Looking at the list of opponents Jake Paul defeated, Mike Tyson knows he's different and it's not because he's an accomplished boxing legend.
It's because he doesn't view Paul as a YouTuber at all ahead of their November 15 fight on Netflix. Tyson views Paul as a fighter and one who he is taking seriously.
"Forget what everyone says ‘this guy’s a YouTuber,’" Tyson told Logan Paul on the IMPAULSIVE podcast. "This guy’s a fighter. I’ve been many things too but I’m a fighter. I’m an actor, I’m a salesman, I’m an entrepreneur but we’re fighters. That’s who we really are. Him, too.
"I’m apprehensive and scary so I’m totally different than them."
It's for that reason that Tyson is taking Paul seriously.
"I take him extremely seriously," Tyson said. "These people don’t take him seriously."
He added: "That’s how I look at people — they’re all capable of killing you. My objective is like that — they're capable of killing me, I don't sleep on them. I’m not overconfident with anybody in life."
Tyson playfully pushed Paul during their New York City press conference Sunday but told Logan that he loves his brother and that their November 15 bout is strictly business.
"This is what’s going to happen to make everything short: Two men are going to fight, somebody’s going to win, they might fight again and then they go to their separate banks and life goes on," Tyson said.
"This is beautiful, man. This is what the world really needs right now. I know it looks crazy, you look at a YouTube guy, you look at me, but look at what we brought here (referencing the New York City press conference crowd), look at what we did. That’s not funny at all."
Tyson is 58-years-old to Paul's 27.
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