Where to watch Jake Paul vs Mike Tyson? Can I watch the fight with a standard Netflix subscription or is it pay-per-view?
Jake Paul vs Mike Tyson takes place on Friday, November 15
The bout is enthralled in controversy due to the opponent’s large age gap
In a Netflix first, the streaming platform will be broadcasting the event live
Jake Paul and Mike Tyson will meet inside the ring on Friday, November 15 in one of most controversial bouts in recent history.
The unlikely duo will go pound-for-pound in an officially-sanctioned, pro fight. Which means the result of the blockbuster fight will count on both men’s professional records.
Tyson, 58, is highly regarded as one of the greatest heavyweight champions in the history, however he has not stepped inside a ring professionally in 19 years.
Whilst his opponent, YouTuber turned boxer, Jake Paul, who is 31-years younger is looking to continue rebuilding his boxing career after losing to Tommy Fury.
The unlikely yet intriguing clash is one boxing fans won’t want to miss and here is how you can watch Jake Paul vs Mike Tyson.
Whilst his opponent, YouTuber turned boxer, Jake Paul, who is 31-years younger is looking to continue rebuilding his boxing career after losing to Tommy Fury.
The unlikely yet intriguing clash is one boxing fans won’t want to miss and here is how you can watch Jake Paul vs Mike Tyson.
Where can I watch Mike Tyson vs Jake Paul?
Jake Paul vs Mike Tyson will be available to watch and stream via Netflix in both the UK and US on Friday, November 14.
Can I watch the fight using my normal subscription or is it on PPV?
The unlikely link-up between the giant entertainment streaming platform showing a live sports broadcasting event has left many fans questioning how accessing the live feed will work.
Whether or not the fight will be available to watch on your standard Netflix subscription? and the answer is yes.
The fight will be available to watch to current members as part of their standard Netflix subscription pack at no extra cost.
In the UK for non Netflix customers to sign up for an account, it will set you back £4.99 a month with adverts, or £7.99 without the ads. Or else you could purchase a standard subscription, which allows customers to watch on two devices at once, this costs £10.99-a-month.
In the US a Netflix plan is $6.99 per month with ads or $15.49 without.
The two men were originally set to face-off back in July but the fight was postponed after Tyson suffered a ‘medical emergency’ in the lead up to the bout.
The former undisputed world heavyweight champion suffered an ulcer flare-up which meant he was unable to fight back in July.
The diverse Youtuber and former heavyweight champion are expected to make their ring walks around 4am UK time (10 pm.ET and 9 pm CT in the US).
Mike Tyson was Truly Scared When A Doctor Refused to Reassure him as he was Throwing Up Blood
The incident occurred towards the end of a flight from Miami to Los Angeles when he became violently ill. He recently relived the sobering experience as part of the second episode of Netflix’s countdown series for the upcoming fight with Paul.
“Coming here [Los Angeles] from Miami on the plane, I went to the bathroom and threw up blood. The next thing I know I’m on the floor, I was defecating tar. I came here [the hospital] and they found out I had a big ulcer – two-and-a-half inches – I was bleeding. All my friends were calling me like I was dying.”
Tyson then shared the scariest part of the experience during an exchange with his doctor: “I asked the doctor if I was gonna die and she didn’t say no. She just said we had options and that’s when I got nervous.”
The legendary heavyweight continued: “I don’t want to die in the hospital bedroom, I want to die in the ring. You wouldn’t believe what I endured from my ulcer”. Forced to postpone his clash with Paul until November, Tyson was initially furious at having to start his training camp for the fight over again.
“I lost 26 pounds, can you imagine that? I was so p***ed off because I had peaked. I was good, talking s***, ready.” However, in an October interview with the Daily Mail, Tyson took responsibility for the choices that had left him in that position, stating: “I was doing too much bad food and stuff, and I got sick.” Now consuming a clean diet, ‘Iron Mike’ insists he is ready to roll back the years later this month.
The bout had originally been expected to take place under exhibition rules. However, the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation opted to sanction the bout as a full professional contest. There will be some adjustments made to account for the unique circumstances of the bout, though, with 14-oz gloves being used as opposed to the usual 10-oz and the contest consisting of eight two-minute rounds instead of the usual three-minute sessions.
Regardless of those particulars, the fight promises to be a spectacle like few before it as the world waits to see if Tyson can demonstrate that age is just a number or if ‘The Problem Child’ will prove the doubters wrong.
Mike Tyson Feared he was ‘Going to Die’ Before Cancelled Jake Paul Fight
Mike Tyson has revealed that he thought he was going to die when he suffered a mid-air medical emergency due to a stomach ulcer before his planned July bout with Jake Paul. The incident led to the postponement of that date, with the pair now set to do battle on the 15th of November at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.
One of the most legendary heavyweights of all-time, Tyson’s ferocious tenacity and intimidating demeanor embodied his fighting style. This, paired with his 88% knockout percentage, meant that very few had the courage to get in the ring with him during his prime. However, despite those days being well behind him, with his last professional fight being in 2005, ‘Iron Mike’ has kept himself in incredible shape.
Nevertheless, the announcement of his bout with YouTuber-turned professional boxer Jake Paul gained plenty of criticism as many suggested that, irrespective of his previous accomplishments in the sport, Tyson’s age would count against him. The 31-year age gap between the 27-year-old Paul and Tyson, who is 58, is the greatest gap in boxing history – and news of the veteran’s health issues over the summer did nothing to persuade those who are against the fight to change their minds.
Eddie Hearn Reveals Who Anthony Joshua Is Likely to Fight Next: “He’s Pleading For It”
Eddie Hearn and his fighter Anthony Joshua are carefully planning their next move.
It has been a rollercoaster few years for ‘AJ’, once the unified champion who was knocking all comers out but then took an upset loss to Andy Ruiz Jr in 2019.
He won his belts back in a rematch against Ruiz and, after some more straight forward wins, stepped in against Oleksandr Usyk. The Brit fell short in back to back fights to the man who went on to become undisputed champion earlier this year.
Joshua rebuilt again with knockout victories over Robert Helenius, Otto Wallin and Francis Ngannou before coming up against new IBF champion Daniel Dubois in September.
That fight ended in disaster for Joshua, who was knocked down twice before being stopped in the fifth round by the in-form Dubois.
It was thought Joshua would take an immediate rematch, but his team has since revealed he won’t be ready for Dubois’ preferred date of February 22. Speaking to iFL TV Hearn has now said he could well still take that next.
“Yeah, I think ‘AJ’ might fight Dubois next. Physically, he’s not ready to go back into camp, he had a few niggles coming out of the fight, he would have to go into a February 22nd not 100%, to be honest. And he wants to do that.
It’s very difficult but when I get on a call and you’ve got Anthony Joshua pleading to let him fight on February 22nd and you’ve got his doctor and his physio saying you can physically start camp in three or four weeks and be 100. ‘Yeah but I can’t beat him, I don’t want to those the opportunity to rematch him.’ It’s like, if we get this wrong, you’re done.”
Hearn then said the team would take the time to get Joshua completely fit mentally and physically and reiterated who he will fight next.
“There are only really those two fights that are the focus, the rematch with Daniel Dubois, or the fight with Tyson Fury win or lose against Usyk.”
Either of those fights would be huge for British boxing, and a challenge for Joshua that Fury thinks is a step too far. In the meantime, Dubois is set to defend his belt in February with an opponent yet to be announced.
Despite only recently moving up the heavyweight division, Lawrence Okolie has wasted no time in calling his new rivals out.
Now he has revealed his intentions to fight none other than Anthony Joshua.
His first fight in the heavyweight division is set to take place on the next ‘Magnificent 7’ card on Saturday December 7th.
Last week, he revealed that after this fight, he plans to fight someone ranked in the top 5, then assuming he wins that a world title shot next summer.
The man known as ‘The Sauce’ has not only moved up divisions, he has also switched promotions.
Okolie has penned a deal with Frank Warren and Queensbury, which significantly means that he is part of a blockbuster stable of heavyweights.
Speaking to Daily Star he said, “I will be bringing big performances at heavyweight.”
He spoke about his struggle cutting weight during his cruiserweight time and has suggested that now at heavyweight he will not need long to adapt to his new division.
“In my early cruiserweight days before I was draining myself, I was putting on knockout performances 9 times out of 10 but then it started to fade as we went on. From the spars I’ve had with heavyweights, I know I can do it. I want to show this explosive power. I think talking about it is one thing but it is about doing it.”
Okolie has been an observer of Anthony Joshua throughout his whole career and whilst he was working at McDonald’s he watched ‘AJ’ become an Olympic gold medalist in 2012.
“My whole life has been about the next step,” he added. “When I was working at McDonald’s it was about getting to the Olympics, then when I did that it was becoming world champion.
Moreover, he has said that he has no issue fighting Anthony Joshua and he is happy to fight anyone to achieve his dream of becoming world heavyweight champion.
“Now my aim is to be world heavyweight champion. I want that next year.”
Okolie is certainly not shy when it comes to his aspirations and he understands that in a packed division he has to take opportunities when they come.
Anthony Joshua no longer is set to rematch Daniel Dubois next, therefore a fight with Okolie may well be on the cards.
Tyson Fury Names The Best Fighter He’s Ever Faced And It’s ‘Nowhere Near’ Oleksandr Usyk
Tyson Fury has lost to only one man in his professional career, but that is not the man he claims is the best he has ever faced.
Fury was a long unbeaten heavyweight star who knocked out the likes of Dillian Whyte, won all three fights in a trilogy with Derek Chisora, won a world title on away soil against a previously dominant champion in Wladimir Klitschko and of course entertained the world with an epic trilogy against American puncher Deontay Wilder.
It was back in May that he first tasted defeat, and the man in the opposite corner was the former Olympic gold medalist and undisputed cruiserweight champion Oleksandr Usyk.
Their close 12-round battle for undisputed honours in the heavyweight division was narrowly handed to the Ukrainian on points, and now they will do it all again in December, though only for three of the four titles as Daniel Dubois is now in possession of the IBF strap.
Speaking to Frank Warren’s Queensberry Promotions, ‘The Gypsy King’ was asked if Usyk was the best he had ever faced but instead went with the ever-dangerous puncher, ‘The Bronze Bomber.’
“He’s a good boxer but no, nowhere near. I think the fights with Wilder when you’re bounced off the canvas two or three times, 10 knockdowns, and at any given moment can be taken out, is much more dangerous than having a boxing match with this guy.”
Wilder has won just once since losing twice to Fury, and that was a quick knockout of Robert Helenius before he then lost on points to Joseph Parker and was stopped by Zhilei Zhang in June, though he has vowed to fight on.
One of only two men to share the ring with Tyson Fury on three occasions, Deontay Wilder knows ‘The Gypsy King’ better than most. The pair battled in a trilogy of absorbing encounters between 2018 and 2021. The first fight was a controversial draw, before the Brit confirmed his dominance in bouts two and three with knockout wins.
Fury’s three fights with Wilder were some of the most entertaining in heavyweight boxing history and were significantly more entertaining than his one-sided trilogy with Derek Chisora, which saw the Morecambe man win every bout. However, in his last outing back in May, Tyson lost for the first time in his career after dropping a split decision to Oleksandr Usyk on the judges’ scorecards.
The 36-year-old will get his chance at redemption when he faces Usyk in a rematch on the 21st of December in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. For one of the only times in his professional career, Fury will enter the contest as a clear underdog, needing to deal with the pressure of bouncing back from his first defeat.
Deontay Wilder Picks Definitive Winner for Usyk vs Fury 2
‘The Bronze Bomber’ is backing Usyk to come out on top again
Wilder knows all too well how tough that is to do. Before he faced Fury in their second fight in February 2020, ‘The Bronze Bomber’ was unbeaten in 43 fights. Since being knocked out by Tyson in the seventh round of that clash, he has gone on to lose three of his next four bouts. Most recently, he was brutally knocked out by Chinese powerhouse Zhilei Zhang in a fight that many predicted at the time would spell the end of his career.
While his time at the top of the heavyweight division looks to be over, Wilder is still in a unique position when it comes to providing an insight on how Fury might fare in his upcoming clash with Usyk. Asked by Boxing News to share his prediction for the fight, Wilder gave the edge to the reigning WBA, WBC and WBO heavyweight champion as he reasoned:
“The rematch, who knows, it’s all about what person brings what dog to the fight. Many times, we have good days, and we have bad days, you just never know. If I had to pick, I would say Usyk, but let’s see what happens!”
If Fury can prove Wilder wrong and even the score with Usyk, then a trilogy fight would almost certainly be inevitable to determine who is the better man once and for all. As for Wilder’s own career, his trainer Malik Scott has confirmed that he doesn’t expect the 39-year-old to retire – and even went as far as to confirm a three-man wish-list for his return fight.
That currently doesn’t include Fury or Usyk. However, if the Tuscaloosa native does successfully make a return to the ring and put together a string of wins, expect him to do be calling for a chance to once again face the very best in the division.
Lennox lewis on Oleksandr Usyk-Tyson FUry 2: “I think we’re going to get a different Tyson for this fight.”
If anyone knows a thing or two about high level championship boxing, it’s one Lennox Lewis, the former undisputed heavyweight champion of the world, as well as an all time great. Now long retired, Lewis’ opinion carries weight when he speaks about the contemporary boxing scene. Needless to say, the man has interesting things to say about the upcoming rematch between Oleksandr Usyk and Tyson Fury, which will go down in Saudi Arabia on December 21t.
On a recent interview with Fight News, Lewis weighed in on the fact that Fury, who lost a squeaker to Usyk on the cards their first fight, claimed he won’t change much about his approach for the second fight. All he needs, he argues, is to do more of the same, just at a higher volume. Lewis isn’t buying it.
“No, it’s not as simple as that,” said Lewis. “He (Fury) does need to make some adjustments. If he didn’t make any adjustments, then he would lose the fight again. He would have to make some adjustments to win the fight, so he definitely has to go in there with a focused attitude and being able to throw a lot more punches.” The truth, however, is that Lewis isn’t sold on the argument that Fury is simply going to do more of the same in his rematch with Usyk.
“I don’t think he wants to give too much away,” Lewis admitted, “and I think we’re going to get a different Tyson for this fight. I think he realizes what he did wrong in the first fight.” With an ability to fight expertly as both a defensive and an offensive fighter, Fury is indeed a man with numerous tools in his toolbox. Will they be enough to best Usyk, though?
Although smaller than the towering Fury, Usyk is a profoundly skilled fighter. What’s more, he has a history of doing well against bigger men. Not only has he bested Fury in the ring, Usyk has also handily defeated former world titlist Anthony Joshua on not one, but two occasions. When asked how Usyk would do well in Lewis’ time, Lewis made it clear the undefeated Usyk would fit in well. “He would have got on good,” Lewis said of Usyk. “Just look at how Evander Holyfield got on.” Holyfield, like Usyk, successfully made the jump from cruiserweight to heavyweight during his career.
Suffice to say, Lewis defeated Holyfield in November of 1999 after fighting the popular titlist to an extremely controversial draw the previous March.
Frank Warren rules out Daniel Dubois vs Anthony Joshua rematch and names alternative fight he ‘likes’
Frank Warren has confirmed that Queensberry Promotions are now looking at alternative opponents for Daniel Dubois’ next fight.
‘Triple D’ was expected to rematch Anthony Joshua next after blasting him out inside five rounds in September.
In the days that followed the crushing defeat, AJ’s promoter Eddie Hearn confirmed that talks were underway and moving in a positive direction.
However, negotiations have now come to an abrupt halt due to Joshua and Dubois’s uncoordinated timelines.
According to AJ’s promoter Eddie Hearn, his client is still nursing some ‘niggles’ from their inaugural encounter and will need time to recover.
Meanwhile, Dubois is targeting a return to the ring on February 22, which Hearn is concerned will be too tight of a turnaround for the Watford powerhouse.
Hearn held out hope for the fight being pushed back to a date that benefits both men.
But Warren wants Dubois to stay active and so is moving on from the rematch for the time being.
“I don’t see that happening next,” Warren said of Dubois vs Joshua II to BoxNation.
“We are looking at a couple of things at the moment and we will make a decision.
“I was hoping we would get it done fairly quickly but we won’t. I was hoping to get it done last week and this week.
“So sometime next week we are going to be in a position where we can close on something and we are talking to a few other guys…
“I’m hearing that he [Joshua] is injured. Whatever it is, if things are going to happen they happen and it has taken a while so you’ve got to feel it won’t happen.
“Unless I get a phone call saying it is on. But we have got to make some decisions and with the greatest respect to everyone we are in the Daniel Dubois business.
“He is the one that matters for me… I want him out on that date and he wants to be out [February 22].
IBF president Daryl Peoples confirmed earlier this week that Dubois can make an optional defence against any ranked fighter before April 22′, leaving the door open for a domestic dustup with Wardley.
The Ipswich puncher knocked out Frazer Clarke earlier this month to defend his British heavyweight title and is currently ranked No.12 by the IBF.
Dubois recently came on talkSPORT and welcomed a fight with his Queensberry stablemate but Warren expects them to meet further down the line.
“I don’t see that happening next,” Warren added. “Fabio will fight anyone, he is a fighting man, this is a man who comes from an unlicensed background.
“You’ve seen what he is all about. He goes in there and he gives everything.
“For me, that fight could be built into something mega there is no doubt about that.”
Another possibility that has been floated around is a clash with Joseph Parker.
The Kiwi isn’t currently ranked in the IBF top 15 due to his WBO ‘interim’ champion status but Warren likes the fight.
“I like most of the fights for him and that is one of them,” Warren said of a possible bout with Parker.
“But we will see we are not going to be rushed into anything and we will look where we are and what to consider and then make a considered choice.
“But it has got to be something that suits everybody that is involved and more importantly something that suits Daniel because he is the champion.”
Anthony Joshua’s defeat by Daniel Dubois affected those at the Ben Davison Performance Centre like “someone had died”, according to Moses Itauma.
The 35-year-old Joshua was in September stopped by Dubois in five unexpectedly one-sided and dramatic rounds, at the very least stalling the revival of his career that his trainer Ben Davison was considered to have overseen.
Joshua had impressed under Davison in victories over Otto Wallin and Francis Ngannou, and in so doing further enhanced Davison’s reputation at a time when Joshua’s decision to recruit him had already provided a lift to those also at his gym.
The talented Itauma – widely considered among Joshua’s successors towards the very top of the heavyweight division – has perhaps benefitted by observing him while they have used the same facilities, and after his return to the gym in preparation for his fight on December 21 with Demsey McKean found it to be suffering as a consequence of Joshua’s defeat.
Fabio Wardley, another heavyweight, was by then preparing for the rematch with Frazer Clarke in October that he won with Davison in his corner, but the 19-year-old Itauma told BoxingScene: “The first week, the gym was like someone had died. But I’m happy that it’s like that, because if we got back in the gym and [Davison’s] lovey, dovey; happy; cheering, I’d be like, ‘AJ’s just got knocked out and you’re here…’, so I’m happy.
“The gym vibe – in the middle of pads I went and said, ‘Ben, you’ve gotta liven this up – there’s other people in this gym’. He was like, ‘Yeah, I know, mate, but it’s just…’ – and it’s kind of the energy I want. If that was me, getting knocked out, I don’t really want people to go to the gym and be happy. I want that – not passion – but that commitment from my trainer. If he came to the gym and was all happy, it’d show how much commitment he’s got.”
Itauma had been asked about the criticism of Davison in the aftermath of Dubois-Joshua when he had said so, and he also intriguingly said: “I know a few things, but it’s not my place to speak on it. Ben Davison’s a great trainer, and in time it shall show how good of a trainer he is.
“It’s just typical boxing, though, isn’t it? Even ‘AJ’ – everyone’s calling him ‘X, Y, Z’, because he’s had that one loss. People are forgetting what he’s done for British boxing. Before AJ, the boxing scene was dead, and now he’s revived it. People are always going to talk; they’re always going to have something to say.
“It’s just doing the best for you and your family and your circle. AJ didn’t really have to take that fight, and like he said, he took a shot at greatness and came up short.
“With me, with this fight, I’m not deluded. I do believe I’m going to go in there and knock him out, but there’s a possibility that could happen to me. I just train, and hope that that’s not me.”
Itauma in July stopped Mariusz Wach before taking the holiday his manager Francis Warren and his promoter, Francis’ father Frank, had wanted.
In his first 19 months as a professional prizefighter he had fought 10 times, but after travelling to the Paris Olympics, Cyprus and Spain with the satisfaction of knowing that he had recorded 10 victories, he revealed that he became agitated because of his desperation to return to the ring.
“I done everything I wanted to do,” he said ahead of the fight with McKean, of Australia, on the undercard of Oleksandr Usyk-Tyson Fury II at the Kingdom Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. “I went to the Olympics; went Cyprus; went Spain a couple of times. Went back home [to Kent, England], to see the family; I went everywhere, pretty much. I did have a good holiday.
LONDON, ENGLAND – APRIL 01: Anthony Joshua looks on prior to the Heavyweight fight between Anthony Joshua and Jermaine Franklin at The O2 Arena on April 01, 2023 in London, England. (Photo by James Chance/Getty Images)
“When I was out in Spain, I was thinking, ‘I can’t wait to get back in the gym – I’m actually tired of this’. So, yeah, I needed it. When I’ve taken a break from boxing, I’ve realised how much I need it. It’s addictive. I just can’t be the one sitting around not doing anything. I have to do something. When I came back from my holiday I was eager to get back into the gym. Enjoying my life’s not really for me, because I don’t really deserve to enjoy it yet. I need to make an impact on boxing first. Not even in boxing – in people’s lives.
“I was calling him out, so when Demsey McKean was like, ‘Okay, we’re gonna give you the fight’, I’m like, ‘Yeah, let’s crack on – let’s not waste no time’.
“It wasn’t just him. I called out Demsey McKean; [David] Adeleye; [Solomon] Dacres. I called out everyone. Obviously McKean said, ‘Yeah, I’ll have a bit of that’, so we’re here now.
“It don’t bother me. At the end of the day I go in there and fight – that’s my job. Making fights happen is not my job. I just leave that down to my team. Maybe they [potential opponents] have got to make their money’s worth.
“Boxing’s my job – I get in the ring and fight. Whatever happens outside the ring, that’s not down to me. Let’s say I fight Johnny Fisher in a year or so. I wouldn’t care about the titles. It’s just me and Johnny, the two English heavyweights, coming up. We have to fight, title or no title. Maybe I am coming up; maybe I’m not. I don’t care. I just want to get in the ring.
“Maybe I do want [Daniel] Dubois, but not because of his titles – because he’s the heavyweight on the British scene. He’s number one. He’s seen as the best, and I want that. I’m not bothered about the titles, and X, Y, Z, because you’ve got to look at the rankings.
“Some of these guys, I’m like, ‘How are you ranked?’. I’m not too bothered about the titles. I just want to be the best, really, and I just want to make the best fights happen. Even with Demsey McKean – I’m pretty sure this is for the Commonwealth title. I’m not really too bothered. I just wanted to fight Demsey. That’s just how it is.”
