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Jake Paul finally responds to claims Mike Tyson fight was 'rigged' in record-breaking battle

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Published 11:51 20 Nov 2024 GMT

Jake Paul finally responds to claims Mike Tyson fight was 'rigged' in record-breaking battle

The YouTuber hopes to become a world champion

Rikki Loftus

Rikki Loftus

Jake Paul has finally responded to claims that his highly anticipated fight against Mike Tyson was rigged.

The record-breaking battle took place on November 15, which saw the YouTuber take victory over the former boxing champion.

The event was held at the AT&T stadium in Arlington, Texas, in front of 80,000 fans while 65 million more people streamed it live on Netflix from all around the world.

Jake Paul won the fight against Mike Tyson (Al Bello/Getty Images for Netflix © 2024)
Jake Paul won the fight against Mike Tyson (Al Bello/Getty Images for Netflix © 2024)

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And while Paul failed to knock out Tyson, his win came down to a unanimous decision.

All three judges scored the fight for Paul, 80-72, 79-73 and 79-73.

The 27-year-old landed 78 punches from 278 thrown (28 percent), while Tyson landed just 18 punches from 97 thrown, according to Netflix.

After the fight, fans took to social media to speculate about its legitimacy as some claimed that Tyson seemed to be holding back after getting in some powerful throws.

Now, the YouTuber has slammed the allegations that the fight was rigged.

Former professional boxer Carl Froch also weighed in with his thoughts, even claiming that the contract had banned Tyson from knocking out Paul.

Now, Paul has appeared on an episode of his brother Logan’s podcast, Impaulsive, to set the record straight.

In the video, Logan said: “Some people were disappointed in Mike’s performance. They thought Mike would give more. You see those videos of him going crazy hard on those pads.”

Some fans have speculated that the fight was rigged (Al Bello/Getty Images for Netflix © 2024)
Some fans have speculated that the fight was rigged (Al Bello/Getty Images for Netflix © 2024)

To which Paul responded: “People are like, ‘Oh, it’s rigged because look at him on the pads, but he didn’t do this in the fight’. Because someone is f***ing punching back, you dumb f***s.

“You don’t realize my power, and my speed, and my agility, and my footwork to get out of the way of those punches.”

“All of a sudden he’s throwing at air. He can’t land those punches on me.

“He was hard to hit. He was elusive. I was missing a lot of punches. I don’t know how he gets off to the side like that.”

And apparently the punches that Tyson did land failed to have much impact on the social media influencer.

Paul went on to claim: ““Didn’t feel a thing, to be honest. It didn’t hurt. He didn’t really land anything.”

It isn’t yet known who Paul’s next opponent will be, having previously lost in a head to head battle against Tommy Fury.

Paul said: “I want to be a world champion, that’s my goal.”

Featured Image Credit: Al Bello/Getty Images for Netflix © 2024/Getty Images
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