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Mike Tyson slapped Jake Paul during a weigh-in earlier their unrecorded boxing lucifer connected Netflix Nov. 15. Find retired wherefore the legendary boxer struck the YouTuber successful the face.
By Gabrielle Chung Nov 16, 2024 12:55 AMTags
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Mike Tyson is acceptable to spell toe-to-toe with Jake Paul.
In fact, the boxing fable said the crushed helium slapped the YouTuber successful the look during a weigh-in for their Nov. 15 fight, streaming unrecorded connected Netflix, was due to the fact that Jake had stepped connected his foot.
"I was successful my socks and helium had connected shoes," Tyson told the New York Post Nov. 14, soon aft the incident. "He stepped connected my toed due to the fact that helium is simply a f--king a--hole. I wanted to deliberation it happened by accident, but present I deliberation it whitethorn person happened connected purpose."
The 58-year-old added that helium was "in a batch of pain" during the confrontation, truthful helium "had to reciprocate."
But for Paul, the onslaught was harmless. After all, helium taunted Tyson connected signifier pursuing the slap, saying, "I didn't adjacent consciousness it."
"He's an aggravated small elf," the 27-year-old—who pivoted from YouTube to nonrecreational boxing successful 2018—continued. "Mike Tyson, I thought that was a cute slap, buddy."
However, helium did see Tyson's stunt to beryllium a "personal" attack.
"It's idiosyncratic now," Paul yelled during the weigh-in. "He indispensable die."
Paul's mother Pam Stepnick also had heated words for Tyson pursuing the slap.
In an Instagram Story video, the matriarch—who is besides ma to YouTuber-turned-professional wrestler Logan Paul, 29—was heard calling Tyson a "f--king small b---h."
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"I'm going to termination Mike Tyson for you," she quipped to her younger son, prompting him to gag back, "You slap harder than him."
Tyson's lucifer against the influencer is his archetypal nonrecreational bout successful astir 2 decades. He retired from boxing successful 2005, but did instrumentality portion successful an accumulation lucifer against Roy Jones Jr. in 2020.
At the weigh-in, Tyson—a erstwhile satellite heavyweight champion—came successful astatine 227.2 lbs. Meanwhile, Paul weighed 228.4 lbs.
The Paul vs. Tyson combat airs unrecorded connected Netflix Nov. 15 astatine 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT.
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