Jake Paul rejects negative reaction to Mike Tyson fight

Nearly 80,000 people were hoping boxing legend Mike Tyson would turn back the clock Friday night against Jake Paul — and the excitement at AT&T Stadium was in the air early.

But in the fourth round, when Tyson began to look like a 58-year-old who hadn’t had a professional fight in 19 years, the crowd began to die out. Moments later boos were loud and the crowd then grew restless.

The reaction on social media was the same, with many quickly losing interest in the greatest boxing spectacle in modern history. Maybe tons of connection problems on Netflix, where the match was shown live and minutes of buffering also added to the slump.

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Mike Tyson (in black shorts) and Jake Paul (in silver shorts) exchange blows during their world heavyweight titles in the Premiere Boxing Championship Friday night at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas on November 15. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Sure, almost no one in the crowd wanted to see Jake Paul win, but the crowd booed the entire act — not just Paul. In the end, it was a unanimous decision victory for Paul.

Tyson clearly ran out of gas early on, which could have caused Paul, 31 years Tyson’s junior, to pounce, but Paul later admitted he had let off the pedal.

“Definitely a little bit. I wanted to give the fans a show, but I didn’t want to hurt anybody that didn’t need to be hurt,” he said in his post-fight presser. Tyson did not speak to the media.

“I tried to give the best fight I possibly could, but when someone is just surviving in the ring, it’s hard to make it exciting. I couldn’t really get him to engage or slip away and do something super cool or whatever whatever.” he added.

Jake Paul and Mike Tyson embrace after their heavyweight boxing match on November 15 in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

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Well, it led to what has been widely regarded as a dull match. In fact, the most exciting part of all of this might just have been Tyson’s slap at Thursday’s weigh-in.

But Paul, in his own words, doesn’t care about the negativity.

“I don’t care what people have to say. They’re always going to have something to say. It is what it is.”

Most Valuable Promotions co-founder Nakisa Bidarian added: “The only way people would have been happy is if Jake lost. People would have been like ‘oh what a great fight! Mike is a legend!’ (If) he knocked Mike Tyson out, it would have been rigged. It went eight rounds, ‘The fight wasn’t good enough.’ It was an incredible display between a 58-year-old legend and 27-year-old relatively young boxer.

“And (Paul) outboxed Mike Tyson like he said he would.”

American YouTuber/boxer Jake Paul celebrates winning the heavyweight boxing match against retired pro boxer Mike Tyson (R) at The Pavilion at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas on November 15. (TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images)

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Paul improved to 11-1 in his young career. The loss was Tyson’s seventh, against 50 previous victories.

Tyson has now lost his last three sanctioned fights and four of his last five, his last victory coming on February 22, 2003.

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