By now you may have seen the sweaty videos of former world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson, 57, preparing for his July 20 fight with YouTuber-turned-pro boxer Jake Paul. The bout – which will be streamed on Netflix from AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas – will feature the champion taking on the 27-year-old Paul in Iron Mike's first official fight in nearly two decades.
And now we have a snippet of Paul's training regime, which seems to easily include knocking out defenseless non-boxers. In a clip uploaded on Thursday (April 4), Paul places MAGA rapper Lil Pump right in the middle of a boxing ring. After Paul asks if he's ready, Pump, with his gloved hands in the air, takes the shot and immediately crumples to the ground in agony after Paul unleashes a single left hook to the unguarded midsection of MC “Big MAGA Steppin “.
“Ohhhhhh!” a shirtless Pump screams in agony as he crawls around the mat clutching his midsection, his face red from screaming. With a crew of videographers swarming around the recumbent Pump to capture the moment of baiting for viral posterity – mission accomplished – Paul smiles and says: “I told you not to.”
The camera-only stunt was clearly meant to help hype the fight – as Paul was only wearing one glove – and Pump appeared to seriously, and immediately, regret agreeing to take the hard hit. “Jake Paul is officially 10-1 [face sweating emoji],” Pump wrote in the video. “I'm not gonna lie, that liver shot made me feel like I was dying [crying laughing emoji].”
While Tyson has been hitting the gym hard, in recent weeks Paul has appeared to be easing his way into his final fight, posting a video on March 26. party and champagne clinking with the classic trash-talking caption, “Day 1 of sending Mike Tyson back on his podcast forever.” By the next day, however, he posted an update from his 6,000-foot training camp in Colorado Springs, where he said he was training hard with Olympians, followed by another in which he he mocked openly Tyson, saying, “Mikey, Mikey, your hands can't hit what your eyes can't see.”
Last month, Tool's Maynard James Keenan posted photos of Tyson, who trains at the rocker's Cottonwood, AZ Verde Valley BJJ martial arts school. The legendarily tough boxer with a career record of 50-6 (including 44 knockouts), has posted a sweaty video of himself intense workouts ahead of his first fight since his controversial draw against former champion Roy Jones Jr. in November 202 in an exhibition match. It has been 21 years since Tyson's last win and both men are expected to take home big paydays for the headline showdown.
Since the improbable axis of from Bizaardvark and prank video on YouTube, Paul has fought a number of MMA fighters, ex-pro boxers and basketball players, building his record to date to 9-1 (6 by KO), with his one loss coming at the hands of of the only active boxer he has faced to date, Tommy Fury, in Feb. 2023.
Watch the one-punch knockout video below.
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