{"id":158392,"date":"2025-09-21T08:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T08:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/158392\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T08:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T08:11:07","slug":"mike-tyson-showed-true-colours-with-admission-about-jake-paul-fight-boxing-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/158392\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Tyson showed true colours with admission about Jake Paul fight | Boxing | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mike Tyson maintained he fought Jake Paul<\/a> for his passion for boxing, rather than a massive payday. Twelve months ago, the former world heavyweight champion was gearing up to take on the influencer-turned-boxer at AT&T Stadium in Texas.<\/p>\n

At 58 and more than three decades older than his rival, Tyson’s<\/a> comeback proved highly contentious. Many fans believed he was simply pursuing it for monetary reasons. The bout proved disappointing, with Paul securing a points victory after Tyson barely landed a blow of note<\/a> during the eight rounds. Nevertheless, Tyson, who has agreed to face fellow boxing icon Floyd Mayweather in an exhibition<\/a> next year, maintained the estimated \u00a315million he earned from the contest wasn’t his main motivation.<\/p>\n

Referring to his profitable cannabis-based wellness enterprise, he remarked during a commentary stint at a Cage Wars MMA event: “I could be waiting on a cheque every day from cannabis.<\/p>\n

“That’s bulls*** for me [that he fought Paul for the money]. 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.<\/p>\n

“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.”<\/p>\n

Tyson, who will be 60 next year, is now set to face former five-weight world champion Mayweather,<\/a> 48, in an eight-round exhibition. The fight was announced by boxing production company CSI Sports, although no details regarding the venue or date have been released, other than it is scheduled for spring.<\/p>\n

Tyson said: “This fight is something neither the world nor I ever thought would or could happen. Boxing has entered a new era of the unpredictable \u2013 and this fight is as unpredictable as it gets.”<\/p>\n

“I still can’t believe Floyd wants to really do this. It’s going to be detrimental to his health, but he wants to do it, so it’s signed and it’s happening.”<\/p>\n

Mayweather, who retired undefeated after 50 fights, with his last victory being against MMA star Conor McGregor in 2017, confidently said: “I’ve been doing this for 30 years and there hasn’t been a single fighter that can tarnish my legacy.<\/p>\n

“You already know that if I am going to do something. It’s going to be big and it’s going to be legendary.<\/p>\n

“I’m the best in the business of boxing. This exhibition will give the fans what they want.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mike Tyson maintained he fought Jake Paul for his passion for boxing, rather than a massive payday. Twelve…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,47675,105413,26700,9225,8199,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-158392","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-boxing","11":"tag-boxing-section","12":"tag-boxing-exhibition","13":"tag-floyd-mayweather","14":"tag-jake-paul","15":"tag-mike-tyson","16":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}