The Mike Tyson-Jake Paul fight is scheduled for July 20 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Tex.,
Former undisputed heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson, above, will fight Jake Paul in an officially sanctioned bout July 20. The boxing match between Mike Tyson and Jake Paul scheduled for July 20 will be officially sanctioned by the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulations, Most Valuable Promotions confirmed Monday afternoon.
The heavyweight bout will take place at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Tex., and be contested over eight rounds of two minutes each. The fighters will wear 14-ounce gloves, as opposed to 8 or 10 ounces typical in professional matches. In the co-feature, unified featherweight champion Amanda Serrano faces super lightweight champion Katie Taylor in a rematch of the first women’s main event at Madison Square Garden.“Mike Tyson and Jake Paul signed on to fight each other with the desire to do so in a sanctioned professional fight that would have a definitive outcome,” Most Valuable Promotions co-founder Nakisa Bidarian said in a statement.
Tyson last fought in an official boxing match in 2005 at Capital One Arena, then known as MCI Center, in the District, failing to answer the bell in the seventh round against Kevin McBride.Paul, 27, gained fame on YouTube before becoming a professional boxer in 2020. Two years later Paul, a co-founder of Most Valuable Promotions, landed on Forbes’s list of highest paid athletes for three boxing matches with estimated earnings of $38 million.
Paul also has 27 million followers on Instagram and 4.6 million followers on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.
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