Mike Tyson Says He’s ‘Afraid to Loss of life’ About Jake Paul Fight: ‘That’s My Persona’

Legendary boxer Mike Tyson is faded to the immense stage, but that does no longer point out he is resistant to force.

Earlier than his scheduled match against Jake Paul this summer, Tyson revealed that despite being the “Baddest Man on the Planet,” he aloof gets butterflies to at the second.

“I in actual fact have a unfamiliar persona—I make no longer assume or no longer it’s unfamiliar although. No topic I am apprehensive to make, I make it. That’s how it’s,” Tyson stated during an appearance on Hannity on Tuesday evening. “I turn out to be as soon as terrified of the Roy [Jones Jr.] war [in 2020]. I turn out to be as soon as 100 kilos chubby, I turn out to be as soon as nevertheless faded, 54, 53, and I stated ‘Let’s make it.’ Something I am terrified of, I confront it. That’s my persona. Correct now, I am haunted to loss of life.”

Now 57, Tyson is gearing as a lot as face a boxer 30 years his junior. The 27-year-faded Paul has a 9-1 document in 10 knowledgeable fights and is coming off attend-to-attend first-spherical knockout victories.

“I saw a YouTube of him at 16 doing unfamiliar dances. That’s no longer the man I am gonna be combating,” Tyson stated of Paul. “This man is gonna advance, he is gonna strive and wretchedness me, which I am accustomed to, and he is gonna be greatly unsuitable.”

Tyson and Paul are situation to face every other on July 20 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, and the bout will be streamed stay on Netflix. It must be Tyson’s first time attend in the ring since his 2020 exhibition against Jones, but he believes his nerves will gasoline him in his return.

“I always believed that adversity and anxiety fair about catapulted me into success,” he stated. “If I didn’t have these emotions, I’d no longer skedaddle into this war. I in actual fact will deserve to have these emotions to war. Without them, I’d by no manner skedaddle in the ring.”