Mike Tyson on Saturday opened up about a health scare he suffered just months before his highly anticipated fight against YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul. “I almost died in June,” wrote Tyson in a post on X.

The quality of the Tyson-Paul fight was put into stark focus by its co-main event which proceeded it, as Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano produced a classic bout with Taylor retaining her undisputed world light-welterweight champion status in controversial fashion.

Mike Tyson shared on Nov. 16 — one day after he lost to Jake Paul in a boxing match — that he underwent eight blood transfusions and 'lost half my blood and 25lbs in hospital' over the summer.