163 points

I don’t see how Paul wins here at all. Either he beats up a 60 year old man or gets beat by a 60 year old man. There’s no way to look good in this.

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145 points

He won 40 mil and Mike won 20 mil.

It was dumb, we paid attention, Tyson cashed in. Nobody was hurt. They both won.

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53 points

Yeah, but I would have really appreciated it if Paul was hit KO. Would have made everything just a bit nicer.

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24 points

Oh yeah, it would have.

I think if tyson won, they’d just get him to keep fighting weird fights.

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13 points

Yes, same reason I would’ve liked GOT to have a proper final season. It’s for the story telling.

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Well I think it’s pretty fair to say a lot of people were tuning in to see him get his ass beat. He’s made a career out of being a piece of shit that people want to see get knocked out. So he wins by us all hating him because if we’re hating him we’re paying attention to him.

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11 points

This wasn’t the first boxing match for either of them; their brains are finely pureed already. As proof: they both agreed to this fight.

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4 points

You can have a little bit of CTE, as a treat.

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1 point

True. I guess i was thinking sprained ankle or something

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5 points

Money doesn’t make him any less a loser.

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19 points

Meh it’s the 60 year old man’s decision to fight. Your argument is in the same vein as “you can’t fight against a woman”. If they want it, so be it.

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That’s not a fair comparison, age matters, most people don’t get smarter or stronger when they grow old. More fair comparison would be “you can’t fight against a child”, some children are quite strong for their age, as Mike definitely is for his age, and some eager children would surely want to fight against a professional in his prime. But there’s no point for said professional to fight them apart from a show match, and you don’t destroy children or elders in a show match even of you can.

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Other then the fact of “money” I don’t see why Tyson did this. He’s a fuckin legend and he knows he’s better then this hothead youtuber. Paul his boxing pants are worth 1million because it’s full of diamonds. How far from reality do you want to live. But whatever.

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It’s not unheard of for boxers to get in the ring after their prime for exhibition matches. Why wouldn’t they want to get more out of their career

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I wouldn’t fight a woman just because she wants it. I would feel horrible beating her up.

You have to understand that just because someone wants something, it doesn’t mean they are thinking straight. You shouldn’t take advantage of that.

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5 points

Bold of you to assume that you wouldn’t be the one being beat up.

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If anyone actually watched the whole thing, Tyson came out hot and Paul had a moment of fear. Then old man got hit a few times and looked like he was about to wobble to the ground.

I thought it was gonna be fake and scripted. And most of it was. But, the actual fight? Mike came out hot and it was pretty clear Paul could have taken him out a number of times but didn’t. He didn’t want to hurt him.

Look, I don’t like Jake Paul or Mike Tyson. But, it was a media event. It wasn’t “rigged”

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But, it was a media event. It wasn’t “rigged”

You could gamble on it, which means there was money to be made courting suckers.

I’m sure the lion’s share of “rigged” proclamations were coming from folks who got baited into bad bets.

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31 points

I think Tyson had the power in his arms to do some damage but he just did not have the speed to get in at all after 2 rounds. And he’d leave himself open if he tried.

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15 points

After the 3rd he couldn’t stance, he was flat on his feet.

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Thanks for an actually smart summary. I only watched the first few rounds, then skipped to the end, but I have the same impression.

Paul was using his head, not wanting kill a 58 yrs old sport legend accidentally. Also, he stayed in distance, to avoid accidentally walking into a stronger punch from Tyson’s shorter arms. The match we have seen is the logical result of these factors, no scripting needed.

Paul and Tyson made 40 and 20 million from this, 120 million ppl watched live on Netflix, so now the phones will not stop ringing at Paul’s promotion agency to make fights like these happen in the future, as I bet a lot of boxers would love to make money like Tyson did.

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Thanks for the summary, I was wondering how it went down.

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Best summary I’ve read.

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88 points

The same people who took this seriously are the same people who mock wrestling fans. And wrestling fans could see through this.

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36 points

What about Mexican wrestling fans? Since they are wearing masks it might be a bit harder for them to see through this.

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18 points

You buffoon. Those masks have X-ray. They saw better.

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21 points

Wrestling fans know good kayfabe when they see it.

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58 points

Fake News, you couldn’t watch the fight on Netflix it was stills between buffers.

But for real who expect an out of form 60yo to do anything but loose.

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39 points

Things do get looser as you get older

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4 points

The only way we watched is on my wife’s Ipad and it was because we weren’t watching live. We were about 10 minutes behind the live stream. I tried to join on my Google TV and Netflix would crash.

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3 points

Watched it outside of USA. Buffered once between rounds. Was fine.

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Also outside USA and stream didn’t work on PC at all starting around the final undercard fight. It kinda worked on my phone for some reason but ended up just finding a pirate stream to continue watching on my computer.

Wasn’t until the post fight commentary that my official stream started working again

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58 points

So… uh… what am I looking at here? What’s this pic supposed to show? I just see two guys in a boxing ring.

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32 points

It’s clickbait. I bet the article has 5 screenshots of twitter comments, and paraphrases them in 10 paragraphs, while also sharing a lot irrelevant info and linking other articles abut the match.

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20 points

the rules of boxing:

who is Jake Paul?

who is Mike Tyson?

why is this fight relevant?

definition and etymology of the word ‘faked’

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