Tyson Fury slams Mike Tyson vs Jake Paul haters amid ongoing backlash to fight Netflix\/TNT SportsTyson Fury has hit back at critics of Mike Tyson\u2019s bout with Jake Paul after he stated that the fight is \u201cfantastic for boxing\u201d. Fury, 35, was asked for his thoughts on the fight ahead of Manchester United\u2019s thrilling 4-3 victory over Liverpool in the FA Cup quarter-finals. The bout, set to be streamed live on Netflix, has faced criticism from some fans as they question just how good the fight will be between the pair who have a 30-year age gap between them. Yet Fury was adamant that it will only be a good thing for the sport, insisting that the level of intrigue in the fight will drive a massive audience. Fury: Mike Tyson vs Jake Paul \u201cfantastic for boxing\u201d \u201cI think it\u2019s fantastic for boxing,\u201d Fury told the The Stomping Ground. \u201cYou\u2019ve got a legend in Mike Tyson. You\u2019ve got a YouTube boxer, he has come into the game and blew it up and he\u2019s got millions of followers and millions of views and millions of eyes. \u201cGood, bad, or indifferent. Some people love him, some people hate him. So, I think it\u2019s a really good spectacle for boxing.\u201d Topic starts at 5:56 \u201cIt\u2019d be fantastic for the guys, both getting paid, both going to put on a show,\u201d he added. \u201cI just don\u2019t know what\u2019s not to like? \u201cOkay, [Tyson\u2019s] 57-years-old, but he\u2019s a former undisputed world heavyweight king, and [Paul] plays computers for a living and he\u2019s come to boxing about a year ago. So, [a] pretty even match! \u201cFrom being a kid on the Disney Channel to fighting Mike Tyson. Who wouldn\u2019t want to do that? \u201cPeople say, \u2018Oh, it\u2019s s***\u2019, this, that and the other. But, I bet they still watch it. Who\u2019s not intrigued?\u201d Fury, meanwhile, is gearing up for his fight with Oleksandr Usyk on May, 18. The initial February date for the bout was postponed after Fury suffered a freak injury in sparring that left him with a cut eye needing 11 stitches. But the Gypsy King has promised fans that he will be fighting no matter what, after he provided an update on the injury ahead of Anthony Joshua\u2019s demolition of Francis Ngannou.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tyson Fury slams Mike Tyson vs Jake Paul haters amid ongoing backlash to fight Netflix\/TNT SportsTyson Fury has hit back at critics of Mike Tyson\u2019s bout with Jake Paul after he stated that the fight is \u201cfantastic for boxing\u201d. Fury, 35, was asked for his thoughts on the fight ahead of Manchester United\u2019s thrilling 4-3 […]<\/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-21746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21746","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=21746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}