Mike Tyson says he was left with no choice but to slap Jake Paul silly at the weigh-in for stepping on his foot during the face-off. Tyson (50-6, 44 KOs) says he was barefoot, and Paul ran up and stepped on his foot on purpose.
Tyson wasn’t going to let Paul (10-1, 7 KOs) disrespect him like that, so he knocked the taste out of his mouth with a right hand slap. That was bad enough Jake bear crawl to former heavyweight champion Tyson, who was very strange. Why do it?
It was as if Paul asked to be tagged by Tyson because he was show contempt for the former champion with those moves. Fans think this was a 100% intentional move by Jake to see how far he could push Tyson before he reacted. He was tested. If Jake had gotten away with it, it would have been a psychological victory for him, showing that Tyson submitted.
Jake teased Mike
In a way, Jake is Paul Tyson’s boss because he’s the one who picked him, and this fight will stuff his bank account with millions. I mean, Tyson is already rich, but this would more than double his net worth.
Paul, 27, is incredibly wealthy, with a fortune estimated at $80 million, and that total will rise to more than $100 million after tonight’s fight against the 58-year-old Tyson. Jake is expected to get $40 million for the eight-rounder.
“I was in my socks, and he had shoes on; he stepped on my toe for making a hole. I was in a lot of pain. I had to reciprocate,” Mike Tyson said NYpost about why he slapped Jake Paul.
I’m just surprised that Mike Tyson didn’t punch Jake instead of slapping him because he could have done a lot worse. The old Tyson of 30 years ago would not have tolerated Jake stepping on his toe while wearing hard shoes. Tyson is getting a nice little $20 million purse for tonight’s fight, so it makes sense that he didn’t want to jeopardize that payday.
Iron Mike’s net worth is estimated at $10 million. He spent a lot of the dough he made in his career, and when he was fighting popular fighters like Tyson, Lennox Lewis and Evander Holyfield weren’t getting the huge purses you see today for guys like Tyson Fury.
