Campbell Hatton isn’t convinced by Mike Tyson’s recent training footage.
Heavyweight boxing icon, Tyson, announced his return to the sport where he will face the YouTuber-come-boxer Jake Paul on July 20th.
Since the announcement ‘Iron Mike’ has been dropping some impressive looking training videos.
But Hatton thinks it will be very different when we actually see the former undisputed heavyweight champion in the ring against an opponent 30 years his junior.
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“People get carried away because Tyson looks an absolute monster on the pads and in training”, said Hatton when speaking to talkSPORT.
“But I think that is where people are justifying it because of how good he looks in videos in training.
“But he is now 57 years old. If it was based on how you throw your hands, he would go in there and make a mess of him.
“But he is a 57-year-old bloke, who is being expected now to go through rounds of fighting and taking shots.
“His punch resistance had already gone in the early 2000s, it can’t have got better and this whole thing is sad to see.”
Hatton also thinks new fans to the sport will get the wrong idea.
He continued: “If Jake Paul goes in there and knocks him out because of punch resistance and age, you don’t want them thinking Paul has got the better of him.
“It could very easily happen Paul going in there and beating him, and it gives a wrong reading to these up and coming fans who have got into boxing through the YouTube scene.
“You don’t want the new audience getting the wrong idea, and they could do from this.”
