Oscar De La Hoya accuses Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson of being ‘scripted’

Oscar De La Hoya thinks there was one thing fishy occurring for final week’s Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson boxing match.

Though there’s no actual proof, many on-line have questioned the validity of Paul’s unanimous resolution win over Tyson final Friday on the Dallas Cowboys’ AT&T Stadium. De La Hoya, a former boxing world champion and now promoter, can be on that boat, as he just lately accused Paul of staging the battle with Tyson – which might be unlawful.

“Everyone seems to be speaking about how staged this battle was, and I do consider it was scripted, and I consider that Tyson was actually held again,” De La Hoya mentioned on Instagram. “Look, I’m a fighter, and I can see it. It goes on their report and it was sanctioned. So Jake Paul paid to get the W on his report, for what? On your personal private satisfaction?

“I maintain telling you, if you wish to be an actual fighter prefer to say you wish to be, what are you doing? Like, who’s subsequent? Joe Biden? You need to battle actual fighters. Nevertheless, the battle drew 65 million households, which implies roughly 200 million eyeballs had been watching, and the massive winners had been Amanda Serrano and Katie Taylor, who placed on an unimaginable actual battle that had been launched to new followers world wide.”

Paul and Tyson fought in an eight-round boxing match in entrance of an estimated crowd of greater than 70,000 folks on the Dallas Cowboys’ AT&T Stadium. There was additionally a reported 108 million reside world viewers on Netflix – the platform the occasion streamed on.

Paul, 27, is now 5-0 since struggling his first professional loss, which got here in opposition to Tommy Fury again in 2023. He’s 11-1 in his complete professional boxing profession. In the meantime. Tyson, 58, fought professionally for the primary time since his loss to Kevin McBride in 2005. He did compete in an exhibition bout in 2020, combating fellow legend Roy Jones Jr. to a draw.