It’s almost February 2025 and yes, although it may be shocking to many, people are still talking about the fight between Jake Paul and Mike Tyson, more than two months after it took place at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, but the question is why?
It turns out that the younger of the Paul brothers attended as a guest on ‘Ring Champs’, a new podcast on the ‘All the Smoke Fight’ platform hosted by Akin ‘AK’ Reyes and Barak Bess. The show also featured Nakisa Bidarian, a man close to Jake and co-founder of Most Valuable Productions.
The bombardment was relentless on many topics, including a possible fight with Canelo Alvarez, but it was when Mike Tyson was mentioned that things got intense and Jake Paul had to step in to correct his interviewers when they suggested that Paul would have asked for special conditions to face the Mexican.
Clarifications about clarifications
“There was a lot of s*** about Tyson being old and 14-ounce gloves and two-minute rounds,” Paul said, to which Reyes responded: “So you won’t ask for anything to be changed with regard to the commission. That’s when Bidarian stepped in and said “He never asked for anything. In the conversation, Paul made it clear that if it had been up to him, the fight would have been 10 rounds of three minutes each.
It was Bidarian who went further in defending Paul: “In fact the fight was going to be an exhibition. Mike and his team pushed for it to be a professional fight and we got the commission comfortable with the modified rules.”
The debate then focused on the duration of the two-minute rounds, a criterion that ended up being imposed as they invoked women’s boxing in which the rounds are of that duration, so they said that if it was given in women’s boxing, nothing prevented it from being given in men’s boxing.