8mo ago

Jake Paul beats Mike Tyson in manufactured mismatch as Father Time comes calling

www.theguardian.com

Summary

Jake Paul defeated 58-year-old Mike Tyson in an eight-round boxing match, with unanimous scores of 79-73 and 80-72.

The bout, widely criticized as a “stunted show,” highlighted Tyson’s physical decline, including issues with sciatica, a stomach ulcer, and knee problems.

Tyson, once a feared heavyweight champion, struggled to compete, while Paul’s performance lacked effort and authenticity.

Fans, initially supportive of Tyson, grew disenchanted, booing by the final rounds.

Tyson dismissed the fight’s significance beforehand, rejecting the concept of legacy as meaningless. The event was seen as a cynical, contrived spectacle.

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The dude is 58 and in better shape than the vast majority of people his age and he just made 20 millions.
He won
- Please forget that I raped that woman as I collect my millions...
  EDIT: People so in-love with the persona or work of Tyson that they'll disregard the unforgivable. That he still denies to this day, even with the evidence. That says more about you than it does this rich celebrity...
- The only person who lacks dignity here is the guy challenging someone twice his age to a boxing match.
  
  Are you talking about that guy that is almost as well known for biting off Hollyfield's ear as he is for his boxing prowess losing dignity from making 20 millions dollars playing the sport that he loves regardless of the effort?
  
  Talking about dignity when it's a sport where adult men punching each other in the face for entertainment
  
  Tyson can punch me up for 16 minutes straight, take whatever of my dignity he wants for himself, and I'd be cool with even 10 million.
  The world isn't going to shit because people are willing to entertain others for serious money.
  
  How much did you lose?
  
  I'm sure he's weeping into his silk sheets right now from the indignity of the whole affair. Poor baby.
  
  I'm not the OP, and I don't much care about money so long as I have enough to be relatively comfortable, but I also don't really feel as if I understand the concept of dignity. Why is it meaningful?
  
  How else do you think Tyson could make 20 million?
The only thing real in this conflict was the paychecks at the end.
- And the buffering
  
  Oh boy did we buffer.
  We buffered like it was 1999.
  
  I never had it buffer once on me. Pirate IPTV > paying for a streaming svc.
Now I can go back to never thinking about Jake Paul again.
- Until he runs for office or Trump puts him in his cabinet.
  
  Look, I don't believe in manifesting, but I still think we should be a little cautious
  
  There is a non-zero chance of this happening, unfortunately.
  
  The last decade or so has really taught me to avoid saying the words "that will never happen."
  
  Oh he'll definitely be President at some point, that's a given.
- Next week he's digging up Muhammad Ali for Disney+.
  
  I saw hat flesh gits too!
Young rapist defeats old rapist in "which rapist can punch harder" contest.
- which rapist can punch more
  ftfy
  
  I'll take your word for it. I've never really understood the whole idea of boxing being entertaining in the first place.
  
  Which rapist can haphazardly throw an occasional swing in the vague direction of their opponent, at least half the time at least being close enough to theoretically connect.
  Ftfy.
- Wasn't Mikey Boi found innocent?
  
  No. He went to prison.
Fuck this year is disappointing.
The main event really undercut the earlier fights.
Serrano vs Taylor was fucking amazing. Despite Taylor’s dirty moves, she couldn’t keep Serrano at bay for a single second. I can’t believe the judges robbed her of the win.
- Serrano has earned my respect. I'm not a regular fan of the sport and this is the first time I've watched a fight in over 20 years. How she didn't get the W is beyond me. Her trainer was dropping bombs in the post match interview though, I wouldn't fuck with that dude.
- All 3 of the opening fights were amazing.
  
  I'd argue the 1st one was weak where the winner couldn't even punch with his left hand. Just kinda swatted like a kitten. The title card just sucked so bad you might've lowered your standards to say it was amazing.
- That fight was exceptional and the brow cut was so hard to watch. If the 3rd match wasn't there the whole thing would've been a waste of time as a casual watcher. 2nd match was good but wouldn't have pulled my attention by itself. 1st one seemed bush league.
I thought it was cute all the people saying Mike was going to murder him. As a 45 year old boxer I am pretty exhausted after 3 minutes. 5 rounds later and I'm ready for a nice cup of tea in an armchair sitting by the window. Time catches up to us all.
- Mike though? How is there any universe where this wasn't scripted
  
  In this universe he is nearly 60 and his opponent was in his 20s. Don't get me wrong, I still wouldn't fight Tyson because I'm 40 and in, at best, mediocre shape but we can acknowledge that he is well past his prime.
  
  No shit, all these social media showmatches are just grifts. Anyone who thinks they are real fights are loopy.
  
  From my perspective, he was being way too careful to avoid hurting himself. At 58 you're not going to recover as well, and dude has a bad knee which is a major disadvantage in boxing.
  Plus, after not really boxing for 20 years, it's perfectly believable that he lost his edge.
  
  Given that Mike just kinda stood and let Jake swing at him after two rounds of Mike trying to "make it look convincing", yeah no, this was scripted as all hell.
  
  I don't think it was necessarily scripted, but it wasn't raw boxing. Nor could it be, given the contenders. Once Tyson ran out of gas, any other boxer would've gone for the KO, while Paul just kinda danced around to drag out the latter rounds. It was clearly an exhibition to get them both paid, not a real match.
Wish he'd fight young competitive boxers now. It's wild how much time catches up to a human.
- I think that would be even less of a worthy accomplishment for any currently fit athletes. At this point it's like dunking on a crippled kid then bragging about being the best in your school.
- He fought a young competitive boxer once and lost so awfully he never tried again. His career is entirely based on beating up geriatric boxers. He is not out there boxing sub 16 kids because they won't let him. He would definitely punch kids in the face if allowed to.
I actually saw this fight. I knew they'd rig it for Jake Paul just for the headline.... but I was hoping they'd be less obvious about it.
Mike Tyson basically just stood there doing nothing while Jake Paul tried to hug him, and while doing this "hug it out" routine wore himself out in the process...... Dude looked like he was melting into a puddle of sweat while Mike Tyson just kinda no-sold the farce.
I'm tired of the biggest douches in the world beating talented people in fixed fights...
- I'm honestly surprised anyone thought it wouldn't go this way.
  Anyone who knows how big of a piece of shit Jake Paul is knew this was going to happen.
  Jake Paul is a piece of shit and so is his brother Logan.
I'm glad no one got hurt. The other fights on the card were better. Main event was boring and predictable. Tyson was slow and off balance. Paul threw and landed 2x the punches Tyson did. Not a match that would convince a non fan that there is something more to the sport than punching.
- I was really hoping to see Jake Paul get crippled.
  
  We all were
- I learned it involves a lot of homoerotic hugging as well
Why we give so much attention to shit like this
Hopefully after a bit more CTE Jake Paul will just kill himself. Maybe we can watch that live on Netflix too
- Jake Paul's a fucking tool, but it's pretty fucked up to wish a horrible brain disease on someone my guy...
  
  People can always change and the one thing the internet never seems able to do is forgive. To the point where they’ll wish death on people before they’ll allow them to grow
- Damn dude! What did he do to you?
  
  He is a rapist, so I wouldn't lose any sleep over his self inflicted health issues.
Someone beat a rapist. Yay.
- Surprise! It was another rapist.
  
  And lemmy celebrates whichever rapist they favour. Sick.

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