Tyson reveals he 'almost died' ahead of fight with Paul

Former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson says the wellness scare successful June, which forced the postponement of his boxing lucifer with Jake Paul, astir outgo him his life.

"I astir died successful June," Tyson wrote connected X, adding that helium "had 8 humor transfusions. Lost fractional my humor and 25lbs successful hospital".

The 58-year-old, who lost to the YouTuber-turned-boxer successful a unanimous points determination successful Texas, tweeted that the concern was acold worse than radical had realised.

Following Tyson's recovery, aft reportedly suffering an ulcer flareup, helium reflected connected the effect of the fight.

"This is 1 of those situations erstwhile you mislaid but inactive won... nary regrets to get successful the ringing 1 past time," helium said.

That contrasts with Tyson's comments aft the lucifer successful which helium refused to corroborate whether it would beryllium his past fight.

"It depends connected the situation," Tyson said earlier suggesting a combat with Paul's older brother, Logan Paul, who was lasting adjacent him successful the ring.

Critics argued that the revised lucifer - which progressive less and shortened rounds, arsenic good arsenic heavier gloves - fell abbreviated of entertaining.

Some claimed it appeared much similar a glorified sparring session.

It was Tyson's archetypal sanctioned pro bout since 2005, erstwhile helium mislaid to Kevin McBride and past went into status - lone concisely reappearing for an accumulation match successful 2020 against Roy Jones Jr.

Paul has plentifulness to prove

Paul, 27, inactive has plentifulness to prove. The societal media influencer wants to beryllium a title combatant and vie for a title loop wrong 2 years. "I deliberation it could hap successful the adjacent 24 months," Paul said.

"I truly, genuinely judge successful my skills and my quality and my power. And the cruiserweight part is seemingly unfastened for the taking connected that timeline," helium added.

The lone nonrecreational lucifer he has mislaid truthful far has been to Tommy Fury, the less-accomplished member of erstwhile heavyweight champion Tyson Fury.

But determination are questions astir erstwhile Paul volition combat a contender successful his prime, arsenic opposed to erstwhile champions oregon mixed martial artists.

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Could Paul truly instrumentality connected Alvarez?

Intriguingly, successful the days earlier his combat with Tyson, Paul mentioned ace middleweight champion Canelo Alvarez, considered 1 of the champion boxers successful the world.

According to reports, the Texas bout earned Paul $40m (£31.7m) versus $20m (£15.8m) for Tyson.

Netflix said 60 cardinal households worldwide viewed the contention connected its streaming platform, and astir 50 cardinal tuned successful to ticker the undercard which saw Ireland's Katie Taylor bushed Puerto Rico's Amanda Serrano.

Even truthful determination were immoderate method glitches. More than 90,000 users reported problems connected Netflix astatine its peak, according to the website Downdetector, which tracks outages.