Mike Tyson slaps Jake Paul across face during weigh
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The drama continues, as Mike Tyson hauled off and smacked Jake Paul across the face during weigh-ins ahead of .
Video shows the two men going toe-to-toe at the official weigh-in ceremony - literally. They were so close that Paul stepped on Tyson's foot.
Apparently, Tyson thinks it was intentional and had a few choice words for his opponent.
"He stepped on my toe because he id a f**king a**hole," Tyson said, per The New York Post. "I think it may have happened on purpose. I was in a lot of pain. I had to reciprocate."The ongoing theatrics between the two fighters intensified after the slap, with Paul going off on Tyson, saying Tyson regret the slpa once they face-off in the ring. He shared footage of the slap on Instagram and addressed Tyson in the caption of the post. is this my Chris Rock moment?" Paul wrote, also changing his default photo to an image of Rock, who Will Smith infamously slapped across the face onstage after Rock made a joke about Smith's wife.
Paul's mother said she's going to "kill" Tyson for slapping her son. She also called tyson a "f-cking little bitch."
The fight, which was originally supposed to go down July 20, was rescheduled to Nov. 15 after , as he had a medical episode on a plane and needed time to recover from a stomach ulcer.
The bout between the YouTuber-turned-boxer Paul, and Tyson, 58-year-old former heavyweight champion, from AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, will stream globally and be available to Netflix's 280 million subscribers at no additional cost. Netflix will broadcast the bout in English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, French and German.
"We believe the Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson fight could be the most watched boxing match ever given ease of access and NFLX's (Netflix's) large global subscriber base, and it should attract Ad Tier subs, viewers, and dollars," JP Morgan Chase analyst Doug Anmuth said in his analyst note, according to CNBC Pro. "Netflix is increasingly focused on sports entertainment, events, and shoulder content, and we expect a bigger push into live sports over time, particularly as negotiating leverage shifts in NFLX's direction."