This Friday, November 15 (the early hours of the 16th in Spain) we will see Mike Tyson step into the ring to fight Jake Paul, a much less experienced opponent, but considerably younger: 31 years old. The former champion has not fought since that exhibition against Roy Jones Jr. in 2020 and has been seen preparing for months to look perfect for his return.
The fight has been sanctioned as a professional bout, although there are rules that make it much more ‘light’. This has led some to distrust what we will see in the ring at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Dallas. However, Britain’s Carl Froch goes a little further and refuses to acknowledge that it is anything more than an “exhibition”. The former super middleweight monarch thinks it would all be agreed.
“They keep saying it’s sanctioned as a professional boxing match, but it’s not professional boxing. First of all, Tyson is unlicensed and secondly, it’s eight two-minute rounds,” Froch complains in an interview with the British website ‘Metro’. The fight is registered on Boxrec as a professional fight and should count towards their respective records unless something changes between now and the time of the fight.
I’ve heard and I believe there’s something in the contract that says Tyson can’t hurt Paul
‘The Cobra’, one of the great British idols of the first two decades of this century, insists: “I don’t think it should happen because Tyson is too old. I don’t think it proves anything that Jake Paul beats him. I’ve heard and I believe there’s something in the contract that says Tyson can’t even try to hurt him,” Froch added. “Tyson can probably go out in the first 30 seconds of the fight and give Jake Paul a good beating, but in the end it’s an older guy against a younger one and that’s not fair,” he confessed.
According to the former champion, the fight “is fixed” and “everything is decided in advance”. However, Froch believes that if Tyson lands a strong hook on Paul’s chin, “he can knock him unconscious”.
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