Reports now suggest that he might be gearing up for another fight

Mike Tyson is reportedly considering a comeback to the ring for a rematch with his old rival, Evander Holyfield. Tyson’s retirement following a highly publicized defeat to Jake Paul in a Netflix event seemed to signal the end of his boxing career, but reports now suggest that he might be gearing up for another fight.

The two first clashed in the 1990s, with their rivalry becoming infamous after Tyson bit off part of Holyfield’s ear during their 1997 rematch.

The latest claim comes from actor and martial arts expert Paulo Tocha, who has insight into Tyson’s possible plans. Tocha, best known for his role in Bloodsport alongside Jean-Claude Van Damme, shared his thoughts on Tyson‘s return to the ring. According to Tocha, Tyson has hinted at facing Holyfield again, despite having been retired for a period.

Tyson’s potential comeback

Paulo Tocha, who has connections to Tyson’s inner circle, revealed that the Brooklyn-born boxer has been contemplating a return to the sport.

“At the end [of the Paul fight], he kind of let us know there’s another one coming,” Tocha explained. “Most probably it’s going to be Evander after all. He and Evander – after what happened to his ear and all that. So most probably it’ll be something like that.”

Despite Tyson‘s lackluster performance against Jake Paul, which many fans criticized, Tocha believes the match served as a critical warm-up for the former champion

“I thought it was a good show, a warm-up for Tyson,” Tocha stated. “He got to get some rust off of the ring, got to feel himself again, caught himself back again on top.”

For Tyson, who has made a successful transition into the world of business, including a cannabis empire, boxing is more than just about money – it’s also about proving himself once more. Tocha understands that many fans might expect too much from Tyson, especially given his age.

However, he defended the boxer’s legacy and skills, acknowledging that Tyson’s performance at his age could never match the prime days of his youth.

“But you’ve got to understand the fighter’s game, and at that age, you’re not supposed to be in the ring, even if you’re spectacular. It’s just not so good for the brain,” he noted.

I feel with Tyson, he is exactly in that spot because the audience that’s watching him now doesn’t understand boxing from the old days.

They’ve got no clue. He’s just a new name, a newcomer, and he’s part of a family tradition of fighters who watched Tyson throughout his career. It doesn’t matter when or if it’s raining or snowing or sunshine. It’s Tyson that’s fighting. It’s the name. I love him because of that.”

Moses Itauma’s chances of taking Mike Tyson’s record as boxing’s youngest ever heavyweight world champion appear to be over.

Itauma is considered one of the brightest young prospects in the blue-riband division, with his ferocious punching power and unique skills attracting the attention of the boxing world.

When setting out as a professional, he faced huge comparisons to heavyweight legend and former undisputed champion Tyson, for his front-thinking style.

Before his professional debut in January 2023 aged 19, Itauma had vowed to fight in pursuit of beating Tyson’s record as the youngest world heavyweight champion in the sport’s history.

‘Iron Mike’ captured the feat with a stunning win over Trevor Berbick in 1986, winning the WBC belt at the age of 20 years and four months old.

Itauma recently turned 20 on December 28, giving him until the end of April to break Tyson’s record and get his hands on a world title belt.

But it is now highly unlikely given his potential WBO interim title clash with Justis Huni will now be delayed until later in 2025.

During an interview with talkSPORT, Itauma’s promoter Francis Warren discussed the route to the pinnacle of the division, with his next outing plotted for April.

He said: “Yeah there is moving parts, you know what business is like, it could change tomorrow.

Teddy Atlas has discussed how Mike Tyson would have fared in a number of fantasy fights.

‘Iron Mike’ is widely regarded as one of the greatest heavyweights of all time, having been the division’s youngest world champion at the age of just 20, and also holding undisputed honours in the weight class from 1987 to 1990.

It has led to debates over how Tyson would have performed against some of the other greats from different eras, with boxing fans regularly wondering how he’d have done against the likes of Muhammad Ali, George Foreman and Joe Frazier.

Respected analyst and former Tyson coach Atlas has thrown Sonny Liston into the mix, the former world heavyweight champion who twice knocked out Floyd Patterson inside the very first round.

Liston also had two infamous fights against Ali, losing them both, before he sadly died at the age of just 40 in 1970, with his final record standing at 50 wins and 4 defeats, 39 of those wins by knockout.

Atlas was certain of who would have won between ‘Iron Mike’ and Liston whilst speaking on The Fight Podcast, insisting that it would have been a dominant victory for Liston.

“Tyson would be at the end of that jab like a coyote on a locomotive. flat, pulverised. That jab would have hit him and sent a message, a physical and a mental message, you’re in the wrong place at the wrong time, get the hell out.

“Liston was the naturally bigger guy and a tremendous body puncher. He’d have gone to the body with that power. Everything he threw was hard. That body attack from Liston would have taken away and eliminated the head movement and elusive ability from Tyson.

“Tyson might have needed a diaper to get in the ring with Liston. He would have intimidated Tyson. It would have been his worse nightmare. Tyson gets knocked out in the fight.”

Despite picking Liston to win, Atlas remains a fan of ‘Iron’ Mike. That hasn’t stopped him recently naming the young fighter who he believes has what it takes to break his record and become the youngest world heavyweight champion in history.

A few months removed from the highly controversial boxing fight between Jake Paul and Mike Tyson, and it is still big talk in the combat sports world.

This past November, Jake Paul caused even more controversy in the boxing world when he took on 58-year-old Mike Tyson in a professional boxing bout.

‘The Problem Child’ went on to pick up a unanimous decision win after a relatively passive fight, which subsequently went on to break modern viewership records after being live-streamed on Netflix.

UFC legend Don Frye ‘disgusted’ by Jake Paul’s fight against Mike Tyson

Despite the fact that we are now a few months removed from the controversial contest, UFC legend, Don Frye, has admitted that it made him want to ‘vomit’.

The fight was slammed by several professionals who thought it was a bad idea for Paul to fight someone 31 years his elder, especially considering ‘Iron Mike’s’ health concerns over the past few years.

It didn’t help the controversy when Tyson came out after the fight and admitted that in the lead-up to it, he feared for his life and ‘almost died’ following his ulcer flare-up which resulted in several blood transfusions.

“I tell you what buddy, that (fight) made me want to vomit,” Frye said (h/t garyhgoodridge)

“I was so disgusted with that I had to go home and put in Tommy Hearns and Sugar Ray Robinson and Sugar Ray Leonard and Jake Lamotta, Rocky Marciano I had to watch some real fighters because if I didn’t I’d never watch another boxing match again. That was a fraud,” he continued.

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Mike Tyson returned to the boxing ring after 19 years when the 58-year-old faced Jake Paul in Texas in November. However, Tyson lost the match in a one-sided contest.

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Money was being gambled at historic levels when Jake Paul fought Mike Tyson in what many considered a sham of a fight that featured a 58-year-old decades past his prime and a 27-year-old YouTuber with questionable motives.

Could this all be setting up for a precedent-defining lawsuit?

One sports attorney believes several factors could lead to legal action.

“It wouldn’t shock me one bit to see a lawsuit filed on this fight,” Dan Lust, a Sports Attorney at Moritt Hock & Hamrott and Law Professor at New York Law School, told The Post.

Paul fought Tyson to a snoozer of an eight-round decision win, where the former heavyweight champ appeared to be struggling to stand as many criticized Paul for carrying him to the finish.

It appeared Paul could’ve won by knockout at his convenience, as Tyson looked wobbly in the later rounds.

Paul seemingly admitted as much after the fight, telling reporters he “didn’t want to hurt someone that didn’t need to be hurt.”

Another complicating factor is that boxers are not paid if the fight doesn’t happen.

As Tyson dealt with a litany of medical issues in the lead-up to the fight, one could argue that the fight was put on so the two could grab their cash and get out unscathed.

When asked whether he took his foot off the peddle, Paul responded, “Yeah, definitely,” and that he “wanted to give the fan’s a show.”

He was asked a follow-up question about whether he carried Tyson.

Paul responded, “Yeah a little bit. There was a point where I was like ‘OK, he’s not really engaging back.’ And so I don’t know if he is tired or hurt or whatever, and I could just tell that his age was showing a little bit and I just have so much respect for him and that violence, war thing between us … kind of went away as the rounds went on.”

The only problem with that is the fight received four times the betting interest than any other boxing match, with the fight’s most likely outcome in terms of betting odds being Paul to win by knockout (+125).

“I watched the fight very closely, lines were skewing toward knockouts … because logically it would point toward ‘Tyson is too old to take a big punch’ or ‘Jake hasn’t felt someone with Tyson’s power,’” Lust said.

Lust noted that Paul’s comments about not wanting to hurt Tyson would have been fine had he couched them to just the eighth round, since the final moments wouldn’t have put the entire fight in jeopardy.

Since he did not, Lust said that a can of worms was opened up, fueling what was already poor optics through the entire bout.

Before “Iron” Mike Tyson bared his teeth for Friday’s boxing match against Jake “El Gallo” Paul, he bared … a different part of himself, live for everyone on Netflix to see.

Between Netflix’s issues handling the vast number of people trying to watch, the fight itself not living up to expectations, and Tyson’s backside, there were likely millions of people disgusted by what they endured Friday night. However, the best way to cope with the trauma of such a sight is through comedy, and the internet has not disappointed in their reactions to Tyson’s cheeks.

Almost two decades on from their infamous showdown in Washington DC, Kevin McBride is still very much feeling the power of Mike Tyson.

In June of 2005, the little-known Irishman shocked the world and send ‘Iron Mike’ into retirement, not just from the fight but from boxing as a whole. It would take the heavyweight icon until this year, at the age of 58, to come back for a full professional bout, only taking two exhibitions in the meantime.

But even though McBride won on the night, he says that the punches he felt that night have stuck with him. Now working as a paver, he has warned Jake Paul that there are still times that he feels the power of Tyson, almost 20 years since they stepped in the ring.

Kevin McBride made Mike Tyson quit boxing, until now

The date was June 11 2005 when Kevin McBride earned the biggest win of his life against one of the greatest of all time; Mike Tyson. While the story has been rewritten to indicate that ‘Iron Mike’ was far past his best, he still packed a serious punch, which had the Monaghan native in trouble throughout.

“It was like a Cinderella story for me,” he told Bloody Elbow in an exclusive chat. “Everybody said there was no way I had a chance to beat Mike Tyson because with his career and what he’s achieved, but I had a different plan in my mind.

I trained very hard for eight weeks and I even had a hypnotist work with me so that every time he would hit me I’d be smiling. I was smiling a lot! People don’t realize even when I was fighting him people ask ‘what was going through your head?’ I say ‘What the hell did I get myself into?’

“He ain’t no joke and I would have fought him for free. I was offered small money, maybe $150,000, but I couldn’t care less about that, I just wanted to get in the ring with him, it wasn’t about money at all for me when it came to Mike Tyson.”

And not only did McBride get in the ring with Tyson, but he managed to make him quit on his stool after round six. He floored the legend with Muhammad Ali watching at ringside, and made one of the world’s toughest men decide that he could no longer fight.

Kevin McBride still feels the power of Mike Tyson

However, he has a word of warning for Jake Paul as he prepares to face Tyson on Friday night. The bout has proved controversial over the 31-year age gap between the competitors, but the legendary heavyweight still packs one of the biggest punches on the planet.

The 58-year-old heavyweight is set to head to the ring for the first time since 2020 later this month. However, while his bout with Roy Jones Jr. four years ago was an exhibition, his next fight will be a professional one. On November 15th, live on Netflix, Mike Tyson will clash with Jake Paul.

The boxing match will be the former champion’s first professional contest in nearly two decades. His last bout took place in June 2005, suffering a stunning upset loss to journeyman Kevin McBride. Now at 58 years old, Mike Tyson is preparing for one more fight against ‘The Problem Child’.

In the build to the contest, Jake Paul has repeatedly mocked the heavyweight’s age. Given the 31-year age gap between the two, it doesn’t come as a huge surprise. However, Mike Tyson is in arguably the best shape of his entire career. Taking to Instagram earlier today, the heavyweight posted a photo of his physique.

Boxing legend Mike Tyson reveals shredded physique ahead of Jake Paul fight

Just based on the photo, it’s clear Mike Tyson is taking preparation seriously. Based on a recent interview he gave to TalkSport, ‘Iron Mike’ is getting ready for a long night. In the interview, Tyson stated that he expects to have to hunt down Jake Paul on November 15th. However, he doesn’t believe that will be a big issue.

“I see him running around and I have to try and catch him and slaughter him. Mike Tyson stated in the interview discussing his return to the boxing ring against Jake Paul. He’s a good little fighter but he’s only had ten fights which is considered as an amateur in our field.”

He continued, “I have to catch him and slaughter him. No [I don’t fear for him] because he stepped into the ring. If my mother steps into the ring, she has a problem with me. Don’t go in the ring if you don’t want that problem… Jake believes his own lies sometimes. When you’re in a big fight, you have to become delusional and believe you’re somebody that you’re actually not. He’s in a lot of trouble.”

What do you make of this boxing news? Are you excited for Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson?