh-in - as legendary boxer's friend slams YouTuber as a 'lurching animal'

A person of Mike Tyson has revealed the crushed the legendary heavyweight boxer slapped Jake Paul astatine the weigh-in up of their combat connected Friday night.

Paul and Tyson deed the scales deed the scales connected Thursday successful their last gathering earlier the brace look disconnected successful the ringing astatine the AT&T Stadium successful Texas.

They met successful the customary face-off aft the measurement in, with Tyson shocking onlookers by slapping the YouTuber.

Tyson's erstwhile grooming spouse turned person Tom Patti has present revealed the crushed wherefore the 58-year-old lashed retired astatine Paul.

He claimed Tyson was retaliating aft YouTuber-turned-boxer Paul had stepped connected his ft aft lunging towards him.

'Jake stepped connected Mike's foot, that prompted the reaction,' Tom Patti, 1 of Tyson's longtime friends, told USA Today.

'I was determination and Mike conscionable told me.

'My idiosyncratic sentiment (is) Jake shows capable disrespect that helium starts crawling up to Mike and past pouncing successful beforehand of him… similar immoderate benignant of lurching animal. 

'Mike enactment him successful his place.'

Footage appears to backmost up Patti's comments with Paul, who was wearing trainers, seen landing connected the apical of Tyson's close ft up of the confrontation.

Paul seemed comparatively unfazed by the onslaught arsenic Tyson was restrained and gave small remark earlier leaving the stage. That gave Paul an accidental connected the microphone to nonstop his last message.

Speaking to Ariel Helwani connected stage, Paul said: 'Mike Tyson, that was a cute slap buddy but time you're getting knocked the f*** out.

'I'm f***ing him up, I'm f***ing him up! He hits similar a b***h. It's idiosyncratic now, it's idiosyncratic now!'

In a chilling end, helium uttered a three-word connection of: 'He indispensable die!'

Just moments earlier, Tyson had outweighed Paul by conscionable implicit a pound. Having antecedently operated arsenic a cruiserweight, Paul has bulked up to instrumentality connected Tyson and weighed successful astatine 227.2lbs.

Tyson past stepped up wearing Versace pants and looked successful unthinkable condition, particularly considering helium turned 58 successful July, arsenic helium tipped the scales astatine 228.4lbs.

A time earlier, Paul, Tyson and their undercard formed starred successful a property league astatine Toyota Music Factory successful Irving, Texas.

Tyson is 19 years removed from his past sanctioned nonrecreational combat contempt competing successful an accumulation with Roy Jones Jr. successful 2020.