It’s been nearly two months since Mike Tyson‘s fight with Jake Paul.
The controversial battle took place in November, and saw 58-year-old Tyson returning to the ring for the first time in nearly two decades.
Standing in his way was Youtuber-turned-boxer Paul, with the fight being pushed back from its original date of July after ‘Iron Mike’ suffered an ulcer flare-up.
Heading into the bout, clips of Tyson on social media appeared to show the former world heavyweight champion back to his ferocious best, but the fight itself was anything like that.
Tyson struggled to cope with his much younger opponent, looking slow and lethargic, as Paul claimed a unanimous decision victory after eight two-minute rounds.
Although it may not have been an entertaining spectacle, it was a huge commercial success, generating a gate of over 18 million dollars, whilst also having a peak of 65 million concurrent streams on Netflix.
It initially led to Tyson revealing on social media that he was grateful for the event, feeling that he still won due to the trouble he went through in the build-up.
Now that the dust has settled, he has seemingly made a U-turn on those feelings, telling Fox Sports Radio that he has now been struggling to cope with the loss and is ‘kind of depressed.’
“That fight was such a big ascent. We were so up and high, we were so excited. The fight’s over, boom. Wow, I’m kind of depressed a little bit. We got to get back [into] our living situation, back to living. [I was] training for it [for] nine months.”
Tyson is set to stay retired following the fight with Paul, but ‘The Problem Child’ has already reveals who he deems to be at the front of the queue to be his next opponent.
