Jake Paul was slapped hard by Mike Tyson for acting like a fool during the weigh-in face-off on Thursday ahead of their eight-round fight this Friday night at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.
Paul (10-1, 7 KOs) crouched down football stance and rushed Tyson, and was greeted with a hard slap to the left side of his face. The slap left a big red mark on the left side of Jake’s face, and set him off.
Weigh-in Results
Jake Paul – 227.2lbs
Mike Tyson – 228.4lbs
Jake Wanted To Be Slapped Again
He immediately pointed to his billy goat’s gruff, inviting Tyson to hit him even harder, which suggested that he wanted more pain. Some kind of weird thing, I guess, or maybe Jake was trying to get out of the fight by suffering an injury. Hard to know with someone like that. He’s not a boxer, so you can’t get in the mind of someone like that.
The slap was well-deserved because Jake came at the former heavyweight champion with his hands bear-crawling on the ground, leaving Tyson (50-6, 44 KOs) with no choice but to slap the taste out of his mouth.
Tyson, 58, had no idea what Paul was going to do when he charged him like a little bull. It was either slap Jake or punch him, and Tyson chose the former not to put the fight in jeopardy.
I don’t what the bear crawl thing was about by Jake Paul. Was that a move to insult Tyson to mock him to say covertly that he felt he wasn’t a man? Whatever it was, Jake what was coming to him with slap. Was Jake trying to dehumanize Mike Tyson with the bear-crawl bit? If it had been me, I would have done the same thing to Paul. They would have had to pull me off of him if he came crawling to me.
“I didn’t even feel it. He’s an angry little elf,” said Jake Paul when interviewed after the slap inside the ring. “Mike Tyson, I thought that was a cute slap, but tomorrow night, you’re getting knocked out.”
Jake was spoiling to be slapped or punched by Mike. He’s just lucky that Tyson didn’t bite one of his ears off because that would spoil the diamond-encrusted ear-bob he was sporting during the final press conference.
