Mike Tyson is ready to go toe-to-toe with Jake Paul.
In fact, the boxing legend said the reason he slapped the YouTuber in the face during a weigh-in for their Nov. 15 fight, streaming live on Netflix, was because Jake had stepped on his foot.
“I was in my socks and he had on shoes,” Tyson told the New York Post Nov. 14, shortly after the incident. “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.”
The 58-year-old added that he was “in a lot of pain” during the confrontation, so he “had to reciprocate.”
But for Paul, the attack was harmless. After all, he taunted Tyson on stage following the slap, saying, “I didn’t even feel it.”
“He’s an angry little elf,” the 27-year-old—who pivoted from YouTube to professional boxing in 2018—continued. “Mike Tyson, I thought that was a cute slap, buddy.”
