{"id":486797,"date":"2025-10-09T22:43:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T22:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/486797\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T22:43:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T22:43:10","slug":"would-prime-mike-tyson-fight-ufc-heres-irons-shocking-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/486797\/","title":{"rendered":"Would prime Mike Tyson fight UFC? Here\u2019s \u201cIron\u2019s\u201d shocking answer."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cIron\u201d came into his pugilistic prime right when the pay-per-view (PPV) model became the viewing standard for marquee events. That led to some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2024\/11\/15\/24297406\/mike-tyson-jake-paul-purses-netflix-rivals-could-combine-staggering-60-million-payout-boxing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">monstrous paydays<\/a> for the former WBC heavyweight champion, the primary reason he would never compete for Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cFive of the biggest UFC fighters combined couldn\u2019t match my pay,\u201d Tyson told a not-so-fat Joe during their conversation for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/f9xSgXde-pU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hard Rock Bet<\/a>. \u201cI want to be the biggest fighter, the biggest purse. I want all that stuff. When Mike Tyson fights, he shuts everything down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">But it sounds like Tyson would have loved the opportunity to \u2026 well, I\u2019ll let \u201cIron\u201d explain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI want to slam them, I want to hold them, I want to choke them,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2012\/9\/6\/3298660\/mike-tyson-mma-boxing-ufc-paydays\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tyson previously told This Is 50<\/a>. \u201cThat\u2019s what you want to do anyway if you\u2019re in a street fight, right? You want to hit them, but you want to get them too, real good. Get them down, get on top of them. So, you have more aspects. If it\u2019s not working this way, you can kick them in the f\u2014king head, you know? If they had big paydays, yes, no doubt about it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIron\u201d came into his pugilistic prime right when the pay-per-view (PPV) model became the viewing standard for marquee&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,126861,79,12137,160961,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-486797","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-boxing-news-results","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-ufc-news","12":"tag-ufc-payouts","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115346630619030523","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}