Mike Tyson dubs YouTube boxing the sport\u2019s \u201cbiggest help in history\u201d YouTube: ImpaulsiveMike Tyson might be one of the most fearsome boxers to ever grace the ring, but he explained in his appearance on Logan Paul\u2019s Impaulsive podcast that he believes YouTuber fights are \u201cthe biggest help for boxing.\u201d YouTube boxing has been incredibly divisive for longtime fans and major personalities in the sport. Many detractors believe that these large-scale events between personalities do a \u2018disservice\u2019 to the sport, ignoring the many years of training and sacrifice that go into being an elite boxer. If there\u2019s one person, though, that knows all too well about training and sacrifice for the sport, it\u2019s Mike Tyson arguably one of the greatest of all time \u2014 and he disagrees with that sentiment entirely. In fact, he believes YouTube boxing could be the best thing to ever happen to the sport \u2014 even if he thinks Logan doesn\u2019t stand a chance in his bout against Floyd Mayweather in February. In his appearance on Impaulsive, Tyson spoke about all manner of things, be it his wild lifestyle or pet tigers, but of course, one topic they had to discuss was boxing. As the world\u2019s youngest ever heavyweight champion, \u2018Iron\u2019 Mike Tyson might have been expected to be another detractor of the YouTube boxing world, but in fact, he\u2019s quite the opposite. After being asked for his opinion by co-host Mike Majlak, Tyson said that YouTube boxing is \u201cthe biggest help for boxing in the history of boxing\u201d and that it \u201cshows the power\u201d of the sport. He then referenced cheating that already existed in the sport \u2014 including himself biting Evander Holyfield\u2019s ear in 1997 \u2014 asking how low boxing can go and that it\u2019s \u201conly going up\u201d from those events. Of course, while it may have seemed that Mike was making those comments in jest, he was very serious in his belief that YouTube boxing is a great step forward for the sport. Read More: Logan Paul \u201cdetests\u201d his old YouTube videos – We\u2019ve already seen fights between the likes of KSI and Logan Paul do incredible pay-per-view numbers and bring new eyes into boxing, but we may have to assess in a few years how much it has really helped. That said, if Mike Tyson himself is co-signing influencers going at it in the ring, that\u2019s a pretty big deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Mike Tyson dubs YouTube boxing the sport\u2019s \u201cbiggest help in history\u201d YouTube: ImpaulsiveMike Tyson might be one of the most fearsome boxers to ever grace the ring, but he explained in his appearance on Logan Paul\u2019s Impaulsive podcast that he believes YouTuber fights are \u201cthe biggest help for boxing.\u201d YouTube boxing has been incredibly divisive […]<\/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-55183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55183","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=55183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}