Jake Paul scored a sixth-round TKO victory over bare-knuckle fighter Mike Perry on Saturday in Tampa, Florida, in an eight-round cruiserweight boxing match.

With the win, Paul maintained his Nov. 15 showdown with the 58-year-old Mike Tyson that was initially scheduled for this night time. Paul, a social-media star turned boxer, floored Perry thrice earlier than the referee halted the bout at 1:12 of Spherical 6.

“He is robust as nails … however I simply hit too onerous and he took a number of harm,” Paul mentioned. “Mike Tyson, you are subsequent. … It is anybody, anytime, anyplace.”

Paul, who was a -475 favourite, as per ESPN BET, mentioned he was sick main as much as the combat and that his knuckle was “mainly damaged.”

Perry, 32, is the newest former UFC fighter to fall to Paul. Paul (10-1, 7 KOs) additionally defeated Tyron Woodley, Nate Diaz and Ben Askren. Paul, 27, was noticeably larger and loved a three-inch peak benefit. Perry (0-2) of Orlando, Florida, fights at 175 kilos within the Naked Knuckle Preventing Championship.

Paul, of Cleveland, scored a flash knockdown within the opening spherical with a chopping proper hand. He managed the motion from vary together with his superior jab and footwork.

A jab arrange a proper hand that dropped Perry 30 seconds into Spherical 2. Perry rebounded with a powerful Spherical 3 and opened up a reduce over Paul’s left eye. However by Spherical 4, it was Paul who as soon as once more dominated the exchanges. He rocked Perry into the ropes with combos on a number of extra events earlier than the ending sequence.

“You probably did a terrific job, you have been approach too quick for me and I could not regulate,” Perry mentioned. ” … He is not sitting there ready to be hit like me.”

Perry’s lone earlier boxing match was a fourth-round KO loss to journeyman Kenneth McNeil in Might 2015. Perry made his UFC debut one yr later. His MMA file is 14-8. All eight of his defeats befell within the UFC (he had 14 fights whole within the Octagon and by no means challenged for the title.)

Perry’s BKFC file is 5-0 and his final combat was in April.

Paul, in the meantime, will transfer onto an eight-round heavyweight bout with Tyson on Nov. 15 in Arlington, Texas, the place they’re going to put on 14-ounce gloves.

Tyson withdrew from the marquee occasion — it is going to be streamed on Netflix — after he suffered an ulcer flare-up on a flight in Might.

Saturday’s win was Paul’s second combat of 2024. He scored a first-round KO of journeyman Ryan Bourland in March in Puerto Rico.

“In two years I would be the cruiserweight champion of the f—ing world,” Paul mentioned. “I am approach sharper, cleaner. I feel he hit me with like one shot tonight. … It is again to the drafting board and I will simply hold getting higher.”

Serrano scores TKO 2, strikes onto Taylor rematch

Amanda Serrano scored a second-round TKO victory vs. the overmatched Stevie Morgan within the junior welterweight co-feature to arrange a Nov. 15 rematch with Katie Taylor.

Serrano, a former seven-division champion, landed at will towards Morgan, who was preventing on the highest degree for the primary time. Puerto Rico’s Serrano (47-2-1, 31 KOs) surprised Tampa’s Morgan (14-2, 13 KOs) on a number of events and teed off on her fellow 35-year-old till the referee stepped in.

“I feel these women mistake my kindness for weak spot,” mentioned Serrano, ESPN’s No. 3 pound-for-pound boxer. ” … In the event you not on my degree, that is what occurs. … I do know she did not have the expertise, I do know this may need been a bit of an excessive amount of for her.”

Serrano was preventing for the primary time since October, when she outpointed Danila Ramos. Serrano suffered an allergic eye response to hair braiding gel that scrapped her Puerto Rico homecoming most important occasion in March.

Serrano now strikes onto the rematch with Taylor for the undisputed junior welterweight championship. They met in April 2022 at New York’s Madison Sq. Backyard within the largest combat in girls’s boxing historical past.

Taylor (23-1, 6 KOs) received that combat by cut up resolution to retain the undisputed light-weight championship. The rematch was initially scheduled for Might 2023 in Dublin earlier than Serrano suffered an harm.

Taylor, a 35-year-old Irishwoman, is ESPN’s No. 3 pound-for-pound boxer.

“Cannot wait to go in there with you as soon as once more,” Serrano mentioned. ” … This time it’ll be rather a lot totally different.”