Former world champion claims Jake Paul is \u201cbuying scalps\u201d ahead of Mike Tyson fight Associated PressFormer cruiserweight world champion, Johnny Nelson, has claimed that Jake Paul is \u201cbuying scalps\u201d ahead of his fight with Mike Tyson this summer. Paul and Tyson will go toe-to-toe in the ring on July 20, in Arlington, Texas. There is a 30 year age gap between the pair, as \u2018Iron Mike\u2018 enters the fight well beyond his prime years. In fact, Tyson\u2019s last professional fight came nearly 20 years ago back in 2005. This has left Nelson to question Paul\u2019s tactics in choosing opponents who are over the hedge, something that he believes is a clear strategy from \u2018The Problem Child\u2018. \u201cI know Mike, and I think what Jake Paul has done is buy scalps,\u201d Nelson told Dexerto on behalf of BetVictor. \u201cYou saw Jake Paul beat Anderson Silva. Do you think Jake Paul would have been able to do that against the Anderson Silva we know? The young version that was at the top of his game, no, he couldn\u2019t have. \u201cWhat he\u2019s done again, he\u2019s buying a scalp in Mike Tyson. We know Mike, we respect him. We know how tremendous this man was and how much he dominated the heavyweight division. Jake Paul has bought a scalp. \u201cTyson, if he\u2019s going in for the money, well, go on, go for it. Anything other than the money, don\u2019t do it man, don\u2019t do it. \u201cHonestly, if you\u2019re going in for the money then it means, \u2018I don\u2019t care if I get turned over. I don\u2019t care what happens to me, I\u2019m getting paid $50 million. I\u2019m 57-years-old. I\u2019m getting paid $50 million to fight.\u2019 \u201cAnd if that\u2019s what he\u2019s going to do, and that\u2019s what\u2019s comfortable doing, that\u2019s on him. But I am telling you now, if he gets turned over and turned over badly, it will haunt him for the rest of his life. The $50 million in the bank is not going to make any difference. \u201cMike Tyson is older than his dad! Mike Tyson is my age! So, he\u2019s just buying a scalp and so I don\u2019t like to see but it\u2019s going to happen. And I hope Tyson knocks him out. But I don\u2019t think that\u2019s going to happen.\u201d Tyson, 57, will take on Paul, 27, on July, 20. The fight will be streamed live on Netflix, taking place at the AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, home of the NFL\u2018s Dallas Cowboys. A mouth-watering $2 million VIP ticket package has already been revealed, ahead of their official sale on Thursday, May 16 at 12pm ET. The fight has divided opinion in the boxing world. Tyson Fury has insisted that the bout is \u201cfantastic for boxing,\u201d while Anthony Joshua\u2019s promoter, Eddie Hearn, dubbed it a \u201cfreak show.\u201d Some of the biggest concerns surrounding the fight are over the 30-year age gap between the pair, with fears touted by some that Tyson could potentially suffer major injuries during the bout. But Tyson\u2019s trainer, Rafael Cordeiro, has dismissed fears concerning the boxing legend\u2019s health, insisting that the 57-year-old is in great shape. For all the biggest results and upcoming fights this year, check out Dexerto\u2019s 2024 boxing schedule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Former world champion claims Jake Paul is \u201cbuying scalps\u201d ahead of Mike Tyson fight Associated PressFormer cruiserweight world champion, Johnny Nelson, has claimed that Jake Paul is \u201cbuying scalps\u201d ahead of his fight with Mike Tyson this summer. Paul and Tyson will go toe-to-toe in the ring on July 20, in Arlington, Texas. There is […]<\/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-21517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21517","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=21517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}