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What a monstrosity

Matt Christie

@MattCBoxingNews

Editor

“THIS event could quite easily end up being the biggest boxing event in history and usurp Floyd Mayweather’s fights with Conor McGregor and even Manny Pacquaio,” concluded a press release about the Mike Tyson versus Jake Paul ‘event’ that is supposedly going to happen on July 20 in Dallas.

Where to start with all of that? The obvious place would be that Tyson, who will be 58 in June, is fighting 27-year-old Jake Paul.

Tyson retired in 2005, almost 20 years ago, when he was so far past his best it was jarring to watch him get pasted in his final two outings. was the biggest selling record in the UK, Bros dominated the Smash Hits Poll Winners Party, premiered to mediocre reviews, and Jake Paul was still nine years away from being born.

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