Mike Tyson \u201cproud\u201d of Logan Paul for taking Floyd Mayweather to 8 rounds Instagram: miketyson \/ YouTube: ImpaulsiveAfter his exhibition boxing bout with Floyd Mayweather Jr. resulted in a stalemate, Logan Paul was lavishly praised by Mike Tyson in a FaceTime call. In one of the most hyped fights of the year, nobody knew quite what to expect when Logan Paul took to the ring alongside boxing legend Floyd Mayweather. On the one hand, there was Mayweather: an undisputed welterweight champion with a staggering 50-0 record. On the other hand, Paul was 18 years his junior and physically superior, but his only previous fights had been vs YouTuber JJ \u2018KSI\u2018 Olatunji, and Paul had won neither. Ultimately, the fight ended in a stalemate, and Tyson gave Paul some words of encouragement after avoiding defeat to one of the greatest boxers of all-time. \u201cYou kicked ass. I was wrong. You kicked ass. Ain\u2019t no doubt about it,\u201d Tyson said. \u201cI\u2019m proud of you. You\u2019re the baddest. Everybody\u2019s talking about you. You\u2019re the man. You went eight rounds with the greatest of all time.\u201d Paul was very complimentary of his opponent on the night, but Tyson believed he fended off Mayweather well. \u201cHe was quick. He was fast,\u201d Paul said. \u201cNah, he wasn\u2019t that sassy,\u201d Tyson replied. \u201cYou got him with those punches.\u201d Tyson was made to somewhat eat his words, having predicted back in December that Mayweather was going to \u201cbeat his f***ing ass\u201d, although he did expect Paul to \u201cfight back\u201d. And Tyson has made his admiration of the Paul brothers well-known, having credited the duo for reigniting mainstream interest in the \u201cdying sport\u201d as UFC threatened to usurp boxing as the most popular combat sport. In fact, Tyson then backed Jake to take down former UFC champion Tyron Woodley in their fight which is due to take place in August. \u201cTyron is going to get knocked the f*** out, right?\u201d Mike added. \u201cListen, man. Until you guys lose, I\u2019ve got to stick with you. You made me proud of you. Congratulations. That\u2019s beautiful.\u201d Despite names like Conor McGregor and Jake Paul being touted, it\u2019s not yet known who Logan will face in his next fight. But the encouragement from Tyson and ability to go the distance with Mayweather will put him in good stead \u2013 no matter who he ends up facing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Mike Tyson \u201cproud\u201d of Logan Paul for taking Floyd Mayweather to 8 rounds Instagram: miketyson \/ YouTube: ImpaulsiveAfter his exhibition boxing bout with Floyd Mayweather Jr. resulted in a stalemate, Logan Paul was lavishly praised by Mike Tyson in a FaceTime call. In one of the most hyped fights of the year, nobody knew quite […]<\/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-55189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55189","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=55189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}