After agreeing to a battle with Jake Paul, Mike Tyson, a former heavyweight, received a health warning from a physician.

After agreeing to a battle with Jake Paul, Mike Tyson, a former heavyweight, received a health warning from a physician.

On July 20, a fight between 30-year-old YouTuber-turned-boxer Paul and the former unified heavyweight champion Tyler is planned.

Even though Tyson was the first heavyweight fighter in history to hold the WBA, WBC, and IBF championships concurrently and one of the fiercest fighters in the world, he will be 58 years old when he fights Paul.

In fact, Paul, 27, has drawn criticism for accepting a bout with a fighter who hasn’t participated in a professional match since 2005 from people like Eddie Hearn, Carl Froch, and KSI.

Furthermore, a prominent lecturer in medicine at Anglia Ruskin University has noted in an article for The Conversation that Tyson might get fatal injuries in the fight.

Dr. Stephen Hughes asserted that “Iron Mike,” an elderly man in recovery from alcoholism, is susceptible to a subdural hemorrhage, or rupturing of the brain’s veins.

The brain tends to lose volume as people age, according to Hughes. The bridging veins get longer as a result, increasing their susceptibility to rupture.

Blood builds up in these ripped veins, pressing against the brain as a result of bleeding. Confusion, unconsciousness, neurological impairment, and occasionally even death result from this.

Since alcoholism is known to hasten brain shrinkage, Tyson seems to have a history of alcoholism.

Hughes went on to say that if Tyson overtrains for the rematch, he could end up with many cardiac issues.

Hughes went on, “Heart attacks and arrhythmias—an abnormal heartbeat—as well as angina, or decreased blood supply to the heart muscles, are more common in middle age.

“A healthy lifestyle helps prevent cardiovascular disease, and Tyson will get many benefits from his fitness regimen. But there’s always the temptation to go overboard in the gym.

Overindulgence in physical activity may result in cardiac fibrosis, a condition that damages the heart muscles and can eventually cause heart failure or even unexpected death.

Narrowed heart arteries, or coronary atherosclerosis, are frequent in middle age, even in those who appear healthy. Nevertheless, it can result in unexpected death when exercising.
“A cocaine habit increases this risk significantly, even though regular exercise lowers it, and Tyson has a history of cocaine usage.”