What to know about this summer’s fight

Former undisputed world heavyweight champion boxer Mike Tyson returns to the highlight, selling the heavyweight matchup with Jake Paul later this summer time. 

“He’s an upcoming man on the scene and I like shaking the sports activities world to its core, and I’m doing it now,” Tyson expressed on the press convention. “It’s simply one thing I wish to do.”

Tyson, with an total report of 50-6 – together with 44 knockouts – was the youngest heavyweight championship boxer at 20. He is 57 now and combating Paul, who’s 28.

“This has been a very long time coming. We’ve been calling one another out for years, and we lastly received to make it occur on Netflix, the largest platform on the earth,” Paul mentioned.

Paul began his boxing profession as a YouTuber and is 9-1 with 6 KOs, admitting he’s up towards an enormous.

“I like Jake rather a lot, however as soon as he’s in that ring, he’s going to should combat like his life is relying on it as a result of it is going to be,” Tyson predicted. 

Dealing with off the identical evening, Olympic gold medalist and tremendous light-weight world champion Katie Taylor is combating Amanda Serrano, who each bought out Madison Sq. Backyard simply two years in the past. 

“The final time me and Amanda fought it was an epic combat, an iconic combat,” Taylor mentioned. “It was in entrance of 20,000 folks in Madison Sq. Backyard. I felt like the entire of Puerto Rico and Eire have been there that evening. We get to do it once more in entrance of 400,000 folks.”

Serrano’s hoping to avenge her final loss to Taylor, which she says is just been a matter of time. 

“I feel it was all the time going to occur,” Serrano shared with the gang. “Katie and my title will all the time be hooked up to one another it doesn’t matter what, and I’m glad to be part of this to be alongside Katie. She’s a fantastic champion however we’re going to go on the market and show to the world that we deserve this path towards and the pay that we’re getting and that ladies can combat.”

Mike Tyson vs Jake Paul full combat date

Tickets go on sale Thursday at midday as the large fights are set to stream on Netflix for its 270 million subscribers on July 20 dwell from AT&T Stadium in Texas, the place the Dallas Cowboys play.