Mike Tyson argues that “ridiculous” Jake Paul is actually good for boxing

The boxing world is torn on the game’s newest YouTube superstar development with Jake Paul, his brother Logan, and extra taking the ring. However Mike Tyson can see how these “ridiculous” occasions could be good for boxing.

Jake Paul, particularly, has been main the cost together with his antics and publicly trash-talking among the greater names in motion sports activities like UFC welterweight champion Kamaru Usman and Mr. 50-0 himself, Floyd Mayweather.

Some consider that is casting a shadow on the game. LA Occasions sports activities columnist Dylan Hernández famous how “the clown reveals that make a mockery of the once-proud sport” have been taking the best way from the precise headline occasions like Canelo Alvarez vs Billy Joe Saunders, for instance.

Hernández was particularly speaking about Jake’s hat-grabbing fiasco with Mayweather at his older brother’s press occasion in Florida. Whereas that’s some of the distinguished outbursts of the YouTube boxing period, it left a foul style in critics across the sport.

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However Iron Mike sees it one other method. Whereas he nonetheless thinks Jake is “ridiculous,” the quantity of consideration he’s drawing to the game could be huge for the way forward for boxing.

“That’s why that stuff is nice,” he mentioned on the Hotboxin’ with Mike present. “As a result of the actual [boxers] don’t need to struggle one another. Jake Paul fought on my present as a result of he acquired 75 million viewers.

“He’s good for boxing. Is he kinda ridiculous? Yeah. However is he good for boxing? F**ok yeah. Boxing wants shit like that.”

As “ridiculous” as Jake Paul’s antics are, Tyson thinks the viewership he brings in is nice for the game.

At first, the Floyd Mayweather vs Logan Paul bout was getting traction for the names that might be within the ring. However Thursday’s press occasion made the June 6 exhibition match much more private for the fallacious causes.

In a broader sense, YouTube boxing has reignited the showmanship and fiery dialogue of the brutal sport – which is attracting new audiences. However for purists, it’s simply not actual boxing.

Nonetheless, if occasion managers can convert the newfound recognition that Jake Paul and the remainder of what YouTubers have to supply into long-lasting enchantment, then boxing could possibly be headed into a brand new golden age of viewership.