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OT: Iron Mike Tyson vs Jake Paul
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I guess the fact that Netflix was hosting a huge boxing event and drawing in many new fans to the sport, it felt a bit misleading to keep stressing Tyson/Paul 8:00 PM or whatever it was.
So you are right but even I was surprised at how definite some of those promos were that it started ~8 PM.
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It was more sad for me. watching him move around like that actually made me feel old.
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I'm not trying to defend anyone here and I think we all know that at 58 years old, Iron Mike wasn't going to do anything impressive. I thought he might be able to get some power punches in. I didn't watch so I don't know. We knew it wasn't going to be real boxing.
In sports we expect teams to let up when the game is over. Sportsmanship. Winning the fight in real boxing isn't enough, we want to see a knock-out.
"There was a point where he (Tyson) was not engaging back, I could just tell his age was showing a little bit.
"That violence war thing... that went away as the rounds went on.
"I tried to give the best fight I possibly could.
"When someone's just surviving in the ring, it's hard to make it exciting.
"I don't care what people have to say. It is what it is."
"I'm sorry I didn't knock him out.
"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."
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In sports we expect teams to let up when the game is over. Sportsmanship. Winning the fight in real boxing isn't enough, we want to see a knock-out.
"There was a point where he (Tyson) was not engaging back, I could just tell his age was showing a little bit.
"That violence war thing... that went away as the rounds went on.
"I tried to give the best fight I possibly could.
"When someone's just surviving in the ring, it's hard to make it exciting.
"I don't care what people have to say. It is what it is."
"I'm sorry I didn't knock him out.
"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."
Jake Paul issues apology over Mike Tyson win as he explains the fight 'was just different'
Jake Paul has reflected on his controversial fight with Mike Tyson
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I'm not trying to defend anyone here and I think we all know that at 58 years old, Iron Mike wasn't going to do anything impressive. I thought he might be able to get some power punches in. I didn't watch so I don't know. We knew it wasn't going to be real boxing.
In sports we expect teams to let up when the game is over. Sportsmanship. Winning the fight in real boxing isn't enough, we want to see a knock-out.
"There was a point where he (Tyson) was not engaging back, I could just tell his age was showing a little bit.
"That violence war thing... that went away as the rounds went on.
"I tried to give the best fight I possibly could.
"When someone's just surviving in the ring, it's hard to make it exciting.
"I don't care what people have to say. It is what it is."
"I'm sorry I didn't knock him out.
"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."
Jake Paul issues apology over Mike Tyson win as he explains the fight 'was just different'
Jake Paul has reflected on his controversial fight with Mike Tyson
I don't blame him for not KO'ing an old man. I blame him being cpmplicit in embarrassing the entire sport of boxing twice a year.
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The places I looked up all said main card starts at 8 pm with Paul / Tyson likely at 10/11. The main fight in UFC is barely ever on before midnight
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I'm an average athlete.
At 48 I was three years removed from playing QB in our annual geezers vs younguns T-day game, and winning.
At 58 I was three years shy of an ACL, an MCL, a fractured meniscus, bone chips, and arthritis in both knees due to playing lob pitch softball. Oh, and plantar fasciitis too.
Some terrific athletes have played pro sports into their 40s. Nobody does past 50.
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Gordie Howe had 41 points for the Whalers in his final NHL season, he was 51.
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Darrell Green reportedly could still fly in the 40 yard dash into his 50s
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Texas gonna be Texas is my guess how it was sanctioned. I'm just surprised they didn't have a live rattlesnake in the ring during the fight to spice things up.
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True. I hear ya. And I will admit nowadays when they say somethings gonna start sports wise, It usually means within 20 minutes- max /baseball playoffs ,NFL kick offs, NBA etc… usually do start fairly close to the time whereas back in the day that was long pregames and lead-ins
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Why blame him. Give him credit for doing an awesome fleece job. Blame all the suckers that paid him. It's a free country after all.
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Spot on stock up 2.8% this week. No one really talking about the horrible streaming experience. They are probably working on fight #2. I would love to see Paul fight Canelo, he (Paul) just might be reaching a bit in wanting to fight a real fighter who is under 40 yrs old.
If someone watched for 5 seconds did they count you?
Netflix says 60M households watched Paul-Tyson
Netflix says 60 million households tuned in live to watch Jake Paul's unanimous decision win over Mike Tyson, while 50 million watched Katie Taylor retain her undisputed women's lightweight championship over Amanda Serrano.www.espn.com
then they counted me a couple dozen times because that's how many times I had to login in order to watch even five seconds.
I don't know anybody who took this fight seriously, they just wanted to watch a train wreck.
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Reaching a bit is an understatement. Put aside that Canelo has fought as high as 175 lbs. and Paul just weighed in at north of 220 lbs., Canelo still dog walks him even in the decline in his career at whatever weight Paul wants to fight at.
Paul should stay in boxing as a promoter and if he wants to do his side show fights on those cards that is fine, but market it as just that. If he is serious about becoming a world champion like he says he should start fighting current active boxers and work his way up the ranks like everybody else does. The thing is, he is not serious about that. Real champions, Dubois (200+ lbs) and Beterbiev (175 lbs) have already called him out on this after the Tyson fight offering a chance to fight for a world title, to which Paul has laughed it off. Paul knows what would happen if he actually got in the ring with a real boxer right now.
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You would be wrong. My cardio is dreadful. I get winded walking up 1 flight of stairs