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Rambo star Sylvester Stallone thinks Jake Paul is lucky to be alive today. He made that much very clear on Tuesday.
In a message posted to his Instagram account, the Rocky actor, who knows a whole lot about conducting fake fights, said he believes that the Mike Tyson vs. Jake Paul fight was not completely on the level. (Dallas Cowboys legend Michael Irving, who was at AT&T Stadium in Dallas for the event, would agree.)
“Just to set my personal record straight. Business is business,” Stallone wrote. “SOMETIMES you have to do some things you HAVE to do sacrifice for the sake of helping your FAMILY… I have known this unbelievable athlete since he’s 19 years old and what we saw was him giving one of the great Oscar winning performances of all time!!!!
“Please, Jake, be grateful, HE SPARED YOUR LIFE! Trust me…
“Keep punching Mike, there will never be a MAN like you, a GLADIATOR like you, and a SOUL like you! Keep punching champion of champions! I remember once I bumped into him and thought I was hit by runaway BULLDOZER!!!”
Originally, Sylvester Stallone wrote in that final paragraph, according to CBS Sports, “So in conclusion, I’ll take a line from Rocky, ‘he’s a wrecking machine, anything he touches it breaks badly.’ Keep punching Mike, there will never be a MAN like you, a GLADIATOR like you, and a SOUL like you! Keep punching champion of champions!”
Not sure why he changed it.
Regardless, considering Mike Tyson landed just 19 punches in eight rounds, and in two of those rounds he didn’t land one single punch on Jake Paul (who didn’t admitted not giving his full effort in the fight), he wasn’t much of a bulldozer this time around.
“I love Mike Tyson, but they are giving him too much credit. He looked like trash. To train that long and only throw 97 punches in the whole fight was crazy,” said world champion in four different weight classes, Terence Crawford, about Tyson’s effort.