Ex-boxing champ offers Jake Paul replacement if Mike Tyson can\u2019t fight YouTube: Jake PaulFormer Lightweight boxing champion Ryan Garcia has offered to step in for Mike Tyson if the Heavyweight icon can\u2019t make his fight against Jake Paul for any reason. The build-up to Jake Paul and Mike Tyson\u2019s superfight has been pretty turbulent so far, especially given the 31-year age gap between them. They\u2019ve had to negotiate different hurdles to get the fight sanctioned as a professional contest, and, despite being broadcast on Netflix, it won\u2019t be scripted \u2013 despite some of the claims that have been made. There was another bump in the road on May 27, as it was revealed that \u2018Iron\u2019 Mike had suffered an ulcer flare-up during a flight from Miami to Los Angeles and was feeling \u201cdizzy.\u201d That left the former Heavyweight champion to require medical attention upon landing. A spokesperson for Tyson has since told the Mirror that the 57-year-old is \u201cdoing great\u201d after that incident, but if it somehow affects him before the fight, Ryan Garcia is willing to step in, in his place. That\u2019s right, the former Interim WBC Lightweight champion, who is coming off a stunning upset victory over Devin Haney, has already messaged Jake about wanting to be Mike\u2019s replacement. \u201cJakey boo. If you down to fight, if Mike can\u2019t do it, let me know, I will fill in,\u201d Garcia said in an Instagram DM to the \u2018Problem Child\u2019 that he has since revealed. It\u2019s certainly an interesting one from \u2018KingRy\u2019, seeing as he and Jake have admitted to \u201cfaking\u201d their beef in a bid to stir the pot. They\u2019ve both also said that they\u2019d fight if Netflix offered them the chance to do so. Obviously, there is a pretty big weight difference between them, especially now Jake is making the difficult step up to Heavyweight. So, if Tyson was to bow out on medical grounds, then his replacement would surely be someone a bit heavier than Garcia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ex-boxing champ offers Jake Paul replacement if Mike Tyson can\u2019t fight YouTube: Jake PaulFormer Lightweight boxing champion Ryan Garcia has offered to step in for Mike Tyson if the Heavyweight icon can\u2019t make his fight against Jake Paul for any reason. The build-up to Jake Paul and Mike Tyson\u2019s superfight has been pretty turbulent so […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}