The boxing environment is eager for the fight between Mike Tyson, the legendary former heavyweight champion, and Jake Paul, the controversial YouTuber who became a boxer. They will meet at the Dallas Cowboys’ AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, on July 20 in a fight that generated enormous expectations.
Iron Mike is a living legend of boxing with 58 career fights and 50 victories. At the time of the fight he will be 58 years old. He returned to the ring in December 2020 and will face a 27-year-old rival with only 10 fights under his belt.
Tyson appears to be in great physical shape and in this regard he has just revealed the drastic change he made to his diet ahead of the fight with Jake Paul. The two-time world heavyweight champion said that he is eating “raw meat” before his next confrontation with the YouTuber. Iron Mike, who has not competed officially since he lost to Kevin McBride in 2005, will face Paul in a fight scheduled for eight rounds of two minutes each.
After that retirement almost two decades ago, his diet got out of control. A “routine” based on meat, alcohol and drugs made the former undisputed heavyweight champion gain 27 kilos. Although after five years of binge eating, he adopted a vegan diet to help him lose weight and alleviate some of his health problems.
Before his fight with Paul, he confessed that he is abandoning tofu for raw meat. This was said during an interview with Damon Elliott, who asked Tyson what he was eating in preparation for his next fight because his rival is 20 years younger. “Raw meat,” Iron Mike replied. Elliott asked him, “Really, Mike? Are you eating raw meat?” To which Tyson exclaimed: “I’m going to have to eat it now because my opponent is going to be raw meat.”
Although Paul is also experiencing a big change in his eating habits. The YouTuber turned boxer is gaining kilos for his heavyweight debut. He sits just above the cruiserweight limit (90 kilos or 200 pounds), but they now claim that he weighs around 104 kilos or 230 pounds, and he has no intention of stopping there. “It’s shocking for people to know how much I weigh,” Paul said on his podcast. “I think because I normally fight at 200 (pounds) and walk at 210. It’s strange for me to weigh 230,” he added.
“But since this was a bother after my last fight, I’m eating as much as possible and it turns out that my body supports this weight very well,” he said. “And I’m just growing. “I think I will get to 240 pounds (108 kilos) and I will probably cut back to be much faster,” she added. “So my muscles will be much stronger and that speed will show,” he concluded.
The fight will have connotations of a professional fight and will have two special rules. Plus, the winner “will take all,” Jake Paul said.
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