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Simon Samano

Why did Mike Tyson keep biting his gloves during the Jake Paul fight?

Repeatedly throughout his fight with Jake Paul on Friday night, Mike Tyson kept biting his own gloves, which isn’t something you see every day in a boxing match.

On the Netflix streaming broadcast, ringside commentators Mauro Ranallo, Roy Jones Jr. and Rosie Perez couldn’t stop talking about it. Specifically, Jones couldn’t stop pointing out every time Tyson did it and wondered if he had a mouthpiece issue, to which Ranallo assured Jones that biting his own gloves has been a tick throughout Tyson’s career.

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