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Jake Paul and boxing legend Mike Tyson are set to due battle this November, but there is one UFC fighter who doesn’t support the fight in any way.
That UFC star is former UFC Interim Lightweight Champion Dustin Poirier, who actually wants to see the fight cancelled altogether.
“I didn’t want that to happen,” Poirier said on The MMA Hour. “The guy is 60 years old. I didn’t want that to happen. And I hope it doesn’t. I don’t want to see Tyson go out there and get hurt. He’s 60 years old and he’s fighting a young guy who is athletic and has the money to put the best people around him and build a camp. He’s dangerous. I don’t have anything against [Paul]. I went to the [Tyron] Woodley [fight].”
Tyson will be 58 years old when the fight with Paul goes down, while Paul will be 27 years old, which is less than half of Tyson’s age.
Poirier can also see himself entering the boxing ring one day and he already has an opponent in mind.
“I would love to [box],” Poirier said. “That would be fun and exciting. ... Just a change of speeds, different training camp, just something different. I’ve been doing MMA a while. I still love the training camps and love fighting, but to go to purely boxing, the whole training camp would be a lot less wearing on my body. No wrestling, no jiu-jitsu, running, swimming, that’s fun. I’d box Nate [Diaz]. ... I’d rather [fight] Nate in boxing, I think.”
