Boxing legend Mike Tyson will appear in his first sanctioned fight in decades on Friday.

The 58-year-old former heavyweight champion will take on 27-year-old Jake Paul – a social media star turned boxer – in Texas, Tyson’s first professional fight since his retirement in 2005.

Tyson retired from boxing with a record of 50-6 and 44 knockouts to his name. Paul has been boxing professionally since 2020. Sources estimate Tyson will make around $20 million by agreeing to Friday’s fight, according to DraftKings Network. Paul earns an estimated $40 million.

The fight will be streamed by Netflix at 8pm EST.

Mike Tyson’s professional boxing career

Tyson first rose to fame in the 1980s after winning his debut bout against Hector Mercedes with a first-round knockout. By the time he turned 21, his record was 30-0 and he held the WBA and WBC heavyweight titles. In his 31st fight, Tyson defeated Tony Tucker for the IBF title, becoming the first heavyweight boxer to hold all three titles.

However, less than a decade later, Tysons’ personal life began to tremble. Per report from The athletic, Tyson’s first wife, Robin Givens, filed for divorce in 1989, citing spousal abuse.

In 1992, 25-year-old Tyson was convicted of raping an 18-year-old Desiree Washington and was sentenced to six years in prison. Washington was a college student at the time and the reigning Miss Black Rhode Island. She met Tyson at the Miss Black American pageant in Indianapolis in 1991.

Tyson was sentenced to six years in prison, but was released in 1995, after serving only three years. He maintains his innocence, including writing in his 2013 autobiography: “I did not rape Desiree Washington.”

“She knows it, God knows it, and the consequences of her actions are something she will have to live with for the rest of her life,” Tyson wrote.

Mike Tyson’s history with Jake Paul

Tyson and Paul were originally scheduled to fight in July, although the bout had to be postponed after Tyson suffered a flare-up of a stomach ulcer in May. In an interview for Netflix’s preview series for the fight: Countdown: Paul vs. Tyson, Tyson said the ulcer was more than two inches long and caused him to lose 26 pounds.

“All my friends were calling me like I was dying,” Tyson said. “I asked the doctor if I was going to die, and she didn’t say ‘No.’ …You wouldn’t believe what I went through because of my ulcer.”

When Tyson and Paul met for their official weigh-in on Thursday, Tyson punched his opponent in the face. It’s unclear what caused Tyson, but Paul has said in multiple interviews leading up to Friday that he plans to knock out his opponent.

During an episode of Netflix’s countdown series, Tyson said, “There’s a fundamental difference between me and Jake. He’s a manufactured killer. Television and newspapers made him a killer. I’m a born killer.”