Mike Tyson makes feelings clear on potential new delay to Jake Paul boxing fight
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Mike Tyson has made it clear there won't be a new delay to his boxing fight with Jake Paul on Friday night.
The 58-year-old was forced to postpone the bout earlier in the year after suffering an ulcer flare up, with the pair previously being scheduled to do battle on July 20.
Tyson has been working hard on his fitness in the time since, with the boxing icon eager to wind back the years.
Many figures associated with the sport fear for the veteran, however, given how Paul is more than half his age at 27.
Boxing news: Mike Tyson has made it clear there won't be a new delay to his fight with Jake Paul on Friday night
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Tyson has, however, now made it clear there won't be another delay to the boxing fight.
The heavyweight icon insists he is 'going to be okay' and confessed to using 'narcotics and alcohol' during his last professional bout, which came against Kevin McBride in 2005.
"Thank you very much for being concerned," he said. "But I am fighting.
"I'm going to be okay… I was a different person [when I last fought professionally in 2005]. I was using narcotics and alcohol back then. I’m not that person anymore.
"I see a better picture of myself. I see light. I see the world from a different perspective now."
Tyson was a faded force when he lost to McBride in 2005.
He opted to retire on the back of that loss, having also been defeated by Danny Williams the previous year.
Though Paul is the favourite, it would be wrong to dismiss Tyson. He is, after all, one of the best heavyweights in boxing history.
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Tyson recently admitted that he thought he would die following his ulcer flare up earlier in the year.
Talking in a Netflix documentary, he said: "A week and a half ago I was training and I was doing great but then all of a sudden I started feeling tired.
"I was explaining to my trainer, 'I don't know what's wrong with me'.
"Coming here from Miami on the plane, I went to the bathroom and I threw up blood.
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Reuters"The next thing I know I'm on the floor, I was defacating tar.
"So I came here and they found I had a big ulcer, two-and-a-half inches, and it was bleeding. All my friends were calling me like I was dying.
"I asked the doctor if I was going to die and she didn't say no. She said we have options though, and that's when I got nervous.
"I can't wait to get out of this motherf***er, man. God, I want to fight and start training.
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"I don't want to die in the hospital bedroom, I want to die in the ring.
"You wouldn't believe what I endured from my ulcer. I lost 26 pounds, can you imagine that?
"I was so p***ed off because I had peaked. I was good, talking s**t, ready.
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