A 59-year-old boxer has known as out Jake Paul.
You’d be forgiven for feeling like this was deja vu another time, however sadly it’s not.
Simply days after beating Mike Tyson by way of unanimous resolution, Paul has no scarcity of suitors lining as much as attempt to knock out the cocky YouTuber.
The Paul vs Tyson combat wasn’t precisely a day to recollect for the game of boxing and combat followers have been left shocked once more by a combat on Wednesday (AEDT).
Oliver McCall, 59, defeated Stacy Frazier, 54, of their heavyweight bout on the Nation Field combat card in Nashville, Tennessee.
Veteran boxing analyst Dan Rafael wrote on X, maybe sarcastically: “Epic fight about to start.”
McCall was far too good for Frazier and knocked him down 3 times within the opening two rounds.
The third knockdown proved an excessive amount of for Frazier, who sat slumped in opposition to the ropes within the nook of the ring, unable to outlive a standing depend and the referee known as a cease to the combat.
Afterward, McCall took the chance in his post-fight interview to name Paul out, declaring: “You know I’ll knock Jake Paul out.”
The American veteran additionally pledged to get revenge on Logan Paul for his knocking out former NBA participant Nate Robinson in 2020, though it was really Jake Paul who fought that combat.
“I want to get revenge for Nate Robinson and then for what he’s done to Mike Tyson, that would be awesome,” McCall mentioned.
It’s no shock McCall acquired the win given he’s remarkably by no means been knocked down in 74 fights and 438 skilled rounds. Frazier’s file now reads 16-23 after the loss.
It was McCall’s first combat since 2019 and the victory takes his file to 60-14 (39KOs).
McCall has been across the block for a very long time. He made his skilled debut in 1985 and the spotlight of his profession got here in 1994 when he defeated Lennox Lewis by way of TKO to say the WBC heavyweight title.
Lewis gained their rematch in 1997 and went on to grow to be the undisputed world heavyweight champion, famously defeating Mike Tyson in 2002.
It might be a shock if Tyson fights once more, particularly after he revealed he wanted eight blood transfusions in June and “almost died.”
However a minimum of Tyson and McCall could be evenly matched within the age division. They by no means fought one another within the prime of their careers.
There are requires Paul to combat a respectable fighter in his subsequent bout after the 27-year-old took his boxing file to 11-1.
It comes as Hollywood icon Sylvester Stallone went public together with his principle that Tyson was appearing within the combat with Paul.
The Rocky actor wrote his message on Instagram whereas sharing a number of pictures of himself with the previous “Baddest Man On The Planet.”
“Business is business. SOMETIMES you have to do hard things and sacrifice for the sake of helping your FAMILY,” he wrote.
“I’ve identified this unbelievable athlete since he was 19 years previous and what we noticed was him giving one of many nice Oscar-winning performances of all time!!!!
“Please, Jake, be grateful, HE SPARED YOUR LIFE! Belief me.
“Preserve punching Mike. There’ll by no means be a MAN such as you, a GLADIATOR such as you, and a SOUL such as you!
“Keep punching champion of champions! I remember once I bumped into him and thought I was hit by a runaway BULLDOZER.”
Tyson mentioned “it depends on the situation” if he would combat once more and known as out Logan Paul within the ring after the loss to Jake.
NFL Corridor of Famer Michael Irvin additionally raised eyebrows when sharing his principle about why Tyson regarded so toothless in opposition to Paul.
Irvin is the newest public determine to query if the contract included a clause banning Tyson from throwing an uppercut — his most devastating punch.
“I didn’t see one patented uppercut by Mike Tyson,” he mentioned on the newest episode of the It Is What It Is podcast.
“You taking away Mike Tyson’s best gift, which was that uppercut. Man, that’s a big lie to me. That’s like making me play a game without running a slant route in the deep end or the deep out. You do what you do best. If they take that away you not that dude anymore, and they took that away.”
Irvin additionally mentioned on Fox Sports activities’ The Herd with Colin Cowherd that “it was fixed.”
It pours gasoline on the hearth of different conspiracy theories which have claimed Tyson pulled punches within the early rounds.
“People are like, ‘Oh, it’s rigged because look at him on the pads’,” Paul mentioned on brother Logan’s podcast.
“He didn’t do that within the combat as a result of somebody is f–king punching again, you dumb f–ks.
“You don’t understand my energy and my pace and my agility and my footwork to get out of the best way of these punches.
“All of a sudden he’s throwing at air. He can’t land those punches on me.”
He additionally mentioned Tyson’s punches didn’t part him in any respect.
“Didn’t feel a thing, to be honest,” he mentioned.
“It didn’t hurt. He didn’t really land anything.”
