Mike Tyson’s debatable go back to boxing resulted in a one-sided defeat on Friday, with Youtuber-turned-prizefighter Jake Paul cruising to victory via unanimous choice towards the heavyweight icon in Texas.
Tyson, 58, slightly landed a punch all through the eight-round bout on the AT&T Stadium in Arlington, with Paul successful via bulky margins on all 3 playing cards — 80-72, 79-73 and 79-73.
Paul, 27, old his admirable pace and motion to dominate the getting older Tyson with leisure, and had the previous undisputed heavyweight champion in hassle later touchdown a flurry of punches within the 3rd around.
But the more youthful fighter was once not able to land the knockout dissipate he had promised in order all through Thursday’s ill-tempered weigh-in, the place Tyson slapped him around the face.
Tyson, on the other hand, regarded each and every little bit of his 58 years, managing to land just a handful of significant punches all through the battle.
Ultimate statistics confirmed Tyson hooked up with simply 18 of 97 punches thrown time Paul threw some 278 punches and landed 78 of them.
As the overall seconds of the 8th around counted unwell, Paul may just even manage to pay for to bow in recognize to Tyson sooner than the bell sounded.
AFP
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