Legendary boxer and occasional meme machine Mike Tyson has shared some hilariously unexpected details about his recent fight with social media’s most confident problem child, Jake Paul.
ICYMI, last month the 58-year-old boxing icon stepped into the ring with 27-year-old Jake for a Netflix fight that felt more like a fever dream than an actual sporting event. Spoiler alert: Jake won after eight rounds. Yes, you read that correctly—Jake Paul beat Mike Tyson. 2024 is wild.
Now, in a chat with Fox Sports, Mike revealed that he doesn’t remember much of the fight. Like, at all.
“I kinda blacked out a little,” Mike confessed, probably echoing how most of us feel after watching a Paul brother on YouTube for too long. “I remember coming back from the first round and Jake is doing some kind of… I don’t know what he was doing,” he said, referring to Jake apparently bowing.
Bow? To Mike Tyson? Was this a boxing match or a Shakespearean performance? Jake’s doing interpretive dance in the ring while Mike’s just trying to figure out what planet he’s on.
“And that’s the last thing I remember,” Mike added, like a guy who woke up from a bachelor party in Vegas with a tiger in his hotel room.
The day after the fight, Mike’s body apparently sent him a harsh reminder that he’s not in his 20s anymore. “My chest, my stomach—everything was sore,” he shared, adding that he woke up and immediately hit his wife with the real talk: “Why did I do that?”
Honestly, Mike, we’ve all asked ourselves similar questions after a bad decision—just usually about eating too many tacos or texting an ex, not fighting Jake Paul.
But here’s the kicker: Despite all this, Iron Mike has zero regrets. “Not at all,” he said confidently, as if his aching body and the internet’s collective side-eye didn’t exist.
Mike Tyson fought Jake Paul, blacked out, woke up sore, and still thinks it was worth it. If that’s not peak 2024 energy, I don’t know what is.