Suspicions continue regarding the fact that the fight won by Jake Paul over Mike Tyson was staged: it was noted that during the entire match the former world heavyweight champion did not land a single uppercut. His iconic shot on which he built an entire career of knockouts has literally disappeared from the ring: “It was a clause in the contract,” reveals former NFL star Michael Irvin.
A few days have passed since the fight between Mike Tyson e Jake Paul – ended with the large and undisputed victory on points (80-72, 79-73 and 79-73 the cards of the three judges) of the 27-year-old YouTuber turned boxer – and they do not decrease suspicions about the fact that the match was ‘rigged’ so as to end exactly as it did. The script, according to the rampant conspiracy theories, envisaged that Paul would continue his highly successful career without hindrance, with the prospect of millionaire earnings for the whole sideshow. A scenario that was not feasible with the almost 60-year-old Tyson, from whom everything possible had now been squeezed out, even in terms of the goose that laid the golden eggs. So it would have been a set victory for Jake, but without humiliating the old heavyweight champion (this last thing admitted by the YouTuber himself, who revealed that he didn’t want to attack with a KO). Obviously Tyson should have agreed too – so as not to get in on the act when he could – and the last vivisection of the match revealed a rather singular circumstance: in the total 16 minutes of the fight there is no trace of a single uppercut from Iron Mike, that is, his iconic blow on which he built a career full of KOs.
Mike Tyson’s legendary uppercut, the shot he built a knockout career on
To better understand what we are talking about, not only has Tyson never hit Paul with an ‘uppercut’ – that is, the punch launched from the bottom upwards from close range, aiming at the opponent’s chin to make the opponent’s head ‘explode’ ‘back – but he didn’t even try to bring one. The terrible puncher from Brooklyn never attempted it during the 8 2-minute rounds that lasted the match staged last Friday at the AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. He didn’t do it even in the first rounds of the match, when he was fresh and could have unleashed his devastating trademark, often preceded – in a combo that made boxing history – by a deadly right to the body.
Not even an uppercut thrown by Tyson against Paul: “It was in the contract”
The story was noticed and brought to attention by the great American football champion Michael Irvinwinner of three Super Bowls with the Dallas Cowboys in the first half of the 1990s. The 58-year-old did not limit himself to this, but added to having learned of an express clause that would have prevented Tyson from launching an uppercut during the match against Paul: “I was looking for that combo of shots, ‘one to the body, one with the uppercut’ – said the former NFL star – When Tyson does that it’s boom boom boom. I wanted to see it. But we didn’t have it, not even one“.
Because Mike Tyson kept biting his own gloves throughout his fight with Jake Paul
“I heard someone else say it was in the contract: ‘no uprights’. They had it in the contract! Come on guys, why wouldn’t Mike Tyson have thrown an uppercut? Mike Tyson isn’t Mike Tyson anymore anyway, and now you’re taking away his best gift, which was that uppercut. To me it’s all a big lie. It’s like having me play a game without making me do an in-depth diagonal track“added Irvin, who was a legendary receiver.
The video shows Tyson apparently stopping for no reason as he is about to hit Paul
Someone else, testifying to Tyson’s compliance – agreed upon and well paid – posted a video that would provide definitive proof that the match was rigged. “In case anyone had any doubts…“, is the caption that accompanies the video in which Iron Mike is seen starting with a right hook aimed at Paul’s defenseless face at that moment, only to then suddenly stop the movement without landing the blow.
Why did one of the greatest killers in the history of boxing stop for no apparent reason? A question that only finds answers from conspiracy theorists: for them the match had been decided upon for months.
