Mike Tyson didn't enter the fight against Jake Paul to add to his 44 knockouts or 50-6 record.
This isn't just about a $20 million payout, but this lump sum could be the most he's ever earned in a single game.
Instead, Tyson, who at 58 years old is at least a decade past his prime, was fighting an internet sensation who was half his age, so that kids could see the Tyson he once was, and the world. He said it gave him a glimpse of one of the greatest fighters of all time. history of sports.
Tyson knows that martial arts existed even before he was a kid.
Tyson has seven children, ranging in age from 13 to 34, with four different mothers.
He also had a daughter who tragically passed away at the age of four.
Ryan Clark recalled Friday on the podcast “The Pivot.” be shocked by one thing From a recent interview with the legendary boxer.
Clark, an ESPN NFL analyst and former NFL safety, said before Friday night's game at AT&T Stadium that Tyson said, “To these kids, I'm nothing, but tonight they'll see that I'm very special.'' ” he mentioned.
“I think it made me sad, but I think it also made him happy in a way,” Clark said. “…He's just giving this opportunity for Jake Paul and Most Valuable Productions to say to him, 'Hey, look what these people think of me.' That's why we watch. That's why we show up.”
Tyson was the undisputed world champion from 1987 to 1990.
He won his first 19 professional fights by knockout, including 12 first-round knockouts.
He became the youngest boxer to win the heavyweight title at the age of 21, and later became the first boxer to hold the WBA, WBC, and IBF titles simultaneously.
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Promoter Don King walks next to him. Corbis/Bettman
Tyson's last sanctioned fight was in 2005 before he lost a unanimous decision to Paul on Friday, a fight in which many felt Tyson was taken for a ride.
“For some of us, Mike Tyson represents something special,” Good Morning Football host Kyle Brandt said. I wrote to X ahead of Friday's fight. “In the '80s, I wasn't afraid of Freddie.” [Krueger] or jason [Voorhees]. Mike Tyson was scary. But it was fun. I loved it. ”
More than 77,000 people packed into AT&T Stadium on Friday.
Millions more watched Tyson through the sometimes buffering Netflix broadcast and Antonio Brown's unofficial X livestream.
He could not lay low or avoid father time.
But Friday night wasn't like that for them.
“Whether our children believe we are or not is not based on what we do,” Clark said. “What matters is how present we are, how available we are, and how we show it. [up] in everyday life. ”
