JAKE PAUL was left in a race to lose to TWO STONE after his fight with Mike Tyson was cancelled.
The YouTuber-turned-boxer was supposed to make his heavyweight debut against Tyson on July 20.
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And he grew to 238 pounds – the equivalent of 17 STONE – in training for the controversial clash.
But disaster struck when Tyson, 58, was forced to pull out as a health precaution, with the fight rescheduled for November 15.
Paul, 27, opted to fight replacement Mike Perry, 32, at the 14-pound 200-pound cruiserweight limit.
That left him and strength and conditioning coach Larry Wade with the task of transferring the massive amount of weight with just five weeks to spare.
Wade said Most valuable promotions: “Jake weighed about 238 pounds.
“And we were looking at five weeks and I asked him what weight class, I thought, ‘Will we be 210, maybe?’
“And he said, ‘200.’ So we had to lose 38 pounds in five weeks. We lost 38 pounds in five weeks.”
Paul dropped Perry three times en route to a sixth-round stoppage and moves on to his postponed fight with Tyson.
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And Wade told how he took the American to the cruiserweight limit in just over a month.
He said: “The whole training has changed.
“From gaining mass and gaining more muscle and getting stronger to leaning over, trying to lose a little bit of fat and at the same time a little bit of muscle because it’s hard to separate the two.
“We reached the finish line and that’s what true professionals know how to do.”
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