Hardly anyone, conversely, will be calling for a rematch of the main event between Jake Paul and Mike Tyson.
The louder calls will almost certainly be for Tyson to step away from the ring for good.
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âś” Mike Tyson goes the distance in his first professional fight in nearly 20 years
✔Jake Paul dominated the fight as an unsteady Tyson refused to throw punches
âś” Tyson insists he might fight AGAIN, next time against Jake’s brother Logan
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Well before the end it was sad. Mike Tyson never looked like beating Jake Paul and he had no chance of defeating Father Time.
To Jake Paul’s immense credit he pulled off a spectacular event and treated his idol with not only respect but also kindness
A 31-year age difference was indeed too wide a gap for a 58-year-old to bridge. Nineteen years since his last serious fight did turn Iron Mike rusty.
Paul saw it quickly. Even though Tyson did just about enough to make the first the only round he won.
The YouTuber kept doing enough to ensure his 11th victory in 12 fights but not sufficient to inflict serious damage on a man who got older with every round
Tyson’s achievement was to go the eight round distance. Albeit with a little help from his new friend.
There were a few boos at the finish but most of the packed Dallas Cowboys Stadium enjoyed their bizarre night out and joined Paul in paying tribute to the legend.
Paul was landing on Tyson whenever he felt like it
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The good ol’ guys of Texas and their gals rolled in late from the bars. Most of the minds under those stetsons were focussed solely on Tyson and the curiosity of what might be his final appearance in boxing’s last chance saloon.
This wasn’t a fight crowd much fussed about undercards. Katie Taylor excepted, until she head-butted her way to the most outrageous of recent fights in which she has been the beneficiary of highly dubious decions and was jeered out of the ring.
While the fans loitered before taking their seats under the vast dome of this arena they were preceded in by the announcement that Tyson and Paul had set a new record for prize-fighting in the Lone Star state of $17.8 million in ticket sales.
On its own that would not have covered the multi-million dollar purses of the two principals – think 15 million for Mike and 35 for Jake – but it gave Netflix a solid base for funding the cost of this retro extravaganza.
One boost came with a late raising of prices which counterbalanced much of the short fall from a drastic cut after Tyson’s imploding stomach ulcer forced a postponement which sowed doubt as to whether the fight would ever take place.
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