Jake Paul recently announced that he would be facing heavyweight boxing legend Mike Tyson, despite their 30-year age disparity, and now the last man to knock out Tyson has sent a warning to Paul.
Kevin McBride scored a stoppage win over ‘Iron Mike’ in 2005, when a past-his-best Tyson retired on his stool after six rounds with the Irishman, bringing the fight and his career to an end in what proved to be his final professional contest.
Since then, the once ‘Baddest Man On The Planet’ has returned in exhibitions against both Corrie Sanders and Roy Jones Jr, but his upcoming showdown with ‘The Problem Child’ seems as though it is being approached with mean intentions, and McBride told Instant Casino that Paul could be in for a tough night.
“Keep your f****** hands up and watch that he doesn’t spit out his mouthpiece and if he does, tell the ref.
“You don’t know what Mike Tyson is going to do, he’s a fearsome man. It takes balls to get in the ring with Tyson even in his fifties, whether you’re a YouTuber or a fighter, it takes big balls, Tyson is no joke.
“When you’re a fighter like Tyson, I can tell you he’s going in there to win and to take care of business. He does not want to look back and think he let Jake Paul off the hook. He’s going in there to win and Paul will need to be on his best form to survive.
“I can tell from the media that Tyson has done so far that he wants to win, it’s in his blood, the competition will never leave him.”
Paul-Tyson will go ahead on July 20th on Netflix, with rules now officially confirmed for the event.