Jake Paul Mike Tyson Fake Fight

Apparently Jake Paul and Mike Tyson weren’t ‘legally allowed’ to ‘go hard at each other’ in Friday night’s main event?

If you stayed up to watch the Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson fight last Friday, you’re probably wondering if the main event was nothing more than a high school theater production and rightfully so. The fight was an absolute snoozer from start to finish, with Paul taking home the unanimous decision victory in the end.

Leading up to the fight, it was pretty obvious that this whole thing was a big money grab — as is the case with almost every fight Jake Paul takes part in. But with the Mike Tyson slap the night before at weigh-ins and the electric fights that happened before the main event, it felt like maybe this thing would actually be exciting.

It was everything but that.

Tyson could barely move as Paul just danced around and threw some jabs here and there. It was evident from the start that this thing was going to suck. After the fight, Jake Paul inadvertently admitted the whole thing was a cash grab, telling reporters he took it easy on Tyson and that he, “Didn’t want to hurt someone who didn’t need to be hurt.”

Jake Paul: “Didn’t want to hurt someone who didn’t need to be hurt.”

“I wanted to give the fans a show, but I didn’t want to hurt someone who didn’t need to be hurt.”

We’ll start with those comments from Jake Paul. This was a sanctioned boxing match, meaning it affects both Paul and Tyson’s professional record. What do you mean you didn’t want to hurt someone?

That’s why people tune in for boxing fights — to see someone get hurt. By the end of the fights leading up to the main event, both boxers were in each match were beaten down. That’s what the people wanted to see.

If you didn’t want to hurt the guy, you shouldn’t have organized this boxing event. But money talks, and I’m sure both parties got a hefty payday by the end of it.

Honestly, I would’ve done the same thing if I could. Make millions upon millions of dollars to dance around a ring and commit elder abuse? Where do I sign?

Everyone had a feeling this was going to be a shit show, and it certainly didn’t disappoint. Even on Monday morning, people are still talking about all over social media and there are new details coming out about the main event between Paul and Tyson, basically all of which saying that neither fighter was allowed to ‘go at each other hard’ during the match because it would have jeopardized a hefty payday if the fight went on through each round.

So obviously, Mr. DJ Whoo Kid isn’t really saying anything shocking. When he said Jake Paul told him the fight with Mike Tyson wasn’t “real,” it kind of clicked. Because, honestly, what the hell did we all watch Saturday night?

It was less of a fight and more of an awkward high school theater production—if that theater production also featured one guy who could kill you with a jab and another who has the stamina of a dying Roomba.

It didn’t help that the fight right before the main event featuring Amanda Serrano and Katie Taylor was a literally bloodbath. That was an actual fight.

Amanda Serrano and her opponent went at it like warriors. Serrano’s eye was basically falling out of her head, and she just kept coming, swinging like a pitbull on a mission.

It was gritty, raw, and exactly what you want to see in the ring. Those two ladies were beating the absolute shit out of each other before we had to shift focus to watch Mike Tyson in the center of the ring while Jake Paul walked in circles around him.

Tyson looked like a shadow of his old self, but every so often, you caught a glimpse of the monster who ruled the boxing world. When the ref gave his instructions, Tyson had that same dead-eyed look that used to terrify opponents back in the day.

He even threw a jab early in the fight that sent Jake Paul stumbling like he just found out shots of tequila were $3. Tyson could’ve ended it right there if this were for real.

But, as Whoo Kid pointed out, Tyson wasn’t allowed to go full savage mode—and honestly, that might’ve been for the best. I’m not sure how Tyson goes from sparring like an absolute madman to what we witnessed in the ring on Friday night unless something was holding him back?

Paul’s “strategy” seemed to bank on the fact that Tyson’s body is completely shot. The man has a destroyed back, a bum knee, and was recently so close to death from an ulcer that doctors were basically writing his eulogy.

If Tyson had gone all-in, there’s a chance Jake’s raw power would’ve done some serious damage to a man who can barely move anymore. So instead of a real fight, we got… whatever the hell that was.

It’s hard not to feel gross about the whole setup. Jake Paul made a quick buck while tarnishing Tyson’s legacy in the process. Tyson finally got paid what he deserved (seriously, rot in hell, Don King), but was it worth the cost?

Watching the “fight” felt like watching a shell of a legend being paraded around for cash. And Netflix? Oh, Netflix fumbled the whole thing so badly that the buffering issues alone made me want my $8.99 back.

Why the hell was Rosie Perez—yes, that Rosie Perez—on screen all night? Was Netflix pulling names out of a hat? And how does the platform that basically invented streaming manage to screw it up so badly?

Amazon Prime pulls bigger numbers every Thursday Night Football and doesn’t have half the tech issues we saw. Let’s all just hope that Netflix NFL games on Christmas Day don’t suffer the same fate as this fight.

In the end, this whole Jake Paul-Mike Tyson debacle was a reminder of why boxing purists can’t stand these circus fights. Tyson deserved better. Fans deserved better. And Netflix? They definitely deserve all of the criticism.

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