the essentials In front of the whole world, Mike Tyson will make his return to the ring on the night of Friday to Saturday to fight Jake Paul, a YouTube video creator with 20 million subscribers. Beyond the spectacle aspect, this fight could have repercussions on the health of “Iron Mike”.
He’s back. Nearly 20 years after his last professional fight, Mike Tyson is preparing to put on the gloves again next night to challenge video creator Jake Paul for a fight followed around the world. Broadcast on the Netflix platform, and organized at the AT & T Stadium in Dallas (Texas), this confrontation nevertheless arouses many critics, but also fears about the outcome of the fight while the weight of 58 years of ” Iron Mike” could be a real liability.
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Especially since this fight has already been postponed twice: the first time in 2022 after Mike Tyson was seen in a wheelchair. Suffering from chronic sciatica, the former world boxing champion was unable to fight. “I have sciatica from time to time, it flares up. When it flares up, I can’t even talk,” he told American television at the time. “When I look in the mirror, I see these little spots on my face, I say: ‘Wow. That means my expiration date is approaching, very soon,’ he had said a few months earlier, which was not reassuring. nothing about these fans.
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But Tyson gradually regained his health. And has not lost the objective of challenging the Youtuber Jake Paul. But now, almost two months before July 20, the new date of the Mike Tyson-Jake Paul fight, the New York native is suffering from an ulcer and must once again postpone the deadline. “We fully support Mike in his decision to take the time necessary to allow him to perform at the level he hopes for,” the organizers announced at the time.
Neurological risks?
In the columns of CNN, Dr Nitin K Sethi, specialist in neurology, indicates that Tyson could present a higher risk of neurological damage. “What worries me is that this is a fighter who has had many years of professional boxing under his belt. This is worrying regarding chronic neurological lesions” he confided in particular . Also, in addition to his past as a boxer, Mike Tyson has for a long time been a heavy user of alcohol and drugs.
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Addictions to which he said quit in 2016 after sinking once the gloves were taken off. Even weighed almost 170 kilos at one time. “I was so full of drugs and bad cocaine that I could barely breathe. My blood pressure was so high that I was going to die,” Tyson said of this period. This Friday morning, a few hours before the fight, Mike Tyson weighed 103.4 kg on the scale, or 400 grams more than his opponent. A healthy weight, really?
