The fight of the year heats up: Mike Tyson loses his temper and slaps Jake Paul at the weigh-in

Moments before the incident, Jake Paul had marked a weight on the scale of 227.2 pounds (103 kilos) while Tyson passed the weight requirement with 228.4 pounds (103.6 kilos). Then they both approached to stage the usual face to face in this type of sports when the act went off track due to a furious reaction from Tyson.

The former heavyweight champion He suddenly went crazy and slapped his rival hard.an ‘influencer’ with more than 20 million subscribers turned boxer. An unexpected gesture that Paul accepted with amazement and that caused the rapid intervention of the security teams of both fighters.

Jake Paul Stomp

“The time to talk is up,” shouted Tyson, who left the stage annoyed, reproaching Paul for something. Later images have shown that the reaction of the former world champion was due to a stomp, accidental or not, from his rival when approaching.

“I didn’t even feel it, he’s angry,” Paul responded to the slap. “He’s an angry little elf… Lovely slap, my friend.” «This is personal, now it is personal… He must die!», added the ‘youtuber’ into the microphone.

The fight, which will take place after a first postponement in July due to Mike Tyson’s health problems, will be the first for the veteran former boxer since his TKO loss to Kevin McBride in 2005twenty years ago.

That inactivity and age, since Tyson is already 58 years old, mean that Paul, only 27, is the one who starts as the favorite for victory this evening. In his career as a boxer, he has accumulated ten wins and only one loss, and his last fight was in the month of July.

The fight, which will take place at AT&T Stadium, home of the NFL’s Dallas Cowboysbefore some 80,000 viewers, will be a milestone for the streaming platform Netflix, which will broadcast a boxing event live worldwide for the first time.