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Mike Tyson<\/strong><\/a> is ready to go toe-to-toe with Jake Paul<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n 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<\/a>, was because Jake had stepped on his foot.<\/p>\n “I was in my socks and he had on shoes,” Tyson told the New York Post<\/a> <\/em>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.”<\/p>\n The 58-year-old added that he was “in a lot of pain” during the confrontation, so he “had to reciprocate.”<\/p>\n But for Paul, the attack was harmless. After all, he taunted Tyson on stage following the slap, saying, “I didn’t even feel it.”<\/p>\n “He’s an angry little elf,” the 27-year-old\u2014who pivoted from YouTube to professional boxing<\/a> in 2018\u2014continued. “Mike Tyson, I thought that was a cute slap, buddy.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n