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.
The dude is 58 and in better shape than the vast majority of people his age and he just made 20 millions.
He won
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The only person who lacks dignity here is the guy challenging someone twice his age to a boxing match.
Nah they probably sat together and said… we can make bank… let’s do this and give people a good show… And then they did the whole shebang and gave people a nice performance that cost next to nothing to produce and pocketed the rest. Pretty clever.
Jake Paul knows some people pay to see Tyson beat the anot out of him, others hate watch him and he has fans apparently.
It’s not clever at all. It’s blatantly transparent and only a moron would watch it.
Or people that don’t know any of the drama and just wanted to see Tyson do something one last time. The uninformed do thoughtless shit all the time.
It definitely helped that it was on Netflix. That was the difference, at least for me. There is absolutely no way in hell I would’ve paid for a PPV of that, but given that my wife already has Netflix, it was more of an “eh, why not” type of thing.
Taylor vs Serrano was 100% worth it, that was rad.
I dunno mate, reading all these comments instead of doing literally anything else is starting to make me question my own dignity…
The match was close despite the age difference and also the difference in the level of class both before and after the fight was staggering.
Jake Paul made a fool of himself.
If by close you mean Mike just stood there like someone unplugged Player 2’s controller while he wasn’t look, yeah…
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
Also historically one of the most flagrantly corrupt sports in the world, up next to FIFA
How will kids be able to look up to Mike Tyson after this??
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.
I’ll take a million and he can bite the tip of my ear off too.
My coworkers and I were discussing before the fight how much it would take to get us in the ring with Tyson. $100k seemed to be the consensus. After seeing that fight, I’d do it for $1,000.
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.
How else do you think Tyson could make 20 million?
He’s not losing money via his cannabis business.
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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.
You just reminded me of an awful joke my mom made many times about partying like it’s 1999 which I’m sure you’re referencing. Many times I asked her what our plans were and she would start singing that line in cringier and cringier ways that I groaned more and more as a kid, teenager, and adult. She passed unexpectedly a few years back.
All that to say, thanks for the rare reference I haven’t heard since, and I internally groaned again. I hope you have people to groan about it like I do you cheeky devil.
Now I can go back to never thinking about Jake Paul again.
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.
Skilled athletes are entertaining to watch. Guys that know how fight and do it well, at least. It can be a highly technical, highly skilled competition. Some people are just there to watch two adults beat the piss out of each other. Which, to be fair, is how the sport started.
Same. Even the match before with the girls seemed like it was an incredible fight for boxing, and it was still just as entertaining as a rock ‘em sock ‘em robot game.
Back in the 70s and early 80s boxing was incredible. Ali was still a contender and Spinx, Fraser, Sugar Ray, Marvelous Marvin, Holmes and Durán lit up their weight classes like a Christmas tree.
Then Tyson entered the sphere and blew the doors off. He was fucking amazing to watch back then. His precision and power were something we’d never seen before and we were in awe.
I honestly think UFC ruined boxing.
Pre-Dana White commercialized ufc was crazy to watch. The same octagon, but with almost no rules meant busted arms, legs, etc.
I remember the first time I saw it (on video, pre-streaming days) and it was far more gruesome than boxing ever was.
I think you’re right that UFC ruined boxing.
Also 20 minute or grappling with very little action followed by somebody tapping out for no reason.
Nah, boxing ruined boxing with their ass-backwards scoring and match decision-making. Look at Mayweather vs Pacquiao, or even Taylor vs Serrano, where that latter clearly had the upper hand in their respective fights, but the decision went to the formers on technicalities and judging particulars. It’s disenchanting to many spectators to see a fight where, betting aside, the majority of people view the fight as going one direction while a small minority place the outcome differently.
I can understand that those things are issues, but to me, boxing is such a boring sport compared to UFC. I would watch boxing pre UFC cause it was all we had. But now it’s just boring.
I can say at least I understand martial arts, even if it’s not my thing, because there’s so much artistry in that and it’s a full body thing whereas boxing is basically just too dudes punching each other. Hit me up when the fighters start using Instant Transmission and Special Beam Cannon and I’ll give it another look
(note - I’m a relative noob for boxing. I attend semi regular classes at a local gym but don’t tend to watch much at all)
Boxing requires a huge depth of skill and not a huge breadth. It’s one of those sports where the basics are 99% of the sport. Definitely makes it seem like 2 dudes just going at each other, but the amount of skill and raw stamina needed to be remotely competitive is insane. Even with gloves, those punches still hurt like a mother fucker and then you’re expected to not only keep going after receiving a few dozen, but expected to dish out your own
Yeah, martial arts makes sense to me. Even (real) wrestling makes sense to me.
I’m sure boxing actually does require a lot of skill, but it just looks like two guys punching each other to me.
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.
For millions of dollars.
Wasn’t Mikey Boi found innocent?
No. He went to prison.
Fuck this year is disappointing.
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
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
I will admit, the whole “It’s no cancel culture, it’s consequence culture!” annoys me
When in reality, we let people learn from their mistakes and grow into better people.
Only a dumbass still thinks Dave Mustaine still gets into drunken fights with Metallica like he did 40+ years ago, but… if the internet had existed back then the
TumblrTwitterwhoever Zeitgeist they’d still label him a monster, and be the only ones.If the Rise and Return of Trump is any indicator, the internet is not indicative of real life.
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.
Wasn’t Mike later found innocent?
No, lol. He was convicted and went to prison for it. That was the reason he served time.
In case you seriously don’t know, Tyson was convicted of rape back in 1992 and served 3? years.
It was at the height of his career and fame.
It was after he was released, when he was fighting for his titles back, that he bit Holyfields ear.
That era was really a downfall of boxing. MMA was gaining popularity and the early, post prison Tyson fights were little more than “show” fights with very poor matchups. This was also when people realized what a piece of shit Don King was.
I was talking about Paul anyway.
Someone beat a rapist. Yay.
Surprise! It was another rapist.
And lemmy celebrates whichever rapist they favour. Sick.
You’re literally the only one here cheering.
