Tyson vs Paul

[Buka]

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My personal experience with sparring and facial hair is that the gloves slips off my beard. I don't have a thick beard, but I would assume there is some cushion for those with thick beards.

I used to have a close cropped beard. I used to rub a little Vaseline into it at the boxing gym. Once I started to sweat it was like a slip and slide.

 

[JowGaWolf]

Mike did not try to KO Paul nor care to throw many punches while he was down on the score cards.

If a knee injury is bad enough then it will affect mobility. If it's bad enough then you'll move like Tyson did. The jumping around that Tyson appeared to be the type of jumping that one would do when testing out a bad knee. It's like preflight check but for the knee.

 

[JowGaWolf]

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[marvin8]

This is still a money grab. As the promoters of the fight. Ask Netflix. Ask the owner of the statdium. They don't do stuff for free either and they definitely not going to do anything for chump change.

Only charging money is not a money grab, charging unethically under false pretenses is.

There was no luck in it. PPV can't do what Netflix does.

Luckily, Netflix subscribers were able to watch the Paul vs Tyson fight at no extra charge.

 

[Sammy Naur]

I'm with you on this one. He has boxing skills, but he's not officially ranked by an of the boxing associations. If he wants to be seen as a boxer, then that's the path that he will have to take.

This entire discussion about Jake Paul's boxing skills reminds me of Kimbo Slice who was killer backyard fighter and people said the same thing about his fighting skills. But it wasn't until he got into the MMA ring that we understood just how lacking his skills were. Even Kimbo Slice was humbled by that. I think this is the same with Jake Paul.

He said he set out on a mission to be a boxer. Technically he hasn't taken the required step to even be considered a boxer. Right now, he's just someone who can box. When he gets officially ranked or when he tries to climb that ladder then. He can consider himself a boxer.

See this is what I have issue with. He's done exactly what's required to become a ranked boxer, and he's quite good at it nowvs even last year.

He's supposed to be ranked, the WBC has been stalling with this for over a year since Tommy Fury, mostly because of the Tyson exhibition.

He's definitely going to be ranked now, it was already in the works pre-Tyson, and he's unofficially depending on where you look ranked in the low 100s globally

Mauricio Sulaiman said it himself.

https://cw33.com/sports/wbc-president-confirms-jake-paul-is-ready-to-be-entered-into-world-rankings-ahead-of-mike-tyson-fight/

 

[Sammy Naur]

An exhibition fight that is fairly disclosed to the public is not a money grab. Hyping a fight as if both parties are going to try to KO each other however they don't even try or have an agreement not to is an unethical money grab.


Many watched the fight to see if Tyson would KO Paul. Luckily, it was shown via Netflix not PPV. Mike did not try to KO Paul nor care to throw many punches while he was down on the score cards. Tyson vs Jones Jr. was a fairly disclosed fight. Paul vs Tyson seemed to be fixed.

Just for the record those types of reaction videos are part of the problem. That's content created for no other reason than to monetize on some event. People are literally paying those people money by reposting and sharing them.

End of day, it's a legally sanctioned exhibition match. A fix doesn't make sense there, what does make sense is the oddsmakers correctly called Paul the overwhelming favorite, and many people made or lost money.

And since it wasn't PPV and most people do have a Netflix account nowadays, the whole theory of a fix just makes no sense. It was Tysons chance to get back in the ring, and Paul's chance to prove his haters wrong.

And I'm one of his haters so for me to defend his boxing says alot.