Jake Paul On If He Felt Mike Tyson’s Power

Jake Paul won an easy points decision in the end over a near 60-year-old Mike Tyson in their Netflix super event.

Katie Taylor won on the undercard against Amanda Serrano and Mario Barrios retained his title fighting to an entertaining draw.

Speaking after the fight Paul mentioned he did not feel Tyson’s power in their fight amid other questions post-fight:

“J Andreas:
Can you talk about the opening minutes when you saw Mike cross the ring toward you? He was using his peek-a-boo style and coming forward. What were your initial thoughts? It seemed surreal that you were in the ring with Mike Tyson.

Jake Paul:
Yeah, I was just so prepared. I’d gone over that moment so many times in my head through meditation and visualization, so it didn’t phase me. I just felt at home, because I knew I was on the path to fulfilling my destiny. When you’re really close to God and on the path to your destiny, you just feel everything so much more, and you know what’s going to happen ahead of time.

J Andreas:
In Round 3, it seemed like Mike was starting to tire out a bit. You were working the jab really well. Did you start to take your foot off the gas a little because you could tell he was tiring?

Jake Paul:
Yeah, definitely. I didn’t want to push too hard. I wanted to give the fans a show, but I didn’t want to hurt him unnecessarily.

J Andreas:
Did you feel Mike’s power at all?

Jake Paul:
No, he hit me with one, and I stuck my tongue out at him, but that was just for show because the crowd was hyped. It didn’t actually hurt. I mean, no one’s punches have really hurt me. I got buzzed a little bit against Tommy Fury, but that’s about it. When Woodley hit me, it was just because I was off-balance. I was throwing a check hook and missed, leaving my chin open. He caught me, but it didn’t hurt.

Calvin Watkins (Dallas Morning News):
Do you feel like it’s time for people to accept you for who you are, rather than insisting that you need to fight ranked fighters or fight for a belt? Just accept what you bring to the sport, because clearly, you showed a lot tonight.

Jake Paul:
Yeah, I think so, but people just love to hate me. I’m an easy target. I intentionally say things to provoke people—I play the heel, I feed into it. That’s what entertainment is. At the end of the day, I started in the entertainment industry when I was 17 in Los Angeles. But I’ve been in this sport for over four years now, staying active, taking every fight I can. So if people want to see me fight more, take on bigger challenges, whatever it is, my response is: Just give it a couple more months. I’m going to accomplish more in that time than most do in their entire careers. I plan to do everything there is to be done in this sport.

To be clear, I’ve fought UFC champions, boxing legends, and boxers who are at the level someone with my experience should be fighting. I’ve knocked them out in the first round. I did that twice before fighting Mike Perry. I was fighting in front of 4,000 people last December in Orlando and knocked someone out in the first round—doing what traditional boxers do. Now, I’m here putting on the biggest show boxing has seen in 40-plus years.

There was a fighter who tried to crash our press conference on Thursday, a former fighter, and it was ridiculous. That guy fought someone who was 9-21 in their 12th fight. Meanwhile, this young man with just four years in the sport, three of those with MVP, just fought the baddest man on the planet in front of 72,000 people on Netflix. He stepped up to the challenge and handled it.

So, when it comes to what’s next, Jake is going to do everything he needs to do to become a world champion, but in the meantime, he may do crossover things, or other smaller projects, because that’s part of his journey.

Reporter:
Hey, congrats on the win! And congrats to both of you on a great night. The crowd got a little restless toward the middle of the fight, and we started hearing some negative reactions on social media. What’s your reaction to that?

Jake Paul:
Thanks to everyone who tuned in and came out. I tried to give the best fight I could, but when someone is just surviving in the ring, it’s hard to make it exciting. I couldn’t get him to engage, to slip shots or do anything flashy. But honestly, I don’t care about what people have to say. They’re always going to have something to complain about. If I lost, they’d be saying, “Oh, what a great fight, Mike’s a legend.” If I knocked out Mike Tyson, they’d say it was rigged. The fight went eight rounds? “Oh, Mike wasn’t trying.” It’s just the way it goes.

But it was an unbelievable display—between a 58-year-old legend and a 27-year-old relatively young boxer. And I outboxed Mike Tyson, like I said I would. Every round, I outboxed him.

Ellie (Press):
Jeremy, are you out of retirement? I haven’t seen you in years!

Jake Paul:
Bro, I miss you, Ellie! But first off, congrats on the event—it was one of the best I’ve ever been to.

So, you called out Canelo in the ring, and now Gervonta Davis just posted that he’d beat the brakes off you if you two fought. What are your thoughts on that?

Jake Paul:
Yeah, I’m down. Let’s run it. I’d be super down. But let’s be clear, Gervonta needs me.

Ellie (Press):
Is there a height limit in boxing?

Jake Paul:
What about you and Conor McGregor? Are you interested in that fight?

Jake Paul:
He’ll never do that fight. He knows better. One, he’s under contract; he’s not his own boss. Two, he won’t do it. He knows what’s up. People might say, “Oh, Conor McGregor is scared of Jake Paul and will never box him,” but it’s the truth. Look at him, going toe-to-toe with Nate Diaz. For me, that’s like a Monday sparring session. I beat Nate Diaz’s ass easily. Conor doesn’t want any of this smoke, and it won’t ever happen.

We believe Canelo would do a cruiserweight fight, but there’s no way Conor is stepping into a cruiserweight fight.”

That is crazy that he thinks he could fight Canelo Alvarez in the first place, wow.

First off, that is not going to happen and if it did it would be over within sixty seconds.

The only way that happens if Netflix and Paul come up with a large amount of money like $150 million for Alvarez to take such a fight.