Mike Tyson vs Jake Paul took place last month.
The controversial fight was held at the AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, and was the first ever boxing event to be broadcast live on streaming service Netflix.
It say 58-year-old Tyson returning to the professional ring for the first time in nearly two decades, going up against Youtuber-turned-boxer Paul who is over 30 years younger.
Some fans hoped that the ‘Iron Mike’ of old would be present in the bout, but instead it was a difficult watch seeing him in the ring, with Paul running out a dominant unanimous decision winner after eight two-minute rounds.
There has been much discussion in the weeks following the fight, with accusations from some that the fight may have been scripted.
One man who believes that theory is former world champion Carl Froch, who told GiveMeSport that he thinks Tyson was instructed not to fight properly.
“Yeah. I do think that Mike Tyson played to a script and he was playing a role and he was saying like ‘just don’t throw the punch, don’t throw the left hook’. 100% the fight was scripted because Mike Tyson came out in round one and threw a couple of shots and had a go.
Even at 58 years old you’ve still got a 20 second burst. It’s the fight or flight mechanism. It’s the survival instinct from when we used to roam around and we were at the top of the food chain.
He never actually exploded with a combination of punches or never really went for it. At any stage in the whole fight.
It looked like he [Tyson] was almost acting, he was getting himself in good positions naturally, making shots, slipping and rolling under him, and then when he was in front, even threw half a right hand, he rolled one shot, got in front of Jake Paul.
Paul was off balance, and Tyson was poised to his right, coiled up, ready to throw the right hook, and he sort of threw half a shot. And, Paul’s head was there, Tyson’s glove was there, and he stopped.”
“He wouldn’t know what hit him. If we connected the fight would be over in the first minute of the first round.
Me and Tony [Bellew] wouldn’t be playing along with any script at all. We’d be in there to do one thing, and that would be to render Jake Paul unconscious, and that’s the reason he won’t come to the UK.”
