Paul vs Tyson LIVE: Latest updates and start time as tension builds for fight night after weigh-in slap

Paul now stands at 10-1 after his loss to Tommy Fury in February of 2023, though he has since defeated ex-UFC stars Nate Diaz and Mike Perry.

His first bout came in January 2020 against fellow YouTuber AnEsonGib, before he entered the ring against professional sportsmen – first in the form of ex-NBA player Nate Robinson, and then against ex-wrestler Ben Askren.

Since then, Paul has also fought and beaten ex-UFC star Tyron Woodley, and – perhaps most famously – UFC legend and hall-of-fame middleweight Anderson Silva.

Paul has already fought twice this year, beating Ryan Bourland in March and Mike Perry in July.

Mike Tyson and Jake Paul will meet in a divisive fight tonight, squaring off at the Dallas Cowboys’ stadium in Texas.

Tyson, 58, and YouTube star Paul, 27, were due to fight in July but had to delay the bout when the heavyweight icon had a health scare.

In late May, Tyson suffered an ulcer flare-up on a flight, leading the contest to be moved to this week. Assuming there are no late issues, the fight will finally go ahead on Friday, streaming live on Netflix in an unprecedented move.

Here’s all you need to know about how to watch the huge boxing event on Netflix.

Tonight has plenty of highlights to look forward to - the rematch of Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano is set to be an epic. They weighed in last night at exactly the same level...

Tony Bellew crashed the press conference for Jake Paul vs Mike Tyson on Wednesday, holding a “Fisher Price” microphone as he was accompanied by an old man in boxing gloves – before the pair were kicked out.

Britain’s Bellew, a former world champion, was in the crowd wearing a t-shirt showing the logo of a betting site, and he was standing alongside an older man in a boxing robe and gloves. Bellew also had a microphone, with which he spoke over a journalist who was asking a question inside Toyota Music Factory.

Bellew’s words were difficult to hear, but he appeared to call Paul a “clown”, while host Ariel Helwani tried to drown out the 41-year-old, comparing Bellew’s microphone to a “Fisher Price” toy.

Mike Tyson has reportedly revealed the reason behind his slap on Jake Paul at the weigh-in, telling the NY Post: “I was in my socks and he had on shoes.

 “He stepped on my toe because he is an a**hole. I wanted to think it happened by accident. But now I think it may have happened on purpose,” he added.

“I was in a lot of pain. I had to reciprocate.”

“Are we doing video?” Jake Paul asks, half-aiming the question at me and half-directing it towards his representative on the Zoom call. “Err, yeah?” I reply. “I don’t usually upload the video from these sorts of chats, but...”

But it would seem strange to interview one of the biggest screen presences of the last decade and not have him appear, well, on screen.

‘Biggest’ replaces ‘most popular’ here, given the word ‘popular’ tends to imply widespread affection, and it’s fair to say that Paul is more well-known than well-liked. Controversies have arisen at intervals since the American emerged on Vine in 2013, three years before his two-season stint on the Disney Channel series Bizaardvark. Paul, 27, has nevertheless only seen his profile grow in the decade since, with 20 million YouTube subscribers and 27m Instagram followers at the time of writing. Still, he does not identify as a YouTuber or influencer anymore; he’s a professional boxer.

Mike Tyson is not a nice guy, and he is not at peace. Those are his words. The words of a former world heavyweight champion. The words of a brutal fighter once proclaimed (fairly) as the “baddest man on the planet”. The words of a fighter who chewed a chunk out of an opponent’s ear. The words of a father, husband, podcaster and convicted criminal.

There was a time when Mike Tyson was a simple being – 40 years ago, perhaps. So purely violent and destructive was the boxer that he was arguably as one-dimensional as he was single-minded. Nowadays, things are more complicated. For a long time, he has been a genuine enigma.

The American, who still holds the record for being boxing’s youngest-ever world heavyweight champion, is older now. The 58-year-old did his time in prison – from 1992 to 1995 after being convicted of rape, plus nine months in 1999 for assaulting two motorists – and served his ban for biting into Evander Holyfield’s ear. Despite his troubling and troubled past, Tyson is loved by many boxing fans for the memories he gave them during his prime; he is treasured for the sense of wonderment he drilled through their TV screens and into their living rooms with vicious, merciless strikes in the Eighties and Nineties.

Mike Tyson slapped Jake Paul in a heated final face-off for their boxingmatch, leading the YouTuber to say the heavyweight legend “hits like a b***h.”

Tyson, 58, will fight YouTuber Paul, 27, in Texas on Friday (15 November), in the former heavyweight champion’s first professional bout in 19 years.

And one night before that divisive fight, Tyson and Paul tipped the scales at a weigh-in, as fans in Dallas cheered the boxing great and booed the social-media star. Paul weighed in at 227.2lb, before Tyson came in at 228.4lb.

Then, as Paul and Tyson came face to face, the latter slapped Paul, before security separated the pair.

The start time for the fight is not yet known for sure, though the event itself will begin at 1am GMT on Saturday 16 November (5pm PT, 7pm CT, 8pm ET on Friday). 

No time has yet been announced for the Paul vs Tyson ring walks, but they are expected at around 4am GMT on Saturday (8pm PT, 10pm CT, 11pm ET on Friday), with the ring walks for Taylor vs Serrano expected at around 2.30am GMT.

Ireland’s Katie Taylor has weighed in at the exact same weight as Puerto Rico’s Amanda Serrano ahead of Friday night’s highly-anticipated rematch between the two.

The 38-year-old will defend her status as undisputed world light-welterweight champion in her second showdown against Serrano, with both fighters weighing in at 137.4lbs (62kg).

Taylor won a narrow all-action contest with Serrano by a split decision in 2022 on a historic night at Madison Square Garden.