Paul vs Tyson LIVE: Weigh-in updates after Jake Paul makes outrageous bets and insults rival

While the fight purses have not been officially disclosed, Paul claimed at a press conference in August: “I’m here to make $40m and knock out a legend.”

$40m equates to roughly £31.1m, while Tyson will earn approximately $20m (£15.4m), according to friend and former UFC champion Henry Cejudo.

"Yeah I had all of that [comeback offers]," former British heavyweight champion Julius Francis tells Talk Sport. “There was all of this to have a fight again with Mike Tyson. All of this like 'get you a rematch with him' and stuff like that.

“Yes it would be nice, the money-side of it. But I say for me personally, the integrity and being able to live with yourself. At the end of the day you have to sell your soul, and I don’t think it is really for me.

“I could jump back in the ring, but I couldn’t do anything near what I could and there are limits. Tyson has got himself into shape for a 58-year-old but when you are fighting a 27-year-old the downside is he could be tired after a few rounds. He should be able to destroy Paul but old injuries could come back and that's the danger."

Mike Tyson rolled back the years with an aggressive approach in his open workout for Friday’s fight with Jake Paul, to the delight of the fans in attendance.

The former heavyweight champion, 58, will box YouTube star Paul, 27, at the AT&T Stadium in Dallas, Texas this week. The fight will stream live on Netflix in an unprecedented move.

And ahead of the controversial bout – Tyson’s first professional contest since 2005 – “Iron Mike” and Paul took to the ring inside Toyota Music Factory to run through some moves for fans.

Many videos of Tyson hitting pads have gone viral in recent years, with viewers often remarking that the American’s speed and power have remained intact.

Mike Tyson has backed Tyson Fury to gain revenge on Oleksandr Usyk in their heavyweight rematch in December.

“Usyk is the best heavyweight in the world at the moment. But I’m going for Fury to beat him,” Tyson told the Mail.

“Why? Because I’m a fan. Because his father gave him my name. I’m not abandoning him now.”

“[Tyson] is older now, I pray that he comes out healthy,” Joshua said on The Jonathan Ross Show this week. “I think Jake Paul [wins] because of youth, that’s the only thing.”

Speaking about influencer boxing more generally, the former heavyweight champion added: “I personally think it’s really good. I think the boxing hardcores, they don’t like it, because they think, ‘Why are they disrespecting our sport?’

“But I think that [influencer] brings all these people into boxing, which benefits everyone else. Everyone viewing helps.”

Mike Tyson believes the rules for Friday’s fight against Jake Paul are for women.

After fighting against Roy Jones Jr in an exhibition fight in 2020 over eight two-minute rounds, the same format as Paul v Tyson, ‘Iron Mike’ was left unimpressed.

"I'm sure they had their reasons but the women fight two minutes," Tyson said at the time. "But this is bigger than me, it's not all about me, so who am I to talk. I'm just happy that we're doing it."

"Jake Paul should be absolutely ashamed of himself. He's an absolute laughingstock,” UFC legend Michael Bisping tells Mirror Fighting.

“He’s an actor. He's not a fighter. He's pulling the wool over a young generation's eyes that he's a bad*** and he's willing to take on all these fights. We know what he's doing.

“He's cherry-picking guys that are at the end of their careers. Now he's cherry-picking a guy that long retired that's 58-years-old. Mike Tyson is an absolute legend of the sport.”

here is no hate, no love, the gloves are big and the rounds will be short when Mike Tyson and Jake Paul fight on Friday night.

It makes no difference if the men share fifty million dollars for their carnival night in a Texas ring. It is one of the purest fights for money in the dirty, old boxing game; it’s not personal, it’s just cash. And, lots of it.

Tyson is 58 now, reformed, grey at the edges, his eyes have softened with his belly and each attempt at spitting venom sounds fake. Well, it probably is, so what? He was once Iron Mike, the youngest heavyweight champion in history, so please show some respect.

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Mike Tyson wasn’t in the mood for talking in the final news conference before the 58-year-old former heavyweight champion faces YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul.

Tyson had terse answers for all the questions Wednesday night, two nights before the fight against Paul, who is 31 years younger, at the home of the NFL’s Dallas Cowboys.

“I’ve said everything I had to say,” Tyson said in one of several attempts to get him to say more. “I’m just looking forward to fighting.”

“It’s cute,” Paul said of the terse Tyson. “I fear no man, so I want him to be that old savage Mike.”

Paul couldn’t even get Tyson to respond by wearing what the 27-year-old said was a “diamond-spiked ear cover.” It was Paul’s jab at Tyson over the Hall of Famer infamously biting the ear of Evander Holyfield in a 1997 fight.

Tyson did get briefly riled up when somebody asked twice what he would do if he lost. His last sanctioned bout was in 2005. Tyson fought Roy Jones Jr. in an exhibition four years ago.

“I am not going to lose,” Tyson said, his voice rising the second time it was asked. “Did you hear what I said?”

Jake Paul has trolled Mike Tyson by wearing a $100,000 ear cover in reference to the former heavyweight world champion’s infamous history with biting opponents.

Reports suggest the item from Vobara is worth six figures, with Paul acquiring it ahead of Friday’s bout on Netflix.

Paul made reference to protecting his ear in a swipe related to Tyson and his notorious move to chew down on rival Evander Holyfield’s ear in their 1997 heavyweight rematch.