Former host of “The View” Rosie Perez was a part of Netflix’s broadcast sales space for its Mike Tyson vs. Jake Paul battle on Friday.
Perez is an actress who served because the grand marshal for the Worldwide Boxing Corridor of Fame parade in 2013. Amongst some, she holds the nickname “the First Woman of Boxing.”
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“I realized tips on how to field as a result of I used to get beat up lots. And I used to be scrappy. I’d all the time battle again on a regular basis, although I’d lose,” she advised The Guardian in 2022.
Perez was additionally a short lived host on ABC’s “The View” earlier this yr and contributed ideas concerning the current election a number of instances, and sometimes voiced opposition to President-elect Donald Trump.
Throughout an episode on October 14, Perez criticized Trump’s response to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico in 2017.
“He blocked federal funding to go down there, he threw paper towels at us!” Perez stated.
She additionally pointed to Latino unemployment ranges below Trump’s administration and to studies that Trump had despatched COVID-19 assessments to Russia.
“Please go to the polls and vote for Kamala Harris,” Perez stated whereas claiming to handle Latino voters.
After Trump’s Oct. 27 rally at Madison Sq. Backyard, Perez was one of many many liberal voices to criticize a comedy routine by Tony Hinchcliffe, who jokingly referred to Puerto Rico as a “floating island of rubbish.”
“I used to be indignant, I used to be damage” Perez stated in response throughout an interview on MSNBC on Oct. 31. “However I’ve to inform you, they picked on the unsuitable folks.”
“We do not take it, we do not take it sitting down . . . I feel lots of people are going to go to the polls.”
Trump went on to win the Electoral School and common vote, whereas incomes the most important proportion of Latino voters for a Republican candidate within the celebration’s trendy period.
Perez made a put up on Instagram on Nov. 6 acknowledging Trump’s electoral win, with a picture of a quote by famed poet Toni Morrison. Perez acknowledged that many have been “upset and saddened” concerning the outcomes however stated People “should respect it if we actually consider in democracy.”
However since then, the one exercise on any of Perez’s social media channels has been all about boxing. Now she is within the sales space to place her political variations with Paul and Tyson apart to broadcast one of many largest occasions in sports activities historical past.
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Rosie Perez attends the world premiere of Apple’s “Earlier than” collection on the Museum of Trendy Artwork on October 16, 2024, in New York Metropolis. (Michael Loccisano/WireImage)
Paul and Tyson are vocal Trump supporters, with Tyson’s connection relationship again to his private friendship with Trump throughout the prime of the boxer’s profession. Tyson endorsed Trump throughout his first presidential run in 2016, confirming it in an interview with HuffPost Life in October of that yr.
“He ought to be president of america. That is what he ought to be… Why are folks mad on the folks? As a result of that is who the folks need to be president,” Tyson stated. “Let’s strive one thing new. Let’s run America like a enterprise, the place no colours matter. Whoever can do the job, will get the job.”
Paul endorsed Trump in a video the place he made a passionate plea to his followers to vote for the previous president on Oct. 31.
“Do the correct factor, vote for Donald Trump. Not as a result of I stated so, not as a result of Beyoncé stated so, however as a result of it’s what’s proper. . . . Please, go, for the love of God, go train your proper to vote on my behalf and vote for Donald Trump on this election. America is dependent upon it,” Paul stated.
“Democrats have been in energy for 12 of the final 16 years. So, if we aren’t proud of the present political state, financial state, environmental state, then who’s responsible?”
However that hasn’t prompted Perez from saying something however optimistic and thrilling issues concerning the boxers and their hyped battle.
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Perez even sat right down to do an interview with Tyson for Interview Journal, the place Tyson revealed that he prevented AIDS regardless of having intercourse with a lady who additionally had the illness.
Perez thanked Tyson for sitting down together with her to inform her these particulars in an X put up on Tuesday.
“TY for the chance @InterviewMag and particular due to @MikeTyson I had a blast chopping it up with you. That toad s–t is loopy although,” Perez wrote with a string of coronary heart emojis, a laughing emoji and a blushing emoji.
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