Mike Tyson vs. Jake Paul will be a sanctioned heavyweight bout

In the co-feature, unified featherweight champion Amanda Serrano (46-2-1, 30 KOs) faces super lightweight champion Katie Taylor (23-1, six KOs) in a rematch of the first women’s main event at Madison Square Garden.

Both Tyson-Paul and Serrano-Taylor will stream live on Netflix.

“Mike Tyson and Jake Paul signed on to fight each other with the desire to do so in a sanctioned professional fight that would have a definitive outcome,” Most Valuable Promotions co-founder Nakisa Bidarian said in a statement. “Over the past six weeks MVP has worked with its partners to satisfy the requirements of the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulations to sanction Paul vs. Tyson, and we are grateful that we have gotten to this point.”

Tyson, 57, became the youngest heavyweight title holder in boxing history when he won the WBC belt in 1987 at 20 years 4 months 22 days, reigning undisputed through 1990. He was the first heavyweight to own simultaneously the WBC, WBA and IBF titles.

Tyson last fought in an official boxing match in 2005 at Capital One Arena, then known as MCI Center, in the District, failing to answer the bell in the seventh round against Kevin McBride.

Paul, 27, gained fame on YouTube before becoming a professional boxer in 2020. Two years later Paul, a co-founder of Most Valuable Promotions, landed on Forbes’s list of highest-paid athletes for three boxing matches with estimated earnings of $38 million.

Paul also has 27 million followers on Instagram and 4.6 million followers on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.