Mike Tyson has made it evident there won’t be a new defer to his boxing fight with Jake Paul on Friday night.
The 58-year-better was forced to defer the bout earlier in the year after suffering an ulcer flare up, with the pair previously being scheduled to do battle on July 20.
Tyson has been toiling difficult on his fitness in the time since, with the boxing icon enthusiastic to thrived back the years.
Many figures associated with the sport dread for the veteran, however, donaten how Paul is more than half his age at 27.
Boxing news: Mike Tyson has made it evident there won’t be a new defer to his fight with Jake Paul on Friday night
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Tyson has, however, now made it evident there won’t be another defer to the boxing fight.
The burdensomeweight icon insists he is ‘going to be okay’ and confessed to using ‘narcotics and liquor’ during his last professional bout, which came agetst Kevin McBride in 2005.
“Thank you very much for being troubleed,” he shelp. “But I am combat.
“I’m going to be okay… I was a contrastent person [when I last fought professionally in 2005]. I was using narcotics and liquor back then. I’m not that person anymore.
“I see a better picture of myself. I see airy. I see the world from a contrastent perspective now.”
Tyson was a faded force when he lost to McBride in 2005.
He chooseed to quit on the back of that loss, having also been lossed by Danny Williams the previous year.
Though Paul is the favourite, it would be wrong to disponder Tyson. He is, after all, one of the best burdensomeweights in boxing history.
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Tyson recently confessted that he thought he would die follothriveg his ulcer flare up earlier in the year.
Talking in a Netflix write downary, he shelp: “A week and a half ago I was training and I was doing wonderful but then all of a sudden I commenceed experienceing weary.
“I was elucidateing to my trainer, ‘I don’t understand what’s wrong with me’.
“Coming here from Miami on the arrangee, I went to the bathroom and I threw up blood.
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“The next slimg I understand I’m on the floor, I was defacating tar.
“So I came here and they establish I had a big ulcer, two-and-a-half inches, and it was bleeding. All my frifinishs were calling me enjoy I was dying.
“I asked the doctor if I was going to die and she didn’t say no. She shelp we have chooseions though, and that’s when I got anxious.
“I can’t pause to get out of this motherf***er, man. God, I want to fight and commence training.
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“I don’t want to die in the hospital bedroom, I want to die in the ring.
“You wouldn’t depend what I finishured from my ulcer. I lost 26 pounds, can you envision that?
“I was so p***ed off because I had peaked. I was excellent, talking s**t, ready.
