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Mike Tyson and Jake Paul are going to box live on Netflix. Here's how a heavyweight champion and a YouTuber-turned-boxer ended up fighting.
- Boxing Hall of Famer Mike Tyson will fight YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul live on Netflix on Friday, in the streamer's first-ever professional sports livestream.
- Netflix made several deals to get into live streaming of sports, including exclusive streaming rights for the WWE Raw in the US and a three-year deal with the NFL to livestream a selection of football games.
- Jake Paul and his older brother Logan Paul pivoted to boxing in 2018. Jake later went pro in 2020, and with the co-founding of Most Valuable Promotions, planned a fight with Tyson and got Netflix involved in November 2023.
- Tyson came out of retirement once in 2020 to fight and draw with Roy Jones Jr. in an event in which Jake Paul won his undercard match.
- Jake Paul later expressed his desire to fight Tyson publicly, resulting in the fight being sanctioned after he signed a deal with Netflix to livestream one of his boxing matches in November 2023.
- The fight was planned to be held at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, in March 2024, but was delayed from July to November due to Tyson's health concerns.
- Before the Tyson and Jake's fight, Netflix's livestream will broadcast two undercard matches and a co-main event fight between Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano.
- The fight is set to bring a new wave of sporting fans to the streamer and could make it a contender in the live sports space.
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