Mike Tyson's showing he ain't scared of Jake Paul ... giving him a couple shoves during a press conference for their upcoming fight -- and laughing all the while.
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00:00Welcome to TMZ Sports, I'm Mike Babcock with my man, as always, Mojo Butadi.
00:10Mojo, we're going to start with Mike Tyson and Jake Paul, who came face to face over
00:14the weekend in New York City for the very first time since their highly anticipated
00:20fight now going down November 15th at AT&T Stadium in Dallas, Texas.
00:26Since the fight was rescheduled, Mojo, and things got a bit heated, things actually turned
00:34physical at one point.
00:36You can see here there was some pushing, Mojo.
00:39Look, this is what the fight fans want.
00:41They want to hear two guys and see two guys who don't like each other get in that ring
00:45and fight each other.
00:46And I think that's what we've got here with Mike and Jake.
00:49So we saw the part where it got physical, Mojo.
00:51There were also some verbal barbs traded.
00:54Mojo, take a look at this.
00:56Why at this stage would you step into the ring again?
01:00I don't know.
01:02That's a funny question.
01:04Because I can.
01:05Who else can do it but me?
01:08Just look at it.
01:11Who else is he going to fight to make this happen?
01:16Listen, you just have to listen to the fact.
01:20We got a YouTuber fighting the greatest fighter that ever lived.
01:27Jake, every time, every time these fighters sit across from me, and it's YouTuber, it's
01:34Disney Channel, all that s***, and then you end up on the f***ing canvas, and you'll see,
01:39it's going to be no different here, I promise you that.
01:41Yeah, I mean, you heard someone ask it, Mojo, why would you step in at this point?
01:45I think clearly that means why Mike Tyson, at 58 years old, is going to take a fight
01:50against a guy who is decades younger than him.
01:53Mike said, because I can, and he thinks he's going to win the fight.
01:55I mean, it's clear as day listening to him talk.
01:58If Jake Paul puts Mike Tyson on the canvas during this fight, a small piece of my childhood
02:03is going to die.
02:05A horrible death, Babcock.
02:07I'm just saying.
02:08Now, that's not to say that that isn't likely, but I'm just saying it's going to hurt nonetheless.
02:15This press conference was very interesting, to say the least, right?
02:20I mean, I wasn't necessarily expecting these guys to go out there and try and draw blood.
02:26I mean, the physicality here, it almost looked like a couple of buddies shoving each other,
02:31a little friendly trash talk, no harm, no foul, no one's going to go home and feel sideways
02:37or feel like they got to turn the other dude inside out after what happened at the press
02:41conference.
02:42And to be honest with you, I don't hate that.
02:45I mean, I know a lot of people have some doubts about this fight and how physical it's going
02:49to be.
02:50And if they're going to be taking it easy on each other, but at the same time too, you
02:53don't need to real life friends trying to put on the show for the cameras, because let's
02:58be real.
02:59A lot of fighters are doing that at this point, I would say most fighters are doing that at
03:04this point.
03:05It's obvious why they're doing it.
03:06It sells tickets.
03:07It builds all the hype and excitement.
03:08And that's what you want to see.
03:10You want a little bit of a teaser in that press conference before you see these guys
03:14getting to the ring for real.
03:17That being said, that has been everyone's hold up again.
03:22Everyone's concerned about how this fight is going to go off.
03:24It was already rescheduled once for Mike Tyson's health issues.
03:28A lot of people are saying it's possible for this to happen again.
03:33I mean, there are some people very close to Mike Tyson, friends of his real life, friends
03:38of his that are advising him not to go through with this, to have your fun with the hype
03:43and the buildup and then to pull out at the last second.
03:46But either way, man, I guess we're going to see.
03:50I would love to see these guys go at it 110%.
03:55Even with the age difference, I mean, you're talking about a huge experience different
04:00as well.
04:01And you can't ever count out Iron Mike.
04:03That's for damn sure.
04:04So I don't know, Babcock, I guess we'll see.
04:13We'll see.