Jake Paul confirms talks with Mike Tyson for August fight Instagram\/Jakepaul\/MiketysonYouTuber-turned-boxing sensation Jake Paul has confirmed that he\u2019s in talks with legendary fighter Mike Tyson to be his next opponent in what could be the \u201cbiggest pay-per-view of all time.\u201d Rumors of a fight with Jake Paul or his brother Logan taking on Mike Tyson began a long time ago, but it seems that although there were discussions, nothing substantial ever came of them. While Tyson seemed to laugh off a possible fight on most occasions when asked publicly about it, his tune changed during a recent conversation with Joe Rogan. The possibility of breaking Floyd Mayweather\u2019s pay-per-view sales record, in particular, motivated Tyson. Now, with a fight between Jake Paul and Tyson looking more likely than ever, the 5-0 boxer has confirmed that he\u2019s in talks with Iron Mike to make the dream event a reality. Jake Paul teases Mike Tyson fight In an interview with Boxing Social, Paul claimed that former UFC champion Anderson Silva was among those the top of his list for potential opponents, but Tyson\u2019s recent comments changed things up. \u201cWe\u2019re still having some conversations with people like Mike Tyson who recently said he wanted to fight. We\u2019re trying to see what is going to be the biggest fight and make me the most excited to get into the ring,\u201d Paul teased, noting how he wasn\u2019t close to securing an August foe yet. When pressed on a possible Tyson fight, \u2018The Problem Child\u2019 revealed that he would take it in a heartbeat above all others. (segment begins at 5:16 for mobile users) \u201cThat\u2019s legendary. The old generation of boxing with the new generation of boxing all mixed into one. And like Mike said on the Joe Rogan podcast, you know, I think it would be the biggest or one of the biggest pay-per-views of all time,\u201d he added. \u201cTogether, when we were on the same card, we sold almost $2m pay-per-views, so imagine if we fought?\u201d Before ending the interview, Paul called on Tyson to make the fight happen, further stating, \u201cI know I would win. Mike thinks that he would win, so let\u2019s do it!\u201d Only time will tell if Jake and Tyson agree to battle it out and break pay-per-view records, but hopefully, Paul doesn\u2019t end up losing an ear in the process if a fight ends up going ahead this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jake Paul confirms talks with Mike Tyson for August fight Instagram\/Jakepaul\/MiketysonYouTuber-turned-boxing sensation Jake Paul has confirmed that he\u2019s in talks with legendary fighter Mike Tyson to be his next opponent in what could be the \u201cbiggest pay-per-view of all time.\u201d Rumors of a fight with Jake Paul or his brother Logan taking on Mike Tyson […]<\/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-51213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51213","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=51213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}