Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson is finally set to take place on Friday night.

The fight, which was originally scheduled to take place in July, was postponed after Tyson suffered an ulcer flare-up.

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Now, a few months later, the controversial event is this is happening for real.

There will be a age gap of 31 years between the two fighters, and concerns were raised that Tyson could suffer a damaging defeat.

However, in an intriguing Instagram post, former undisputed heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis posted his own thoughts on the fight.

He said in his caption, accompanied by a game simulation of the fight: “So I hear Mike Tyson we will fight Jake Paul. I don’t really know how it’s going to go, but it might look something like this.”

The video then shows Paul and Tyson coming face to face in a simulation using the CFU game with the couple fighting bizarrely in the octagon.

Tyson comes out of the traps and lands a booming right hand that sends Paul crashing to the canvas in the first punch of the clash.

It took literally seconds for Paul’s head to bounce off the canvas, and Tyson had his hand raised in victory after a very brutal knockout.

This scenario seems highly unlikely given it would require a record-breaking stoppage, but Tyson has shown in training footage that he still possesses his ferocious power.

Many believe that Paul will have the upper hand in the fight despite the lack of experience, purely due to his condition and age.

However, in reality, no one really knows what to expect.

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Former world champion George Groves made a particularly strange prediction.

Groves insisted a bizarre ending to the fight could happen, similar to how Ben Whittakerthe recent incident where he flew over the first ropes in a draw with Liam Cameron.

“Over the ropes, yeah, maybe, who knows honestly? (Anything can happen),” he told Best Offshore Sportsbooks.

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“If you look at Tyson’s fights, it was always just a fast start, pedal to the metal, boom. He was never there to win points, was he?

“So why would he change now? He must know that he is dangerous from the start and that he probably won’t back down until the end.

“Two minute rounds will suit him because he rests a minute quicker than usual.

“14 oz gloves, you can get some bad 14s. We’ll see which ones they show up with.

“I think you have to be a tough man (to train Tyson) and guys from a mixed martial arts background usually have very clever, old-school, unconventional methods, and they’re usually tough guys, so I guess that’s what Tyson learned in.

“He wants to be fast, he wants to be powerful, but he also wants to be tough, so maybe that’s what we’ll see.”

Tyson has not fought professionally since 2005, when he lost to Kevin McBride and was nothing more than a shadow of himself.

At the time, his life was spiraling out of control due to alcohol and drug use and he admitted he no longer had the heart for boxing.

Since then, he has turned his life around and even made a comeback of sorts in 2020, against Roy Jones Jr which ended in a draw.

Jones Jr will be on hand on Friday to offer his expert opinion as part of an all-star lineup including Andre Ward, host Kate Scott (formerly Abdo) and Tyron Woodley, who Paul knocked out in their fight.

Paul actually fought on the Tyson vs. Jones Jr undercard where he made light work from former NBA star Nate Robinson.

This test – his 12th as a professional – will be unlike any other.

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