Mike Tyson wasn’t taking his fight with Jake Paul to add to his stats — neither the 44 knockouts nor the 50-6 record.
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This wasn’t just about the $20 million payout either, though the lump sum is likely the most he’d ever earned for one fight.half his age, he said, so his children could see what he once was — could get a glimpse of one of the greatest fighters in the history of the sport.Host Ryan Clark speaks about Tyson’s motivations ahead of Friday night’s fight on his podcast, “The Pivot.”Tyson has seven children ranging from age 13 to 34 with four different mothers.
“I think it made me sad and also made me happy for him in a way,” Clark said. “… He’s thinking about this opportunity that Jake Paul and Most Valuable Productions are pretty much just giving him to say, ‘Hey man, watch how all of these people feel about me. Because that’s why we’re going to watch. That’s why we’re going to show up.”He had become, at 21 years old, the youngest boxer to ever win a heavyweight title and, later, the first to simultaneously hold the WBA, WBC and IBF titles.
“The way that our kids believe we are somebody is not by what we do,” Clark said. “It’s about how present we are, it’s about how available we are, it’s about how we show in their lives every day.”Mike Tyson knocks down Trevor Berbick on November 22, 1986. It took Tyson two rounds to become, at age 20, the youngest heavyweight champion ever.Mike Tyson delivers a powerful blow to Trevor Berbick in the second round of a fight on Saturday night, November 22, 1986, in Las Vegas.
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