The reporter immediately threw the next poser: “Do you wish it was a sanctioned fight and not an exhibition like it’s going to be?” Lennox Lewis responded back that he wouldn’t have sought such a requirement for the simple reason that later he would have felt very bad for Jake Paul. “No, cuz I would feel really bad for Jake Paul. I don’t want him to get hurt,” said Lennox Lewis.

For the benefit of the readers, even if a bout is an exhibition, it has to get the requisite sanction. Reportedly, organizers tried getting a pro-bout sanction for the Tyson-Paul match, but it didn’t succeed.

Even Reel Life Says So

Nevertheless, it wouldn’t be the first time Lennox Lewis would be expressing his confidence in his former opponent. Early last month, through his Instagram account, the former heavyweight champion shared something interesting. It carried a sequence from a virtual mixed martial arts fight between Mike Tyson and Jake Paul. He wrote, “So I hear @miketyson will be fighting @jakepaul. Not quite sure how that will go, but it could be something like this.”

The simulated game of a much younger version of ‘Iron’ Mike facing Jake Paul ended no sooner than it had started as a right overhand from the former connected neatly, sending ‘The Problem Child’ on a downward spiral to the canvas.

One of the followers backed Lennox Lewis’ stand. They mentioned that if the July 20 fight is not fixed, then, in all probability, the match has every chance of following the virtual game’s outcome.