Mike Tyson vs. Jake Paul live updates, results and analysis

Mike Tyson takes on Jake Paul in an eight-round heavyweight match at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, on Friday evening (Netflix, 8 p.m. ET). The combat, sanctioned by the Texas Division of Licensing and Regulation, might be contested at 2-minute rounds and each fighter will put on 14-ounce gloves as an alternative of the common 10-ounce gloves for heavyweight fights.

Tyson, 58, and Paul, 27, the YouTuber-turned-boxer, had been scheduled to fulfill on July 20, however the combat was postponed after Tyson obtained medical consideration throughout a flight from Miami to Los Angeles in Could for an ulcer flareup.

Tyson (50-6, 44 KOs) grew to become the youngest heavyweight champion at age 20 in 1986 and a yr later he had unified all three main belts to change into undisputed champion. He made six defenses of the three belts till dropping in a historic upset to James “Buster” Douglas by Tenth-round KO in February 1990.

Paul (10-1, 7 KOs) began his boxing profession in 2020 with six consecutive victories combating principally towards former MMA fighters. Paul’s solely loss got here towards Tommy Fury in February 2023, however he has received three straight fights since.

On the co-main occasion, undisputed junior welterweight champion, and ESPN’s No. 2 pound-for-pound fighter, Katie Taylor, takes on seven-division champion and No. 3-ranked Amanda Serrano in a rematch of their memorable combat at New York’s Madison Sq. Backyard in April 2022.

Taylor (23-1, 6 KOs) defeated Serrano (47-2-1, 31 KOs) by cut up determination with scorecards of 96-93, 97-93 and 94-96. It was the primary time a girls’s unification title combat headlined an occasion at a sold-out Backyard. What was constructed as the largest combat in girls’s boxing historical past, lived as much as the expectations. The all-action bout was ESPN’s 2022 girls’s combat of the yr.

Keep right here for stay updates, combat outcomes and round-by-round evaluation.