Jake Paul has clapped back at critics of his win over Mike Tyson.
Paul, coaxed a 58-year-old Tyson out of retirement to box professionally again.
The fight turned out to be a pretty drab affair with it very much having the feel of an exhibition contest.
Despite this Paul claimed a points decision verdict over the former baddest man on the planet, but many fans are not convinced with the authenticity of the contest and the YouTuber has had his say.
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“People are like, ‘Oh yeah, it’s rigged because look at him on the pads but he didn’t do this in the fight,’ because someone is f*cking punching back you dumb f*cks,” Paul said on Impaulsive.
“People don’t realize my power, and my jab and my speed and my ability, and my footwork to get out of the way of those punches, so then all of a sudden he’s throwing at, literally, air.
“He can’t land those punches on me.”
“I mean, what do they want? They just want me to lose.”
“That’s the only way they would’ve thought it was entertaining. This is fighting. This is the sport. Sometimes there’s going to be NFL games where they score 10 points each and it’s f*cking boring.
“What do you want? What happened happened. All possibilities are there when you go into a fight. And then if I would’ve knocked Mike out, they still would’ve hated and been like, ‘Jake’s a f*cking asshole. They’re literally finding any reason to hate on any part of it, so it’s not just as simple as, ‘I didn’t like that.’”
Do you think the fight was rigged? Let us know in the comments.
Looked totally rigged. Mike’s sparring partners are all fighters, and he’s knocking them back several feet, and he’s dodging their blows, and he’s throwing lightning fast haymakers. None of Mike was shown in this 8 round fight. He was holding back, holding in, hardly doing anything that Mike does, biting his glove cause he was refrained for a K.O. in the 1st or 2nd round.