NEARLY 70% of Boxing News app users believe Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson won’t go the distance.
And while Paul is the overall betting favourite to win our fans predictions have little to split them.
Tyson is tipped by 35.25% on the BN app to win by KO/TKO but 34.58% say Paul will win by the same method.
It’s been over 19 years since Mike Tyson last fought in a professional bout when the humiliating loss to Kevin McBride brought the curtain down on a controversial career. Five of his six defeats saw the former undisputed heavyweight champion on the deck and counted out. The other involved one of boxing’s most grotesque incidents when ‘Iron’ Mike bit a piece off Evander Holyfield’s right ear in June 1997 earning him a disqualification.
Rarely does a Mike Tyson fight go the distance and only 5% of our app users think the 58 year old can get the nod over the eight-two minute rounds. Nearly 18%, however, believe 27 year old Paul will have his hand raised with a points win.
Paul is facing the biggest name, by far, in his bizarre attempt to becoming a boxing superstar. Will youth and size play their part or can the explosive pad work we have seen from Tyson be replicated in the ring on fight night?
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