In the recently awaited boxing match, 58-year-old Mike Tyson and 27-year-old Jake Paul faced each other in the ring. Paul won the match with a points advantage.
In the fight where Mike Tyson started to attack, Jake Paul won the 8-round match with the judges’ scores of 80-72, 79-73 and 79-73. Paul, who was more active in the ring with the advantage of being young and had the chance to punch his opponent more than Tyson, gave Tyson a 78-18 success at this point. In terms of punching attempts, Paul had approximately 3 times more attempts than Tyson.
More than 70 thousand people watched the match, which was held in the special ring established at the AT&T Stadium, which has a capacity of 80 thousand people, in the city of Arlington, Texas, USA. Match tickets were sold at prices ranging from 2 thousand 500 TL to 1 million 150 thousand TL.
Celebrities from all over the world from the world of cinema, art and business, including Hollywood star Charlize Theron, watched the match.
Mike Tyson, one of the legendary names of the boxing world, was the name that received more support from the audience, even though he lost the match. Tyson became the name that the audience gave more support to with their cheers both while coming to the field and during the match.
While it is estimated that millions of dollars were bet on the event, which is a professional boxing match, around the world, betting sites in some states in the USA could not accept bets for this match due to the rules of the state of Texas, which required round times to be two minutes and boxers to use larger gloves.
It is estimated that at the end of the match, Mike Tyson’s opponent earned approximately $20 million and Jake Paul, who is also a social media phenomenon, earned $40 million.
Friendship image after the match
At the press conference held before the match, there was a lot of talk about Mike Tyson slapping Jake Paul for stepping on his foot, and then Paul making insulting and swearing statements about Tyson into the microphones.
However, when the gong was heard in the last 10 seconds of the last round of the match, Jake Paul stopped fighting against Mike Tyson and bowed to him and made signs showing respect. At the end of the match, the two were seen hugging each other for a long time and saying something to each other.
After the match, when asked if he felt that he could handle such a match despite his age, Tyson said: “I didn’t prove anything to anyone, I just proved it to myself. I’m not one of those guys who tries to please the world. “I am only happy with what I can do,” he replied.
With this match, Jake Paul achieved the 11th victory of his career and Mike Tyson suffered defeat for the 7th time. Tyson is a boxer who has won 50 times in his career, 44 of which were knockouts.
The match was broadcast on Netflix, a digital media platform that broadcasts movies, TV series and documentaries. It also went down in history as the biggest live broadcast of this platform to date. It has been stated that Netflix, which is estimated to have a total of 282 million subscribers in almost every country in the world, is experiencing problems in its broadcasts in some countries. It is stated that the problems are caused by density.
