Mike Tyson slapped Jake Paul for stepping on his foot as their pre-fight weigh-in boiled over.
Seemingly out of nowhere, Tyson smacked Paul in the face at the Las Colinas, Texas, event ahead of their Friday boxing match at AT&T Stadium.
Paul responded, “He hits like a bitch … He must die.”
Tyson claims to have not even heard him.
The smack was Tyson’s reaction to upstart Paul stepping on his toe, which he thinks may have been on purpose.
“I was in my socks and he had on shoes,” Tyson told The Post moments after the weigh-in. “He stepped on my toe because he is a f–king a–hole. I wanted to think it happened by accident. But now I think it may have happened on purpose.
“I was in a lot of pain. I had to reciprocate.”
Asked what he would say to his 27-year-old foe right now, if they were together, Tyson responded sharply: “Talking’s over.”
A representative of Tyson told The Post: “Jake has been poking the bear the whole time. Mike slapped the s–t out of him.”
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