Former world heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson admitted that he may not be back to full health yet after his boxing match with Jake Paul, which took place on Nov. 15.
“I feel pretty good,” Tyson first told Eileen Reslen of the New York Post on the 2025 Pegasus World Cup carpet last Saturday.
However, he then added: “I don’t know if I’m 100 percent recovered, but I feel good.”
It’s understandable that Tyson isn’t at 100 percent two-and-a-half months after the eight-round bout.
For starters, he’s 58 years old and fought his first professional match since 2005.
Second, then 27-year-old Paul landed 78 total punches (including 47 power punches) to Tyson’s 18, per CompuBox’s stats. So Tyson was on the receiving end of much of the match’s punishment. The three judges also awarded Paul a unanimous decision win, with one awarding him all eight rounds and the other two giving him seven.
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Tyson also admitted a month after the fight that he doesn’t remember much from it.
“I don’t remember the fight that much, I kind of blanked out,” Tyson admitted said during an chat on Fox Sports Radio’s Covino and Rich (via Charlotte Daly of the Daily Mail). “I haven’t watched the fight back.
“You know what I remember… coming back from the first round and Jake was doing some sort of bow… that’s the last thing I remember.”
That’s certainly a scary admission from Tyson. Hopefully he’ll be able to say that he’s 100 percent recovered soon enough.
Tyson certainly dished a lot more than he took during his career, which saw him win his first 37 matches. He notably became a heavyweight champion at 20 years old when he beat Trevor Berbick for the WBC crown in Nov. 1986.
He finished his career with 50 victories in 59 matches overall.
