Jake Paul warmed up for his blockbuster rescheduled showdown towards Mike Tyson with a bruising knockout victory over Mike Perry.
The so-called ‘Downside Youngster’ knocked down the extraordinarily sturdy former UFC favorite turned Naked Knuckle Combating Championship star thrice en path to an exciting sixth-round stoppage win in a bloody cruiserweight contest in Tampa, Florida on Saturday night time.
Paul was rewarded for taking what many deemed as a probably pointless danger in combating the harmful Perry on the night time that he was initially resulting from meet Tyson, earlier than that bout was pushed again to November 15 final month after the heavyweight boxing icon suffered an ulcer flare-up throughout a flight from Miami to Los Angeles.
He produced crushing knockdowns early in each the primary and second rounds, inflicting heavy punishment on Perry with a sequence of highly effective punches that left his powerful opponent with a bloodied face.
Paul additionally noticed blood pouring from a lower close to his left eye as Perry hung in there and repeatedly tried to stroll by such massive pictures and hold making use of the strain, however finally the previous YouTuber acquired the end he had been threatening all night time after hurting Perry a number of instances in spherical 4.
The top finally got here early in spherical six, with Perry flattened by one other vicious mixture from Paul and referee Christopher Younger stepping in to wave off the battle regardless of the tough-as-nails Perry beating the rely and getting again to his ft as soon as once more.
Paul afterwards insisted that his rescheduled battle with Tyson was finalised for November, insisting once more that he has what it takes to beat the now 58-year-old ‘Iron Mike’.
He additionally known as out present UFC light-heavyweight – and former middleweight – champion Alex Pereira for a boxing battle in future, whereas indicating an openness to rematching Perry in a bare-knuckle contest. Perry, in the meantime, mentioned he was open to a bare-knuckle second battle with Paul or probably even a future rematch within the MMA octagon.
In Saturday night time’s co-main occasion, Amanda Serrano despatched an emphatic message of her personal to Katie Taylor forward of their huge November rematch on the Jake Paul-Mike Tyson undercard with a dominant second-round stoppage of Tampa knockout artist Stevie Morgan.
It was a vicious onslaught from the primary bell from the long-lasting seven-weight world champion, who marked her fiftieth skilled battle with a thirty first knockout and first for 3 years.
It was a strong return to motion for Serrano, whose final battle towards Germany’s Nina Meinke in her native Puerto Rico in March was known as off simply minutes earlier than it was alleged to happen resulting from an eye fixed harm sustained by the unified featherweight title-holder.
Canada’s Lucas Bahdi produced a powerful Knockout of the 12 months contender towards Ashton ‘H20’ Sylve, having been dominated in each spherical earlier than producing a monster double proper hand and left hook mixture within the sixth that left Paul’s Most Beneficial Promotions’ (MVP) highly-rated and beforehand undefeated light-weight prospect out chilly on the canvas in completely brutal trend.
Corey Marksman earlier excelled in an exciting light-weight rematch with Florida rival Tony Aguilar.
Vastly skilled ex-WBC middleweight world champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr outpointed former long-time UFC fighter Uriah Corridor to mark his unconvincing comeback after two-and-a-half years out of the ring, with the Mexican subsequently calling out Paul for a gathering subsequent 12 months.
The early three-fight prelim present noticed girls’s super-middleweight contender Shadasia ‘Candy Terminator’ Inexperienced bounce again from her maiden defeat by Franchon Crews-Dezurn as she shook off a controversial seventh-round knockdown to comfortably outpoint Natasha Spence.
Puerto Rican middleweight prospect Alexis ‘Chop Chop’ Chaparro made it two knockout wins to start his thrilling professional profession with a blistering second-round stoppage of Kevin Hill.
The night time started with Las Vegas super-bantamweight expertise Angel Barrientes outpointing powerful journeyman Edwin Rodriguez to make it 9 consecutive wins since his shock lone defeat by Travon Lawson again in 2020.