Mike Tyson looked like a horrible, miserable caricature of the fighter he once was, losing to YouTuber boxer Jake Paul by a wide eight-round unanimous decision on Friday night in a telecast peppered with problems on Netflix. Fans were outraged by the ever-leaking video, and it got worse when the Tyson vs. Paul fight began.
Tyson has battled injuries
After the fight, Tyson mentioned that he was dealing with injuries, but added, “I don’t want to make excuses.” What is he talking about? The mere mention of Tyson having injury problems was him making an excuse.
The fight showed how little 58-year-old Mike Tyson (50-7, 44 KOs) had left, swinging by three left hooks from Paul (11-1, 7 KOs) in the third and struggling through the remaining five rounds.
Round eight was the cherry on top of a miserable night for fans. Neither fighter did anything as the hapless crowd of 72,000+ at AT& Stadium in Arlington booed.
Tyson looked like a dinosaur
The scores for the mismatch were 80-72, 79-73 and 79-73, all for the 27-year-old Jake, who had too much youth for the 60-year-old Tyson. It wasn’t that Jake was great. It was more a case of Tyson being as old as the extinct dinosaurs, which is where he should be. He doesn’t belong in a ring. The way Tyson looked, he should have been in a care home.
Tyson had trouble moving around the ring with his old, tired legs and looked exhausted in the championship rounds between six and eight. The weird part is that Jake didn’t even fight hard, and yet Tyson looked like he’d been through an old 15-round fight. He was so tired that the fight should have been stopped.
Paul seemed to lighten up on his punches and intentionally didn’t go after Tyson after hurting him in the third. All it would have taken was one short 10-second burst of punches from Jake, and he would have knocked Tyson out.
“I tried to hurt him,” Jake said after the fight.
What was interesting is that Mike hinted that he would return to the fray to fight again, referring to Jake’s brother, Logan Paul. A fight between them wouldn’t sell after tonight’s train crash.
Netflix streams froze
Fans were upset, complaining throughout tonight’s Tyson-Paul event about the Netflix streams freezing on them, preventing them from watching the action without constant interruptions.
If Netflix continues to box in the future, they will need to solve the release problem in order for fans to want to order their events.
