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One of the most anticipated combat sports events of the year will take place at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, on Friday as Mike Tyson and Jake Paul meet in a fight scheduled for eight rounds. Once the heavyweight champion nearly three decades ago, Tyson hasn’t been in a competitive fight since 2005, and he is facing a man 31 years his junior, making it the largest age gap in professional boxing history.
Paul, a YouTube sensation nicknamed “The Problem Child,” is the consensus favorite across the top sportsbooks. He has a 10-1 career record and defeated Mike Perry in July by a sixth-round TKO. Tyson, with a career record of 50-6, is an underdog for only the second time in his …