Muhammad Ali would have been mortified with Jake Paul vs Mike Tyson

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The late Muhammed Ali would have been 'mortified' to see what a 58-year-old Mike Tyson earned to lose to 27-year-old Jake Paul in Texas on Friday.

Tyson has not revealed any figure, it has been reported that he would be pocketing in the range of $20million (£15.77m) for fighting eight two-minute rounds.

Paul, meanwhile, was said to earn $40m (£31.55) from the fight against Iron Mike, who last fought in a professional boxing fight 19 years ago. "Boxers didn't make money, like you know, Tyson's making," Rasheda Ali Walsh, Ali's daughter, told Fox News' Neil Cavuto. "And daddy would have been excited he made that kind of money." READ MORE: Mike Tyson reveals he 'almost died' before Jake Paul fight on Netflix READ MORE: Jake Paul's bizarre 'marriage' to famous ex and his Olympian girlfriend Ali - born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. - would have been excited to an extent, however. "Daddy would have been mortified," she continued. "Because back then, boxers didn't really make that much.

They were fighting for their lives, and I think as my dad started to make boxing more entertaining, that's when people came on board and how boxers started to, after my dad, make a lot of money." Ali's biggest payday came at the end of his career when he took home $7.9m (£6.23m) for his defeat to Larry Holmes in 1980.