Mike Tyson was the boxing world’s biggest star at the Barclays Center on Saturday night.
The former champion was present at the Ryan Garcia-Devin Haney fight in Brooklyn and visited Garcia before the 25-year-old’s victory over Haney, during which he knocked him down three times.
This all comes ahead of Tyson’s next fight against YouTube star turned fighter Jake Paul on July 20.
Tyson has recently been in the news both for a workout video he released, in which he looks like a 57-year-old trying to get in shape and not a boxer preparing for a fight, as well as that for his defense of winning the match despite his age and the fact that he is over three decades older than Paul.
The fight is expected to take place at AT&T Stadium in Dallas.
“Everyone, even most athletes, is jealous,” Tyson recently told Reuters. “It sucks. I say in your heyday you couldn’t attract a million people, man, (so) why you talking? We couldn’t sell out an arena. Who, at 58 years old, could sell out an 80,000-seat arena?
Tyson last fought in an exhibition against another retired boxer, Roy Jones Jr., in 2020.
Paul, 27, has won nine of his 10 professional fights.
His only loss came against Tyson Fury’s brother Tommy over a year ago, before winning his next three fights.
Paul’s next test will be Tyson.
“Why do you think he wants to fight me and anyone else?” Tyson said. “Everyone wants to fight him. All the boxers want to fight him. But if he fights them, the only people who will come will be those who love him. The other guys, their parents might not even come to watch them. It’s just about keeping things real. They are too boring for their children to watch. It’s like watching grass grow.
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