Order Now with Main Event on Kayo Sports.<\/a><\/p>\nCrawford, a recently retired five-division champion and longtime Tyson admirer, is certainly among the skeptics.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it was scripted,\u201d he told Joe Rogan on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast when asked about the fight.<\/p>\n
\u201cI ain\u2019t never seen Tyson biting his gloves and \u2013 it was taking all that he could not to hit him.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was just like, it\u2019s heartbreaking to see an icon go out like that.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the aftermath of the fight, numerous conspiracy theories emerged online, including claims that slow-motion footage showed Tyson deliberately pulling his punches.<\/p>\n
Paul and his promotion company have strongly rejected these allegations of impropriety. <\/p>\n
Still, Crawford believes the entire spectacle should never have happened.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe shouldn\u2019t have been in there. At all,\u201d Crawford said. <\/p>\n
\u201cI think there\u2019s other ways. I think, with all his connections and things like that, I think people could have put him in the right position to make some money.\u201d<\/p>\n
Crawford is far from alone in his criticism of the fight.<\/p>\n
UFC superstar Conor McGregor called it \u201c16 minute spar in sparring gloves\u201d in a since-deleted post on X. \u201cF**k off,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Veteran boxing journalist Dan Rafael, meanwhile, wrote on X that he was \u201csad watching this\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cTyson looks like Tyson, but nothing left under the hood,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Even basketball legend Magic Johnson weighed in. <\/p>\n
\u201cI cut it off because I couldn\u2019t watch anymore,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s sad to see Mike Tyson like this because I went to every Tyson fight. This fight tonight was not great for boxing.\u201d<\/p>\n
The allegations of a fix have been addressed by Paul, who issued a blistering response on his brother Logan\u2019s podcast last year.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople are like, \u2018Oh it\u2019s rigged because look at him on the pads,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2018He didn\u2019t do this in the fight.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause someone is f***ing punching back, you dumb f**ks.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou don\u2019t realise my power, my jab, my speed and my ability and footwork to get out of the way of those punches.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo then all of a sudden, he\u2019s literally throwing at air – he can\u2019t land those punches on me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Despite turning 60 soon, Tyson is planning another return to boxing later this year in an exhibition fight against Floyd Mayweather Jr.<\/p>\n
Bout ends in draw after big late punch | 00:39<\/p>\n
Former multi-weight world champion Mayweather retired from boxing in 2017, unbeaten in 50 bouts, though he has appeared in several exhibition fights since.<\/p>\n
He is planning one more professional fight with former rival Manny Pacquiao at the Sphere in Las Vegas this September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boxing superstar Terence Crawford didn\u2019t hold back when reflecting on the 2024 blockbuster clash between Mike Tyson and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500053,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-500052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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