Promoter Oscar De La Hoya went after Jake Paul on this week’s Clapback Thursday and ripped him for fighting 58-year-old Mike Tyson this Friday night on Netflix.
De La Hoya says he hopes Tyson knocks Jake out with a left uppercut. Oscar feels it’s low for Jake to pick former heavyweight champion Tyson for a fight because he’s an “old man” and it doesn’t add any “credibility” to his resume, which is filled with wins over older fighters.
De La Hoya says Jake can “hurt” Tyson in the fight, and he doesn’t like that. I don’t think Paul, 27, really cares what De La Hoya or anyone says about him choosing to fight Tyson because he’s been fighting older guys since he started his career four years ago in 2020.
Oscar wants Jake to lose
If Tyson gets anything meaningful with the 14-oz gloves he wears, he’ll probably knock out Jake Paul in this fight because he hasn’t been hit by anyone with his kind of power during his career. In Tyson’s workouts, it looks like he can knock down a house with a single punch.
“After just a few years in the sport, you could get yourself a huge payday, and you’re fighting Mike Tyson, but you’re fighting him at 60 years old,” Oscar De La Hoya said during his setback Thursday this week.
Paul wouldn’t be able to get this payday after only “a few years” in boxing if he didn’t have an enormous following outside of the sport as a YouTuber with over 20 million subscribers and 27 million Instagram followers. Jake makes this money from his followers, not because he worked his way up. He hasn’t fought anyone in boxing that wasn’t limited.
It might go over the heads of fans, but Jake only fought ONE boxer during his career, and it was cruiserweight Tommy Furyand he lost to him last year on February 26, 2023 by an eight-round split decision.
The rest of the fighters Paul fought were non-boxers from MMA and one basketball player. In his only experience against a boxer, Jake was trained by Tommy Fury, who is not a world class fighter. Losing to Tommy was a bad experience for Jaul, who gave up fighting boxers after that loss and has since indulged in these non-boxers:
– Mike Perry
– Ryan Bourland
– Second of August
– Nate Diaz
These are NOT boxers, and it’s understandable why Jake didn’t return to fighting sports after his loss to Tommy Fury. That guy made him look bad by out-boxing him and exposing his lack of skills.
I think it’s safe to say that even if Mike Tyson looks completely shot, he’ll still beat Jake Paul just based on his strength, experience and talent. Let’s get this straight: Jake Paul is NOT a boxer. He is an influencer making noise on YouTube and Instagram. In other words, he is a marketer.
‘It’s some serious s*** where you can actually hurt him because he’s an old man. Jake, that doesn’t add any credibility to your resume. I’ve been saying this for years. If you want to be taken seriously in boxing, you have to take a different path. Still, I’ll watch, and I hope Mike catches you with that upper left cut and knocks you out.”
“One punch. Be careful with Paul. Just because Paul has tricks. Tyson gets hit with one punch at his age, you start hearing funny noises,” said George Foreman. USA Today about what Jake Paul can do to Mike Tyson if he lands.
“Jake Paul is not a sacrifice, and he’s not afraid of any of these guys. Time is on his side. So happy for Mike Tyson, he needed this excitement in his life. Everyone is talking about it.”
