Mike Tyson has responded to Jake Paul’s viral ‘don’t charge at me’ warning.
The 58-year-old boxing legend is set to fight professionally for the first time in almost 20 years when he squares off against Jake Paul at the AT&T Stadium in Texas on November 15.
Fight fans are worried about Mike Tyson taking on a man 31 years his junior, but the former undisputed heavyweight champion is confident that he can roll back the years and KO the YouTuber-turned-boxer.Even after watching footage of Paul dropping a top-15 heavyweight in sparring.
Mike Tyson responds to Jake Paul’s viral training footage
On Thursday, Paul shared a brief clip from a sparring session that showed the 27-year-old flooring one of his teammates with a massive overhand right.
The boxer was later revealed to be 6-0 prospect DeAndre Savage, who is from Michigan and turned professional in 2021 after four years on the amateur circuit.
Savage stands at 6’3 and has weighed in as heavy as 300lb+ in his professional career, where he has been on a run of victories. His series of wins has even seen him land a spot in the WBA world rankings, coming in at number 15 with the recognized governing body.
After dropping Savage, Paul looked directly into the camera and sent a message to his next opponent, he said: “Don’t charge at me, Tyson.”
On Saturday, Tyson uploaded footage from his first camp since 2005 to Instagram.
‘Iron Mike’ drenched in sweat while working on strengthening his neck.
The clip was accompanied by a caption that addressed Paul’s recent warning to him and a bold prediction of how their fight will play out.
Tyson wrote: “While Jake keeps talking, I’m going to keep training. Going to fuck him up.”
Mike Tyson insists his comeback fight isn’t about money
Since walking away from his ridiculously successful boxing career, Tyson has enjoyed even more financial success with his Cannabis company, Tyson 2.0.
Despite him and Paul sharing a $80million pot when they fight, Tyson insists that his return to the ring is not about financial gain, it’s about testing himself on the world stage.
“I could be waiting on a check every day from cannabis,” he said in September.
“That’s bulls*** for me. I’m a man, I want to go out there and I want to expose myself to risk. Sometimes I want to see who I really am.
“I want to see what I’m really made out of. I want to perform in front of the world. To me, that’s all I ever knew how to do since I was 14.
“This fight is not going to change my life financially enough.
“This is just what I want to do.”
