• Gingerlegs@lemmy.world
    86·
    25 days ago

    If anyone actually watched the whole thing, Tyson came out hot and Paul had a moment of fear. Then old man got hit a few times and looked like he was about to wobble to the ground.

    I thought it was gonna be fake and scripted. And most of it was. But, the actual fight? Mike came out hot and it was pretty clear Paul could have taken him out a number of times but didn’t. He didn’t want to hurt him.

    Look, I don’t like Jake Paul or Mike Tyson. But, it was a media event. It wasn’t “rigged”

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      25 days ago

      But, it was a media event. It wasn’t “rigged”

      You could gamble on it, which means there was money to be made courting suckers.

      I’m sure the lion’s share of “rigged” proclamations were coming from folks who got baited into bad bets.

    • slaacaa@lemmy.world
      8·
      25 days ago

      Thanks for an actually smart summary. I only watched the first few rounds, then skipped to the end, but I have the same impression.

      Paul was using his head, not wanting kill a 58 yrs old sport legend accidentally. Also, he stayed in distance, to avoid accidentally walking into a stronger punch from Tyson’s shorter arms. The match we have seen is the logical result of these factors, no scripting needed.

      Paul and Tyson made 40 and 20 million from this, 120 million ppl watched live on Netflix, so now the phones will not stop ringing at Paul’s promotion agency to make fights like these happen in the future, as I bet a lot of boxers would love to make money like Tyson did.

  • GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world
    60·
    25 days ago

    The same people who took this seriously are the same people who mock wrestling fans. And wrestling fans could see through this.

  • istdaslol@feddit.org
    40·
    25 days ago

    Fake News, you couldn’t watch the fight on Netflix it was stills between buffers.

    But for real who expect an out of form 60yo to do anything but loose.

    • WaxiestSteam69@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      25 days ago

      The only way we watched is on my wife’s Ipad and it was because we weren’t watching live. We were about 10 minutes behind the live stream. I tried to join on my Google TV and Netflix would crash.

  • doortodeath@lemmy.world
    26·
    25 days ago

    Unpopular opinion i guess but here we go. The event was scripted but not the fight. Mike’s knee was hurt, he came into the fight bandaged and on some videos of him prefight you can see how slow and wobbly he is on his feet. He came in hot but after round two it seems like he hurt his knee. Round 3-8 Mike was basically standing his ground in peekaboo stance and had no real ability to enter the longer reach of Jake who didn’t force an early decision and played it out respectfully while still having to be careful about Mike’s hands. I personally enjoyed the event, we all have this question in some form at some point: “What if this old legend came back into the sport, would he/her be able to compete?”. I didn’t come to watch a carnage, i was curious, how far the legend could push himself at 58 and i got my answer, i was entertained.

  • Babalugats@lemmy.world
    26·
    25 days ago

    Everything about it was shit. Hopefully Netflix will never get a sporting event again. Biased opinions all the way through the fights. Commentators talking about the other fights while fights were happening. During Barrios vs Ramos WBC belt fight, they were talking about the upcoming fights. Their audio went to Holyfields earpiece, later on a mic went. Their servers crashed. Rosie Perez is not ‘the first lady of boxing’ What other commentary there was, was horseshit. Plugging all their shows by zooming in on their ‘celebrity’ crowd. I’m paying premium to watch the boxing. I don’t give a fuck about Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz and their new shit film. Or the two Cobra Kai clowns. Every five minutes. The trailers for the shows just interrupted everything. I couldn’t watch the best fight of the night live because their servers went down.

  • Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    25 days ago

    I don’t see how Paul wins here at all. Either he beats up a 60 year old man or gets beat by a 60 year old man. There’s no way to look good in this.