Terence Crawford didn’t mince words.
The WBA super welterweight champion, largely considered one of the best pound-for-pound boxers in the world, chastised Mike Tyson for his performance against Jake Paul Friday night at AT&T Stadium.
The 27-year-old Paul — a YouTuber-turned-boxer — beat Tyson, now 58 years old, via unanimous decision in a heavily anticipated bout that was streamed on Netflix.
“I love Mike Tyson, but they giving him too much credit,” Crawford wrote on X. “He looked like trash, to train that long and only throw 97 punches the whole fight is crazy. I’m just glad he didn’t get hurt out there.”
Crawford’s sentiment matched the majority of viewers’ opinions about the bout.
Tyson had not fought an officially sanctioned, professional bout in 19 years, and there was immense intrigue into what he’d look like inside the ring at this age.
But he looked his age in the bout and was uncompetitive against Paul.
Tyson landed just 18 of the 97 punches he threw compared to Paul throwing 278 punches and landing 78 of them.
Paul admitted after the fight that he eased up and stopped looking for a knockout once he realized Tyson was not a threat.
By the end of the bout, fans booed both fighters for the lack of action.
The fight also featured unique rules — there were fewer and shorter rounds, and both fighters wore bigger gloves in order to lessen the impact on punches.
Still, the fight was a massive box office success.
Netflix announced that 60 million users tuned in to the bout, and the gate (the amount of money generated from ticket sales) surpassed $17.8 million, the biggest boxing gate outside of Las Vegas in U.S. history as 72,300 fans packed into the home of the NFL’s Dallas Cowboys.
Crawford, who owns a perfect 41-0 record, believes he could top that.
“I think I can do 90,000 at memorial Stadium,” Crawford, a Nebraska native, wrote on X. “I think ima go on and make history just to make some of y’all mad because yall be hating.”
