Once again we see the equivalent of a moderately experienced heavyweight boxer vs a scrappy old guy that is not a professional boxer and walks around at 165lbs.
It's kind of entertaining but still a joke.
If anything these Jake Paul bouts should serve as an example of how an actually talented boxer could game his career out and look incredible without every fighting any threats.
Shakur is mad his career isn't unfolding like Tank Davis, but Shakur fights like Demetrius Andrade.
When you fight like Demetrius Andrade, your career is going to look like Demetrius Anrade's.
Wilder's legs were unstable from the opening bell - he looked like Evander Holyfield did in his comeback fight. There is no power when you're shaky in the knees like that.
Debate Wilder's past accomplishments all you want - the fact of the matter is that he's completely shot.
He looked like a guy who had been put in the ring after being awake for three days. Should never step into the ring again.
They have the resources but just not for boxing
They made that quite clear when they canned Friday night Fights
Friday Night Fights was cancelled because no one watched it.
It was averaging less than 400k viewers at the end, with some shows in the 200k viewers range, a 0.1 rating.
ESPN didn't give up on boxing - they'd spent serious money to get the Arreola-Stiverne fight on ESPN.
Fans gave up on FNF
I don't see Xayas holding a world title, but he's still young.
We'll see how things unfold, I think it'll be a few years until they put him in that position.
Tyson-Jones sold 1.6 million PPVs as an exhibition in an era when a million PPVs was thought to be a thing of the past. And no one gives a shit about Roy these days.
To suggest Tyson-Paul will not be one of the biggest events of this era is simple case of denial on your part. It would be bigger than Mayweather-Paul.
Tyson had a medical emergency the other day and had to go to the ER. After some back-and-forth, they postponed it to make sure he had recovered before resuming training/fighting. He's nearly 60 years old and has spent most of the time since he retired doing drugs and binge drinking. His body can't handle anything close to a training camp. He said after that viral video of him hitting the bag, he was in bed for 3 days.
The event, if it happened, would be massive. But going into the ring against Paul could be suicide on Mike's part - too old, too unhealthy. I think ultimately he pulls out and gets replaced.
I love how the commentator spent the whole fight calling every punch thrown by AB, then the second the fight is over they're all like "Broner might have won 2 rounds. And those were close"
Once I lived the life of a millionaire
Spendin' my money, I didn't even care
I took all my friends out for good times
I rode 'em in my Cadillac, bought 'em whiskey, champagne, and wine
But in '54 I began to fall down low
Not a friend, no place to go
And if I ever get my hands on a dollar again
I'm gonna squeeze it, squeeze it till the eagle grins
Nobody knows you when you're down and out
In your pockets not one penny
And your friends, you don't have any
But if I ever get on my feet again
I hope I don't need my lost long friend
It's mighty strange, without a doubt
Nobody knows you when you're down and out
Interesting to see the rust is coming off AB in real time. You see moments from when he was a relevant fighter.
If he had stayed active this whole time, who knows where he'd be today.
Buddy the 1980s was the Mike tyson era. No one was badmouthing boxing back then.
You're obviously young.
They were saying the exact same things people say now - the division is weak, the fights suck, they're nothing compared to fighters of the past.
In the 80s people said Tyson was KOing everyone in the first round because the division was weak. People felt ripped off they'd buy a PPV and it would end in a minute or two. When he lost to Douglas it was "See? He got exposed by a journeyman. He was nothing compared to Foreman, Frazier, Ali."
People also said that about Ali when he was fighting - they'd say Ali was obviously good, but it was a tragedy that the heavyweight division was so weak that they'd never know how good he could be against really good heavyweights.
Such a good era that Jake Paul fighting a senior citizen is going to be a highly viewed fight by casuals :boxing::o
in 1976 Muhammad Ali fought a Japanese wrestler who laid on the ground kicking at him the whole match.
1.4 BILLION people watched it, and were furious how bad it was.
That was a real garbage era too, right?
Older people in the 1980s and 1990s said the same things about boxing then compared to boxing in the 1950s and 1960s.
Older people in the 1950s and 1960s said the same things about boxing then compared to boxing in the 1920s and 1930s.
In 30 years, people will be talking about what an incredible era this was.
Any mix of these 4 would be great:
Jared Anderson
Joseph Parker
Zhelei Zhang
Agit Kabayel
Luis Ortiz also recently came back and got a W… that would be a pretty good stay busy fight.
Whitesnake rules.
Teixeira doing a good job playing the villain role.
Little too old, little too slow to be a threat right now. Punching in slow motion compared to Xayas.
Wilder looked like Evander Holyfield did in his comeback fight - completely unstable on his legs from the opening bell. And without his balance, the power is clearly gone.
He’s shot, absolutely shot. Should never go into the ring again.
I believe there is no PPV. It is a Netflix promotion. The question at hand isn't about PPV buys, my question is, can they fill the stadium?
Put aside my suggestion regarding Tyson's injury and look at the new date (Nov. 15th) they chose.
In regards to your claim it will be massive, I question that validity.
You may be looking at this through a boxing fan's prism. But then again, maybe not. Well see in November.
You didn't address my post except in an irrelevant first sentence regarding PPV buys and then you did what a good fight fan will always do, you talked about the fight itself.
I am looking at the promotional decisions made not the value of the fight itself.
But I stand on my assessment, I think the new date is trying to coat-tail the Monday Night Dalles game.
It seems like you don't know how any of this works, so here we go: Half empty stadiums and arenas turn a profit. So the notion of moving the date because not enough ticket were being sold when Netflix is paying for the event outright is laughable.
Every summer Live Nation books acts into arenas and stadiums that can only fill them part of the way, then "papers" the event - fills the seats with discounted tickets, free tickets, etc. People then come and fill the seats and spend money at the venue. In the end, those acts that only sold a fraction of available tickets make money and so does the venue even without the help of Netflix dropping $40+ million dollars into the pot.
But by all means, continue to stand by your hilarious assessment.
Shot Wilder already beat Helenius, and would probably beat the other guys on that list.
Parker is way ahead of him when you compare recent wins.
Joshua has been slow walked back, but that's a good thing. He'll be full of as much confidence as possible coming into the Dubois fight.