Jake Paul and Tommy Fury
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In case you're not up to date with the latest in the world of boxing, let me tell you about it. There is a YouTube star named Jake Paul that is trying to become a boxer. He has a big mouth, and he is constantly trying to start stuff with real boxers by calling them out. His latest feud is with Tommy Fury, the half brother of Heavyweight champion Tyson Fury, and Jake Paul wants to fight Tommy Fury. In this video, Jake Paul is talking smack to Tommy Fury and Tommy responds by putting on a blonde wig to poke fun at Jake Paul's hair.
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Jake Paul's brother, Logan Paul, is also a YouTube star who is going into boxing. Jake is on the left, and Logan is on the right. It should be noted that Logan Paul has a upcoming fight with Floyd Mayweather Jr.
he was on some stupid disney kids show about 10 years ago
Oh my goodness, former middleweight champion Carl "the cobra" Froch says he hopes the Paul brothers call him out because he will smash them to bits. I remember Carl Froch, he was a beast. Everyone is sick of the Paul brother's big mouths, and now Carl Froch wants a piece of them!
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.the-sun.com/sport/2448979/carl-froch-jake-paul-logan-paul/amp/
i found this on bronco's ipod shuffle
you'll never be able to outrun a bad diet
😂😂😂😂 Five seconds of that is all I could take!
Jake Paul also has a ongoing feud with Canelo Alvarez, the best boxer on the planet. Canelo is the pound for pound king. After Canelo's fight this past weekend, a couple of Jake Paul fans made their way into the ring while Canelo was doing a post fight interview. Canelo told them to get the bleep out of the ring and Jake Paul got upset about it and called Canelo an "old hater". Here's the video of Canelo kicking them out of the ring. You can see them showing off their Jake Paul T-Shirts and Canelo gets irritated.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.tmz.com/2021/03/02/jake-paul-calls-canelo-alvarez-old-hater-kicking-fans-out-of-ring/
Well, the Logan Paul / Mayweather fight went the distance with no knockdowns. I thought about streaming it but didn't. Anyone watch? I saw a few clips, read a little bit about it. Should Mayweather have knocked him out? We know Mayweather's normal style. Opinions?
I didn't watch it either, I read about it and watched the highlights. The fans started booing them both because they wanted to see a knockout. Paul actually hung in there and took some good shots from Mayweather. I figured Mayweather wouldn't knock Paul out, Paul is bigger and weighs a lot more, so I figured a knockout would be difficult.
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Even with the size and weight difference, shouldn't Mayweather have been able to knock him out realistically? I understand that what happened is indicative of Mayweather's style. But in this scenario, knowing what we know about boxing and these two men, couldn't Mayweather knock him out if he wanted to? Am I wrong to feel skeptical of these results?
I think Paul was a bit tougher than people expected. I'll be honest, I don't like either of the Paul brothers, but the truth is, they can fight, they take boxing seriously, they train right, they eat well, and they can actually fight. I don't think Mayweather expected Paul to be as tough as he is. Now, Mayweather has decent power behind his punches, but he's never really been a knockout artist. A lot of his fights are won on out-pointing his opponents, so it doesn't surprise me that someone with a good chin could go the distance with him.
Thanks for the reply. I understand all of that, I just assumed that Mayweather could at least knock him down despite all of that. It makes me think that wasn't his intent.
I think Mayweather was just trying to put on a good show, and he was just in this for the money, he pretty much said that after the fight. He said he got paid $30 million alone for the advertisements on his trunks. He also said he's the best legalized bank robber of all time, but I also think Paul was a bit tougher than he expected.
i watched it. first couple of rounds floyd was feeling him out. paul had a considerably longer reach. obv height and weight too. felt like floyd ropadoped him. by round 4 logan seemed tired. floyd landed a few key punches but also seemed to let paul recover quite a few times the rest of the bout to go the distance. cant stand paul bros. but for him to go the distance w money, carried or not is no small feat.
So he let him recover. I believe that. I would think that is what happened. It seems like he should have been aggressive and gone for a knock down. I understand his style is different.
Here's an article and Mayweather comments on the fight.
Morning Report: Floyd Mayweather ‘wanted to give the people a show,’ says Logan Paul ‘fighting to survive’
The latest combat sports spectacle didn’t end how most people expected. But undefeated former boxing champ Floyd Mayweather declared victory despite going the distance with YouTube star Logan Paul.
With knockouts allowed and 10-ounce gloves in play, Mayweather was expected to toy with the 0-1 Paul before putting him away. But he pointed the finger at Paul for the inconclusive end to the eight-round match.
“I wanted to give the people a show, and he was fighting to survive, as you guys could see,” Mayweather said on Sunday after the pay-per-view event at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Fla. “Every time he would punch, he would clinch. He was the bigger guy, and a little awkward. But his background was in wrestling, so he was good at tying me up. A guy that came in over 200 and some pounds. I came in at 155, but no excuses. I had fun tonight.”
Mayweather was light years better than Paul as a technical boxer, and he landed several punishing shots to the head and body. But he also took more than a few, and he said fans shouldn’t have expected him to steamroll his opponent. Given a possible 40-plus pound disadvantage in weight, there was only so much he could do.
Paul and his younger brother, Jake Paul, appeared happy to take the moral victory on Sunday night. Paul could be overheard on the Showtime pay-per-view broadcast declaring his older brother was beating Mayweather, a claim that prompted one commentator to tell him to shut up.
Mayweather refused to cast his performance as anything other than a win.
“He’s entitled to feel how he wants to feel,” Mayweather said about Jake Paul, who declared on Twitter that the boxing legend was now 50-1. “A guy that’s retired like myself trains a few days a week. I’m not training every day for this. For me to be retired, be a grandfather, and to come have some fun with a guy that’s in his 20s, when the money comes, we’ll see who’s the real winner. Because at the end of the day, I’m going into the Hall of Fame for boxing, and I have nothing to prove.
“If they’re happy with holding eight rounds, dancing and grappling for eight rounds, congratulations,” he added later. “One thing about me, I don’t go back and forth, because we went out there and did what we had to do, and that’s what it is.”
Both Mayweather and Paul are likely to win big when the PPV buyrates are calculated, though provider Showtime suffered mightily to keep up with demand as technical difficulties booted off some viewers.
Asked whether he could have finished Paul at any point, Mayweather indicated the YouTube star’s physical gifts prevented him from doing so.
“He can grapple,” Mayweather said. “He’s good at holding. He’s very good at holding. ... When a guy over 200 pounds is holding you, I’m trying my best, even though I’ve got a lot of experience, it’s hard to get a heavyweight off you. I fight at welterweight, fighting a heavyweight.”
Paul is likely to parlay Sunday’s result into future entertainment projects as his younger brother pursues a professional boxing career and this summer takes on ex-UFC champ Tyron Woodley.
Mayweather, meanwhile, said “probably not” to taking another exhibition fight.
“There’s nothing really I could do,” he said. “As you guys could see, he was putting his leg on the rope. He was fatigued. He’s a great grappler. But I’ve been in this sport for so long, and tonight was letting the people see that I’m able to come out at my age, at 44, and sell out 30,000 and still do crazy numbers to where I can make Showtime crash. So I’m truly blessed, and I’m not here to bash anyone. Of course, at my age, I’m not going to perform like when I was 19. I’m not supposed to. It’s all about growth and aging.
“Is my hair going to be all black forever? Absolutely not. When I get old, it’s going to turn all grey. I understand that. That’s a part of life. Am I going to be able to fight like I fought Diego Corrales and Arturo Gatti? Absolutely not, and I understand that.”
Thanks for sharing the article. I still don't like it. Doesn't feel right to me.
You should have seen Jake Paul in the audience, he was going ballistic, yelling and cussing, saying "50-1". He put on quite a spectacle.
I don't think that Mayweather's explanation is good enough.
Logan Paul actually wore a Charizard BGS 10 card while walking to the ring just before that fight, how soon before we start hearing that its a game worn item? He's already found numerous suckers willing to pay big money for videos of him revealing an individual Pokemon card that he pulled from a pack.
Eric
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And the Jake and Logan Paul custom cards have already started popping up on ebay. Boxing has officially become a full blown circus!
I've been thinking more about it, and I just cannot see any explanation for the outcome of the fight. I don't believe that Mayweather truly gave it everything or tried to knock down Paul. I don't buy his reasoning. Does anyone feel this way? I am actually a little upset by this. It doesn't pass the smell test.
I didn't watch any of this fight but this whole thing feels like this was nothing but a show put on by these two to bring in a payday. Like something drawn up by the Logan Paul side where they promised Floyd a certain payout for "sparring" for eight rounds and afterward they'll make even more money turning this fight into a bunch of NFT's. Mayweather is considered one of the greatest boxers in history and he had a problem beating this guy? I agree,it doesn't pass the smell test.
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The whole Paul brothers saga has become one big circus. Canelo Alvarez posted a laughing emoji on his Twitter account last night in reference to the fight and Jake Paul lashed out at Canelo saying something to the effect of, "You can't sell as many pay-per-views as us, so it's more than likely all about money, I never took this fight seriously, it's too much of a circus type thing, a sideshow.
glad to see others saw it like i did:
https://nypost.com/2021/06/07/suspicious-floyd-mayweather-logan-paul-video-emerges/
Of course it was fixed, of course it was staged, of course he held him upright!
^ perfect!
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