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    Did Jake Paul beat Mike Tyson? How the Netflix Fight Ended

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    Both men remained on their feet.

    Jake Paul, a 27-year-old social media personality who has been seeking boxing glory for years, has toppled a legend, handing a defeat to 58-year-old Mike Tyson in his first professional fight in nearly 20 years.

    The fight went the distance, with Paul winning the decision.

    This is what happened.

    Mike Tyson knocked out/loses to Jake Paul

    The fight between Jake Paul and Mike Tyson lasted eight two-minute rounds, concluding the first-ever live boxing event on Netflix.

    The winner needed all those rounds.

    The first round consisted of some quick, heavy punches from both men and a warning to Tyson to keep his punches above the belt.

    In the second round, Paul relied on body punches and quick retreats to stay away from Tyson’s signature bombs.

    In the third, Tyson absorbed several heavy punches from Paul and looked wobbly but held the center of the ring.

    His corner warned Tyson to “breathe and relax”, during the break before the fourth round, and begged him to deliver more jabs.

    In the fourth, Tyson maintained his position in the center of the ring and appeared to have slightly more energy, dodging more shots and occasionally countering with a hook.

    At the break, Paul’s corner told him he had ‘everything under control’.

    In the fifth, Paul kept Tyson moving around the ring, landing a host of left hooks on the aging champion.

    Both men showed some fatigue as they headed to their turns ahead of the final three laps.

    As in the previous five rounds, Paul went straight for Tyson at the sixth bell, bouncing and jabbing at the former undisputed heavyweight champion.

    The seventh round started with a flurry of punches from Tyson and Paul, with both men trading hooks and jabs in the center ring before engaging in a game of strategy. Paul spends much of the two-minute verse looking around Tyson’s guard, looking for openings.

    During the break, Tyson shivered in his corner and his team urged him to get active in the final round.

    The final round mirrored the action in the opening two minutes, with more punches and moves from Tyson and effective chase-and-cock punches from Paul.

    Neither man ever went down and neither Tyson nor Paul ever really seemed hurt or in danger during the 16-minute fight.

    Both men hugged in the center ring as the final bell rang.

    Paul added an eleventh victory to his burgeoning career. Tyson capped an impressive Hall of Fame career with a solid, but fruitless effort.

    Tyson has half a dozen knockouts in less than a minute.

    But he’s also had some late-round negatives, winning a handful of fights via KO or TKO after the third round.

    He also suffered knockouts in four of his six professional losses, including his stunning defeat to Buster Douglas in 1990 that ended his championship reign.

    Paul has suffered one loss in his pro career, knocking out Mike Perry in the sixth round for a technical knockout victory earlier this year.

    His only loss, to Tommy Fury early last year, was a split decision.

    Was the Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson fight real?

    The fight between Jake Paul and Mike Tyson was approved by the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation and was billed as a real fight.

    But ESPN noted that the rules for the fight were different than what boxing fans were used to.

    Both Paul and Tyson wore 14-ounce gloves instead of the traditional 10-ounce gloves, and the rounds lasted two minutes instead of the usual three minutes; and the fight would last eight rounds, not the usual 10 or 12.

    Damon C. Williams is a Philadelphia-based journalist covering trending topics in the Mid-Atlantic region.

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