Floyd Mayweather couldn’t assist however snigger when he was requested about his response to the Jake Paul-Mike Tyson battle.
Throughout an look on “The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon,” Mayweather defined {that a} potential battle with Paul can be a cakewalk for him at age 48.
“Easy, too easy,” Mayweather mentioned when Fallon requested about doubtlessly sparring with Paul, 27, who defeated 58-year-old Tyson by unanimous choice final November. “At 48, too easy.”
Paul, who re-shared a clip of the interview, mentioned he would knock out Mayweather in the event that they bought into the ring collectively.
“You bum,” Paul wrote on X. “[YouTuber] Deji [Olatunji] gave you a black eye in an event that had 4,000 people in it. Deji hahahah. I would knock you out in 2 rounds and you can’t sniff Mike Tyson’s toe.”
Paul beforehand defeated Olatunji within the fifth spherical of their bout in 2018, the identical 12 months Deji made his boxing debut.
Mayweather defeated Olatunji within the sixth spherical throughout a 2022 exhibition.
“I don’t really know where to go with this subject because if I say something, I’m gonna get backlash… no matter what I say, it’s always not right,” Mayweather advised Fallon relating to Tyson-Paul, which was streamed on Netflix.
“Properly mainly, whenever you’re watching boxing free of charge, you possibly can have… a whole lot of hundreds of thousands of views, however whenever you’re watching Floyd Mayweather you need to pay. It’s actual.
“I did pay-per-view numbers. Check the record.”
Paul, 28, beforehand denied that his unanimous choice win over 58-year-old Tyson on Nov. 15 was manipulated via contractual agreements after each fighters confronted backlash for placing on a lackluster occasion.
Many believed the anticipated showdown was a snoozefest as a result of each fighters didn’t seem to provide it their all within the ring.
After the battle, Paul defined that he didn’t need to harm the previous heavyweight champ additional.
Tyson landed 18 punches out of 97 whereas Paul related on 78 out of 278 punches, in accordance with the ultimate outcomes.
Tyson reportedly earned $20 million for the battle, whereas Paul obtained $40 million.
Mayweather retired from skilled boxing after defeating Conor McGregor in 2017.
He maintained his undefeated file with a collection of exhibition bouts within the years that adopted — together with an eight-round exhibition towards Paul’s older brother, Logan, which happened in Dubai in 2022.
“Me and Logan [Paul], we done an exhibition and that’s why he moved to WWE because he wanted to hold me the whole night,” Mayweather joked in regards to the 2021 bout, which had no judges or official winner. “I think WWE is good for Logan.”
Logan landed 28 of his 217 punches, whereas Mayweather related on 43 of his 107 within the exhibition battle, which happened in Miami with Jake in attendance.
Mayweather added that he doesn’t have an itch to return to the ring.
“No, not at all,” he advised Fallon a possible return to the game. “I could sit on my couch every week and a wire come in every week — millions every week. That’s why I’m Floyd ‘Money’ Mayweather, every week.”
