Nearly 80,000 people were hoping to see boxing legend Mike Tyson turn back the clock against Jake Paul on Friday night – and the excitement at AT&T Stadium was high early on.

But in the fourth round, when Tyson started looking like a 58-year-old who hadn’t had a professional fight in 19 years, the crowd began to die out. A few moments later, loud boo’s sounded, and the crowd grew restless.

The reaction on social media was similar, with many quickly losing interest in the greatest boxing spectacle in modern history. Perhaps numerous connection issues on Netflix, where the fight was shown live, and minutes of buffering also added to the disappointment.

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Mike Tyson (in black shorts) and Jake Paul (in silver shorts) trade punches during their Premiere Boxing Championship heavyweight world title fight on Friday night at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas on November 15. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Sure, almost no one in the crowd wanted to see Jake Paul win, but the crowd cheered the action as a whole – not just Paul. In the end, it was a unanimous decision victory for Paul.

Tyson clearly ran out of gas early, which could have prompted Paul, 31 years Tyson’s junior, to strike, but Paul later admitted he had taken his foot off the pedal.

“Definitely a little bit. I wanted to give the fans a show, but I didn’t want to hurt someone who didn’t need to get hurt,” he said in his post-fight presser. Tyson did not speak to the media.

“I tried to give the best fight I could, but when someone is just surviving in the ring, it’s hard to make it exciting. I couldn’t really get him to engage me or take slip shots and did something super cool or whatever,” he added.

Jake Paul and Mike Tyson embrace after their heavyweight boxing match on November 15 in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

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Well, that led to what is generally considered a boring fight. Perhaps the most exciting part of all this was Tyson’s punch at Thursday’s weigh-in.

But Paul, in his own words, doesn’t care about the negativity.

‘I don’t care what people have to say. They will always have something to say. It is what it is.’

Most Valuable Promotions co-founder Nakisa Bidarian added: “The only way people would have been happy is if Jake had lost. People would have said, ‘oh, what a great fight! Mike is a legend!’ (If) he knocked out Mike Tyson, there would have been tampering. It lasted eight rounds: ‘Mike didn’t try.’ It was an incredible match between a 58-year-old legend and the 27-year-old, relatively young boxer.

“And (Paul) beat Mike Tyson like he said he was going to do.”

American YouTuber/boxer Jake Paul celebrates winning the heavyweight boxing fight against retired pro boxer Mike Tyson (R) at The Pavilion at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, on November 15. (TIMOTHY A.CLARY/AFP via Getty Images)

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Paul improved to 11-1 in his young career. The loss was Tyson’s seventh, compared to 50 previous victories.

Tyson has now lost his last three sanctioned fights, and four of his last five, with his last win coming on February 22, 2003.

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