At 8 p.m. ET Friday night, boxing fans from around the world turned on Netflix to watch the highly-anticipated fight between 58-year-old former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson and 27-year-old YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul. Fans were expecting lots of taunting, lots of action, and very little respect between the combatants.

However, fans may not have expected to see an Oscar nominee as part of the broadcast team.

Who is Rosie Perez?

An esteemed actress and choreographer, Perez has worked with some of the biggest names in music and Hollywood. Perez is most famous for her work as an actress, earning an Oscar nomination for best supporting actress in 1993 for her work in the film ‘Fearless.’ Perez ultimately lost the Oscar to Anna Paquin in ‘The Piano’. Perez was also nominated for a Golden Globe for that performance.

Perez would go on to earn an Emmy nomination in 2021 for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her role as Megan Briscoe in ‘The Flight Attendant.’

Aside from her work as an actress, Perez has choreographed numerous music videos and concerts for music stars like Janet Jackson, Bobby Brown, and LL Cool J. She has three Emmy nominations (1990, 1992, 1993) for Outstanding Work in Choreography on the show ‘In Living Color.’

Rosie Perez age

Perez is 60 years old. She was born September 6, 1964 in Brooklyn, New York.

Rosie Perez boxing expertise, fandom

Perez has been a boxing fan from a very young age. Although, she was forced to hide her fandom for many years. In a recent interview with Mike Tyson, Perez revealed that she never really expressed her fanaticism ‘because when (Perez) mentioned it (to people), they would say, ‘How can you support a barbaric sport?”

That didn’t stop Perez’s love for boxing though. In fact, Perez felt engrained in boxing from a very young age. In 2018, Perez told the New York Times, ‘It was a cultural thing.’ She added, ‘When I grew up, it seemed like if you were Puerto Rican, you were always watching boxing. We watched boxing and baseball, but boxing just spoke to me in a certain way as a young kid. And it still does.’

Perez could, and still can, often be seen ringside at even smaller boxing events in her home state of New York. She even made an effort to learn to box after experiencing a lot of bullying growing up. ‘I learned how to box because I used to get beat up a lot. And I was scrappy. I would always fight back all the time, even though I would lose,’ she told The Guardian in 2022. Perez still trains to this day, although she does not participate in any fights.

Her love for boxing and expertise in the sport has earned her the nickname ‘The First Lady of Boxing.’

Who is broadcasting Tyson vs. Paul fight with Rosie Perez?

Alongside Perez is Canadian play-by-play commentator and popular combat sports broadcaster Mauro Ranallo as well as former heavyweight champion Roy Jones Jr – an opponent of Tyson’s in a 2020 exhibition match. Tyson’s son, Amir Tyson, will serve as a ringside reporter.

Britis sportscaster Kate Scott will also serve on the broadcast team, operating as the main host of the event. Former boxing champion Andre Ward will be the lead booth analyst, while Ariel Helwani will serve as a reporter.

Reactions to Perez’s commentary

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For the Baltimore Orioles, it was mission accomplished when they altered the dimensions of Camden Yards to move back the left field fences, erect a higher wall and make life more pleasant for pitchers of all handedness before the 2022 season.

In fact, they now acknowledge, they did too good a job.

Orioles executive vice president Mike Elias said Friday that the Orioles will move the left field fences in, ranging from nine to 20 feet, and reduce the height of the now somewhat infamous wall in the left field corner.

Three seasons of data proved that Camden Yards went from a very friendly park for all hitters to a left field set-up that frustrated superstars like the New York Yankees’ Aaron Judge – he called it a “Create-A-Park” and a ‘travesty’ – to the Orioles’ own right-handed sluggers.

In 2021, the last season before the Orioles moved the left field wall back by 26 feet in some spots, and added six feet of height to a barrier affectionately termed “Walltimore,” Camden Yards was a hitter’s haven. It ranked No. 3 in Statcast’s Park Factors, with a 105 rating on a scale where 100 is neutral, and 124 – tied for second – in home runs.

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In 2024? Camden Yards was just the 19th hitter-friendliest park, its 99 rating skewing to pitcher-friendly and its 93 home run rating ranking 20th.

That’s a fairly remarkable shift, especially given that the right-field wall remains a pleasant target for lefty swingers.

Elias said on a video conference call that having a second offseason to adjust will make that corner of the park just right.

“Given the uncertainty of the game, offensive environments, etc., it became apparent to us over three years of lived experience that it was a directionally correct move, but we overcorrected,” says Elias. “It was something we wanted to address as soon as possible and develop a plan to seek a happier medium by 2025.

“Our hope is by pulling the dimensions in a little bit – as little as nine, to 11 to 20 feet – we will be able to come closer to what our original goal was – a neutral playing environment that assists a balanced style of play at a park that was overly friendly, and now is overly skewed.

“We’re seeking a more neutral playing environment, but this is one we still think will assist the pitching environment at Camden Yards, yet be a little less drastic, particularly as it pertains to our right-handed batters.”

Elias said there was no need to formally consult with his righty swingers; he says we “live with them on a daily basis.

“This isn’t the kind of thing we call a meeting for. But the feedback was the extremity and disparity in the park was more of a topic of conversation than we bargained for. It became a distraction in many ways. For our right-handed hitters, left-handers, too, aspects of this were a little severe.”

And while Elias didn’t indicate the switch was made to lure right-handed sluggers – he says pitchers will be equally as miffed – it can’t hurt. The Orioles are expected to pursue Los Angeles Dodgers slugger Teoscar Hernández in free agency, while their own free agent, switch-hitter Anthony Santander, would also benefit from the changes; he hit 44 home runs last year, with a home run every 13.6 at-bats as a left-handed hitter and every 15 at-bats as a righty.

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The federal lawsuit sparked by San Jose State possibly having a transgender woman on its volleyball team ought to terrify everyone.

Not for any of the trumped-up “reasons” cited by the attorneys for Spartans co-captain Brooke Slusser and her co-plaintiffs. Regardless of what she, transphobic activist Riley Gaines and all these other “Save women’s sports!” grifters would have you believe, transgender women are not a threat to women’s sports or the athletes who play them.

What is a threat? The witch hunts this lawsuit, as well as the state bans on transgender women in sports, are inciting.

Buried among the meanness and the misinformation and the petulance in the lawsuit, filed earlier this week against San Jose State, the Mountain West Conference and several administrators, is a section demanding the right to declare open season on anyone suspected of being transgender.

“It has now become a rule violation for a team or school to even ask the MWC or NCAA to investigate the eligibility of a transgender student-athlete or to report concerns about the eligibility of the athlete,” according to the lawsuit.

Well, yes. Because the alternative is to open the door to questioning — loudly and publicly, no doubt — the gender of any woman athlete who doesn’t conform to a white, hetero, cisgender norm. It won’t just be those women who jump higher or run faster, either. It’ll be any woman with short hair or small breasts. Women with more muscular physiques. Women with deeper or huskier voices. Who don’t look “feminine” enough, whatever that means.

Don’t believe it? It’s already happened. Algerian boxer Imane Khelif was terrorized at the Paris Olympics. After South Carolina coach Dawn Staley said at the Final Four that she has no problem with transgender female athletes, the cesspool that is the right-wing internet combed through the Gamecocks roster and theorized about who might be transgender.

“There is no rational basis for a rule that prevents a school from reporting eligibility concerns regarding a student-athlete,” according to the lawsuit.

Oh, really. Being able to scream “Trans!” without consequence gives license to bad actors, the folks who simply can’t accept they’re not that good or, knowing they can’t compete, will try to remove their competition, instead.

Alyssa Sugai, one of the plaintiffs in the new lawsuit, played in 16 of San Jose State’s 29 matches as a walk-on in 2021. Yet she thinks it’s someone else’s fault she didn’t get a scholarship or more playing time the following season. In Utah, some parents were so furious their kids were getting beat that school officials combed through a young girl’s enrollment records to placate them.

Worse than these modern-day inquisitions are the resolution of them. Little girls and young women pulled off the field or court and taken into a locker room to be subjected to a genital check by a doctor of someone else’s choosing. Because there’s no risk of abuse happening there! Parents carrying their kids’ birth certificates to games and practices, just in case they have to be whipped out to satisfy the gender police.

Is this really what we want for our girls and young women? To allow their very being to be questioned by anyone they encounter? To be subjected by some undefinable purity test for femininity?

I doubt Slusser, Sugai, Gaines and all the other women who’ve decided transphobic hysteria is the quickest way to get themselves on Fox News or become a right-wing influencer have imagined this happening to them. Because they look like what a woman is “supposed” to look like — again, whatever that means — they would never be subjected to this kind of humiliation and degradation.  

Ditto for the parents who have been gaslit into believing transgender women athletes are lurking on every sideline, big, manly brutes who will injure their daughters and keep them from playing sports. They can’t imagine their daughters ever being seen as suspect.  

That’s the thing about opening the door to hate and ignorance, though. Eventually it comes for everyone. If this lawsuit is successful, no one’s daughter will be safe.

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Prepare yourself for the possibility of an eight-way tie atop the SEC standings.

It’s not even that hard to imagine. This is all it would take:

First, No. 10 Georgia beats No. 4 Tennessee on Saturday. Second, one of No. 3 Texas and No. 15 Texas A&M loses once before then winning the rivalry game to end November. Then, all of No. 9 Alabama, No. 11 Mississippi, No. 22 LSU and Missouri win out.

And there you have it: An eight-way tie that represents the most chaotic conference race in the history of the Power Four.

In this case, the conference championship game would be a rematch between Alabama and LSU, since the SEC would break the tie by relying on the combined winning percentage of all conference opponents.

This is the kind of stuff we’re dealing with in trying to determine how the Power Four will unfold the rest of the way. With three weeks left, here’s where each conference stands:

ACC

Contenders: No. 13 SMU (5-0), No. 16 Clemson (6-1), No. 12 Miami (5-1), Pittsburgh (3-2).

Miami still has an edge over Clemson despite losing to Georgia Tech. If both teams finish with one loss, the Hurricanes will advance to the ACC championship game by virtue of their win against Louisville. The Tigers lost to the Cardinals earlier this month. That leaves Clemson rooting for Miami to lose to Wake Forest or Syracuse, which would hand the Tigers sole possession of second place.

SMU has a one-game lead on the field with three games left to play: Boston College, Virginia and California. The Mustangs could lose once and remain ahead of Clemson, again because of a win against Louisville.

Pittsburgh is still alive in the ACC hunt, if only by a fingernail. First, the Panthers have to beat Clemson, Louisville and Boston College, the last two on the road. Then, they’d need Miami to lose once or SMU to lose twice. The tiebreaker in the case of this three-way tie would be conference opponents’ winning percentage, a metric that favors the Panthers.

Pittsburgh’s past and future ACC opponents are currently 26-19, well ahead of Miami (18-28) and SMU (18-29).

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Big 12

Contenders: No. 8 Brigham Young (6-0), No. 20 Colorado (5-1), No. 25 Iowa State (4-2), No. 19 Kansas State (4-2), Arizona State (4-2).

BYU has ample room for error with three games remaining in conference play. The Cougars could even lose twice and make the championship game should Kansas State win out, which would eliminate Iowa State and Arizona State. BYU would then play Colorado because of a head-to-head win against K-State.

Colorado is in by winning out against Utah, Kansas and Oklahoma State. The Buffaloes can drop one and meet BYU should Kansas State also lose, negating the Wildcats’ head-to-head tiebreaker. Conversely, the Wildcats need to win out, eliminating Iowa State and Arizona State and have Colorado lose.

Arizona State has sneaked into the conversation and has better odds that you might expect with games ahead against BYU, Kansas State and rival Arizona. Winning out would erase the Wildcats from consideration. If Colorado loses once and both teams are tied for second behind the Cougars, the eventual tiebreaker between the pair would be the record of the next highest-placed common opponent. In this case, the Sun Devils would advance because of a win against Kansas State.

Big Ten

Contenders: No. 1 Oregon (7-0), No. 6 Indiana (7-0), No. 2 Ohio State (5-1), No. 5 Penn State (5-1).

The Big Ten race is the easiest to decode in the Power Four. Oregon is a virtual lock for the championship game ahead of games against Wisconsin and Washington; the Ducks would essentially have to lose both to be eliminated, which is possible but highly unlikely.

Indiana would face the Ducks with a win next weekend against Ohio State. The Hoosiers could even lose to Purdue to end November, since beating the Buckeyes would give them a common-opponent edge over Penn State. OSU would advance with a win against Indiana barring a collapse the following Saturday against Michigan.

Penn State needs help. The Nittany Lions would first need to beat Purdue, Minnesota and Maryland. Next, Ohio State has to beat Indiana but lose to Michigan. That would leave PSU and IU with the same overall record and the same record against common opponents, leaving the Big Ten to break the tie by comparing the combined records of each team’s conference opponents. As of now, Penn State’s conference opponents are a combined 24-34 while Indiana’s are 21-36.

SEC

Contenders: Tennessee (5-1), Texas A&M (5-1), Texas (4-1), Georgia (5-2), Mississippi (4-2), Alabama (4-2), LSU (3-2), Missouri (3-2).

Madness is going to ensue in the SEC and cause pain, aggravation and frustration for everyone involved.

In a perfect world, Tennessee beats Georgia and Vanderbilt and meets the winner of Texas and Texas A&M. If everyone takes care of business elsewhere, that will leave the Volunteers and the Longhorns or Aggies as the only SEC teams with one conference loss. A&M also takes on Auburn while Texas faces Arkansas and Kentucky.

Georgia is in dire straits even with a win against the Volunteers because the Bulldogs don’t own the tiebreaker with Mississippi and Alabama. One path to Atlanta requires winning out while both the Rebels and Crimson Tide lose once. Another requires winning out, one of the Tide and Rebels losing once and Texas losing to the Razorbacks or Wildcats but beating A&M. In that scenario, the Bulldogs owns the head-to-head tiebreaker against the Longhorns and gets the chance to avenge one of this year’s losses.

All Alabama really needs to control its destiny is for Georgia to win on Saturday. In the case where Texas A&M and Texas are in sole ownership of first place and there’s a logjam of two-loss teams, the Crimson Tide rise to the top because of last weekend’s win against LSU and by comparing the combined winning percentage of all conference opponents.

Arkansas might even hold the key to determining the makeup of the SEC championship game. Let’s consider a scenario where Texas wins out and Georgia beats Tennessee, leaving the Longhorns in first place and six teams in a tie for second. If the Razorbacks then beat Missouri in the season finale, LSU would have the best opponents’ winning percentage by a hair ahead of the Crimson Tide.

After months of waiting, the day has finally arrived. Friday night, 58-year-old Mike Tyson returns to the ring for just the second time in 20 years to take on 27-year-old Jake Paul, the YouTuber-turned-boxer looking to gain credibility in the boxing world.

It’s a fight unlike anything we’ve ever seen. And after the weigh-ins got heated with Tyson slapping Paul, the anticipation for this fight has built to heights most people wouldn’t have thought possible.

Before the pair start their bout though, here’s a look at each fighter’s career boxing stats.

Mike Tyson last fight

Mike Tyson’s last official fight came in 2005, a defeat at the hands of Kevin McBride via sixth-round TKO. Since then, Tyson has avoided the ring almost entirely. He returned for an exhibition match in November 2020 against former heavyweight champion Roy Jones Jr.

Most people who witnessed that exhibition bout believe Tyson dominated the fight. However, the contest was ruled a draw.

Jake Paul last fight 

Jake Paul’s most recent fight came earlier this year on July 20. Paul defeated Mike Perry via sixth-round TKO after putting Perry on the floor three times. July 20 was originally supposed to be the date for Tyson vs. Paul; however, Tyson suffered an ulcer flare-up just before the date, pushing the match back to Nov. 15.

Mike Tyson record, results and history

Mike Tyson career record: 50-6 (44 KOs), with 2 no-contests

At 20 years and 4 months old, Mike Tyson became the youngest heavyweight champion in boxing history in 1986 after defeating Trevor Berbick. Tyson’s record still stands to this day.

Tyson started his career with a 37-0 record with 33 knockouts. Tyson’s first loss came in shocking fashion to Buster Douglas in 1990. After a nearly three-year prison sentence, Tyson returned to boxing in 1995 and won four straight fights, before losing back-to-back bouts against Evander Holyfield. Following those defeats, Tyson fought just 10 more times before retiring. He went 5-3 with two no-contests in that span.

Jake Paul record, results and history

Jake Paul career record: 10-1 (7 KOs)

Paul’s professional boxing career began in January 2020 with a win over Ali Eson Gib. Since then, Paul has had a plethora of fights against former NBA players and former MMA fighters, including well-respected fighters like Anderson Silva and Ben Askren. Although neither of those fighters are known for their prowess in boxing.

Paul’s only loss came on Feb. 26, 2023 against Tommy Fury. Fury won by split-decision. Since then, Paul has won each of his last four fights.

Tyson and Paul measurements:

Mike Tyson:

Height: 5’10’
Weight: 228.4 pounds
Reach: 71 inches

Jake Paul:

Height: 6’1′
Weight: 227.2 pounds
Reach: 76 inches

How to watch Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson:

Date: Friday, Nov. 15
Location: AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas
Time: 5:30 p.m. ET (preliminary card); 8 p.m. ET (main card)
TV: Not available on television
Streaming: Netflix

Mike Tyson and Jake Paul will add another notable event to their resumes Friday night when the two meet for a fight on Netflix.

With two famous names meeting in the ring, the fight is expected to do well financially.

The fight was originally scheduled for July 20, 2024, but was postponed in May after Tyson had an “ulcer flareup.’ The added build-up and anticipation for the fight may have only upped the interest as the participants are expected to make at least $20 million from the fight.

The fight will take place at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, which can hold upwards of 80,000 people. Tickets were found online earlier this week for as low as $44 per ticket when bought as a pair. The most expensive tickets were listed for as much as $447 on ticket websites.

How much is Mike Tyson worth?

Tyson had reportedly earned well over $300 million as a professional fighter in the ring but had filed for bankruptcy back in 2003. Tyson’s last boxing victory came in 2003 against Clifford Etienne. Tyson’s fight on Friday will be just his third since that victory, having lost to Danny Williams in 2004 and Kevin McBride in 2005.

While his current net worth isn’t widely available, the website Celebrity Net Worth estimates it to be $10 million. 

How much is Jake Paul worth?

Paul has taken a different path to superstardom. He became a public figure after posting videos on Vine, a since-discontinued video platform in 2013 and reached 5.3 million followers and two billion views. 

He also created a YouTube channel that led him to become one of the platform’s top creators in recent years. He is also the brother of internet personality and WWE wrestler Logan Paul. 

Jake Paul started his boxing career in 2018 and has a 10-1 record with victories over MMA stars Nate Diaz, Anderson Silva and Tyron Woodley. His only loss came against Tommy Fury in 2023. Paul’s estimated net worth is $80 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth.