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PaperclipPerfector  5d ago (text post)   1893 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for November 8, 2024

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So the Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson fight is tonight next friday.

I'd like everyone who's watching to take some time to watch Mike Tyson Mysteries, a four season cartoon Tyson did.

It features Norm MacDonald as a talking pigeon and Jim Rash as a victorian ghost.

Paul vs. Tyson is nothing more than a money grab. Two things will happen: Paul will lose to keep up Tyson's reputation (and inflate his own just to say he fought one of the most famous boxers ever) or the fight will end in a stalemate. Regardless, both will walk away with a massive payday, which is all what boxing has become nowadays.

My vote is for stalemate. I had the misfortune of paying for the Tyson–Roy Jones, Jr. fight a couple years back, and it was the stupidest fight I've ever seen (and in today's world of boxing that says a lot). Tyson didn't look like he was even interested in winning, and in the end he said the important thing was the money it raised for his charity. Jake Paul was on an undercard and he looked like he was just flailing wildly, but I believe he won his fight against a retired NBA player. I'm of the opinion that Tyson is one of the most overrated boxers in history. He came up at a time when their wasn't any real competition (Trevor Berbick? Michael Spinks?!) and he was totally reliant on being able to knock a guy out early. When that didn't happen he was completely out of his element. The whole Evander Holyfield ear biting thing is a direct result of how he couldn't hang when he was losing.

Tyson–Roy Jones, Jr. fight

That wasn't a fight, it was an exhibition. It didn't count toward anyone's record and they literally could have had Hulk Hogan run in and hit Mike with a folding chair if they wanted. Evander Holyfield once had an exhibition against Mitt Romney. Exhibitions are fake and any resemblance they bear to actual fights is incidental. In short, you got fleeced.

On the other hand, this Jake Paul thing is actually a sanctioned boxing match. It's going on their records. Either Jake carries or we watch an old man get his ass beat.

I think it's next Friday.

Jake Paul manages to do his can crushing in fun and exciting ways by fighting old people who used to be good, MMA fighters who can't actually box as well as you'd expect Though now that he's lost his 0 (Honestly I fucking hate how Boxers value the "undefeated" mantle so much it doesn't mean much other than you ducked good competition) he seems to be more willing to fight real boxers.

Also isn't it next week?

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