Iron Mike vs Jake Paul

It is quite interesting that Mike Tyson (who I understand had a very difficult childhood) came from humble (if not horrible) beginnings; became a top ranked boxer; spent time in prison for rape; went broke; got out of prison; boxed some more; aged out of competitive boxing; and has become a cultural icon (with him having post boxing success and positive notoriety); and now is going to box again (and likely make a lot of money for doing so).

I wonder what Cus D'Amato; and Mike Tyson's mother would think of him today at 58 years of age?

@stevek said:

@galaxy27 said:
btw i can't believe our resident boxing expert hasn't chimed in to this here convo

we really are in the dog house lol

DD said he was now mostly posting on another forum.

Lemme guess, "Whiners Anonymous" 😉

Good one!

Tyson understands this is entertainment. He'll follow the script regardless of whether the script has him winning or losing, as either outcome guarantees him a nice payday.

Regardless of what you might think about Jake Paul, much like the Kardashians he has a great understanding of coming up with a product that will generate public hype and interest and then marketing it through social media to make hundreds of millions.

Boxing has become almost non-existent over the years. Many of its fans migrated to UFC, which left very little interest in boxing. Jake Paul's publicity stunts have generated more interest in the sport over the years, which does help the sport overall. So again, whatever you might think about Jake Paul, he has had an overwhelmingly positive impact on boxing.

my book has more prop bets on this fight than i care to count

i blew through them but one caught my eye: what part of Paul's body will Tyson bite

his penis was +10000

dead serious

i almost tossed a buck on it. still might

@coolstanley said:
Looks like I wont be able to watch the fight. My netflix keeps freezing up. I will be calling them for a refund.

Yeah, same here - as usual, streaming live just doesn’t work when you get any significant volume. HBO saw it when Game of Thrones was at its peak, but hoped Netflix would have figured it out. Audio is keeping up, but video is frozen. Other Netflix shows streaming just fine, it’s only the fight that’s struggling.

https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/netflix-buffering-streaming-issues-paul-tyson-fight-1236212063/

Not good.

So who won?

To those who didn't see that abomination, consider yourself lucky

30 minutes of my life i wish I had back

Those two stole 60 mil

I think Tyson landed 20 or so punches. That's a little over 2 per round for those scoring at home. He literally went rounds without throwing more than a couple of punches

Total joke that was

This fight can be summed up as...Hey Mike what to make an easy 20M? 🤣

I wouldn't even use Tyson's age as the reason he lost this fight, it looked like he never even made a real attempt at going after Paul. He was barely throwing any punches at all.

@galaxy27 said:
To those who didn't see that abomination, consider yourself lucky

30 minutes of my life i wish I had back

Those two stole 60 mil

I think Tyson landed 20 or so punches. That's a little over 2 per round for those scoring at home. He literally went rounds without throwing more than a couple of punches

Total joke that was

Not just the fight but also the complete abortion of a boxing broadcast by Netflix. i had to exit out of Netflix and restart the app about 40 times tonight.

@coolstanley said:
So who won?

The promoters,boxers.

@perkdog said:
Glad I just bet it it and went to bed, I dropped a $150

Oh well lessons learned lol

hey ya Perkdog...
You Dumped $150 on That Nonsense... Shame... Shame... Shame...

That $150 could have covered a Cherry 🍒 510 🔌🏈...

Now Go and Do 20 Stair Squats... I should have typed 150 Stair Squats...
😭😂🤣🙃

Laters brother...
🦵💪🏋️👍

Glad I didn't pay for that.

Would like to have read the minds of the folks sitting up front that paid big $$ to sit there...

I was disappointed Tyson looked so slow.

The ladies fight was something else. They made the wrong decision but that was way better entertainment than Paul-Tyson.

@erikthredd said:

@FredJRI said:

@erikthredd said:
I wouldn't even use Tyson's age as the reason he lost this fight, it looked like he never even made a real attempt at going after Paul. He was barely throwing any punches at all.

Perhaps he was TIRED ???

Sure,by the end he must have been tired but he didn't lose last night because he was tired. If you watched the three Paul vs Tyson Countdown episodes in the weeks leading up to this fight, there was a stark difference in how Tyson looked in his workouts compared to how he did in that ring when it actually counted.

We came in hoping to see Mike Tyson's Punch Out and we ended up with Mike Tyson's Punch Out,

i dont get it . you backed up your typewriter and whacked a minus sign over an H .
what makes even less sense is when I quoted it there is no longer a minus sign over the H but 2 tildes before the h and 2 after it. 4 tildes! this is unheard of