Jake Paul compares Mike Tyson's power to hardest puncher he has faced

Jake Paul has claimed is not the hardest puncher he has faced, with the YouTuber-turned-boxer naming as the opponent who has hit him the hardest.

Paul in what was the 58-year-old's first professional fight since a 2005 defeat to Kevin McBride. Tyson across eight two-minute rounds and says none of the shots landed clean.

And speaking on his podcast, , the 27-year-old claimed that the only man to have ever beaten him actually hits harder than Tyson. "I would say Tommy Fury [hit hardest] because it's the shots you don't see," Paul explained.

"Tommy was a little tricky and what I mean by that is if you see the punch coming, you can prepare for it. If you're going into something and you can't see it and then all of a sudden you get hit, that's when it hurts.

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"Tommy was more tricky with that, but Mike's punches I could see coming. He was strong, but he didn't land anything clean. So I honestly didn't feel Mike Tyson's full power, but that's good. You don't want to.

"I was just moving, staying elusive and the only thing he was kind of landing was that hook but I just kept my hand up." During the podcast, Paul also like he had vowed to do ahead of the fight.

"I'm sorry I didn't knock him out," he said. "After I'd seen him tired I didn't want to put too much hurt on him, but I wanted the fans to get a good experience. But there was a point where my aggression and violence went away when I wasn't getting hit. I love Mike."

Paul also revealed he plans to win a championship within the next two years. "I think it could happen in the next 24 months," he said. "I truly, truly believe in my skills and my ability and my power. And the cruiserweight division is seemingly open for the taking on that timeline."

Paul has an 11-1 record as a professional boxer and claimed his fight with Tyson attracted a "record breaking" audience of 60million households, despite fans being left unhappy after the .

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